What is Environmental Awarness and Activities

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Aims and objectives for this unit:

1.1 To identify human behaviours which harms the environment.

1.2 To identify human behaviours which helps the environment.

2.1 Identify two environmental issue which is relevant to your

lives.

2.2 Identify the effects that these issues have on your lives.

3.1 Identify an activity that you can carry out to improve the

environment in your local area.

3.2 Take part in an activity in your local area.


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he way we chose to live our lives have affected things such as:

Climate change,

extinction of species

pollution of life-supportingair and water

This has become a growing concern for nations all over the

world. Years of thoughtless exploitation of nature by man

has resulted in putting even our own survival at stake.

How do Humans Affect the Environmen

1.1


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Activity one:

plit into pairs, create spider grams showing how

ou think:

1.2 Human behaviours which helps the environment.

1.1 Human behaviours which harms the environment


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What is Climate Change

Climate change is a change in long-term weather patterns.

They can become warmer or colder.Annual amounts of rainfall or snowfall can increase or decrease.

Climate change causes extinction of species, and pollution of life-

upporting air and water

One of the reasons why our climate is changing is because man-made

hemicals are being released in the atmosphere.

Some toxins are absorbed down and reach the ground water and

ollute it to the extent that it can't be used by animals/human beings

or drinking or cooking.


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What is Global Warming?

lobal warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's

emperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer Eart

ay lead to changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide

ange of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. When scientists talk

bout the issue of climate change, their concern is about global

arming caused by human activities.

Many of the world's leading climate scientists think that thingspeople do are helping to make the Earth warmer.

Watch this video http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html
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Our rubbish

Versus

Our Environmentroducing, distributing, storing and cooking food uses energy, fue

nd water. Each of these emits greenhouse gases contributing to

imate change.

Think of a pack of cheese. The resources that go into raising the

ows, processing the milk, transporting the cheese, refrigeration,

e fuel we use to drive to the shop to buy it - all this to put it in

e bin at the end of the week.

n fact in the UK we throw away the equivalent of more than

hree million slices of cheese a day!

Pardon! What's,

that then? , I

love cheese!

What a waste

tut, tut!


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nce a week the bin lorry comes to your house to empty your

heelie bin. The bin lorry takes all the rubbish to the landfill

te. The landfill site is a big hole in the ground, and all the

ubbish in the big lorry gets dumped into it.


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Diggers spread out the rubbish and squash it

all down to make room for more rubbish. Once

it is full up, it is covered with soil to hide it.

The problem is, all our landfill sites are

getting fuller and fuller, and soon we will

need some new ones. Landfills are ugly,smelly and dangerous and contributing to

climate change.

lso, it t wouldn't beery nice if a new

andfill site was opened

ear your house, would

??!


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Did your know 50% of the

total amount of food thrown

away in the UK comes from

our homes. We throw away

7.2 million tons of food and

drink from our homes every

year in the UK, and more

than half of this food and

drink we could have eaten

Wasting this food costs

the average household

480 a year, raising to

680 for a family withchildren, the equivalent of

around 50 a month


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f we all stop wasting food that could have

een eaten, the benefit to the planet would be

he same as taking 1 in 5 cars off the road!


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The amount of rubbish is increasing and

costing more to get rid of, which you willhave to fund through your taxes!

Each person

produces 100 bags of

rubbish every year &

it's increasing!


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Many of

the landfillholes will

soon be

full.

I dont

want to

live near a

landfill,

they are

dirty,smelly and

noisy.

Landfill

produces a

type of gascalled methane

which can be

explosive and

damages the

environment.

We soon needto find new

landfills to use.


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ntry Level 3

hallenge

1 Give examples of human behaviours which harm the environment

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ntry Level 3

hallenge

1 Give examples of human behaviours which harm the environment

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Entry Level 3

Challenge

1.1 Give examples of human behaviours which harm the environment

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ntry Level 3

hallenge

2 Give examples of human behaviours which help the environment

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Industrial processes.

Activity Two

omplete Challenge Two in your work book, choosing

ssues which are relevant to you and say how they are

elevant in your life and the effect they are having on

ou.

se pictures provided or research your own.

Transport

Water Pollution

Animal Extinction

ere are some words to help :

Climate ChangeEnvironment

harms Ozone

Health

Carbon Dioxide

PollutePollution

waste

litter

car

rubbish


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What imagescould you use

to create your

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Homeworkctivity 1

or this activity YOU NEED:our family's garbage!

O THIS:Count the number of bags of garbage your family throws out in oneweek.

Write it here: _______

. Add all of the bags for the whole class: ________

Color one trash bag on the next page for every bag your classhrows out.

ALK ABOUT:ow many weeks are there in a year? ________

ow big would the heap be after a year?

ONCLUSION:________________________________________________________

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ame_____________________________ _________ Date______________


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Total amount of trash a week within our group is _________

ame_____________________________ _________ Date______________


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o successfully combat climate change, people will have towitch from getting most of their energy from burning fossil

uels to getting most of their energy from a wide variety of

ean energy sources.

Clean Energy


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Use Less Energy

ower down.

id you know that some appliances and electronics plugged into an

utlet still use power, even when they're turned off? Unplug energy

ampires like video game consoles, cell phone chargers, and MP3

ayers whenever you can. Or consider buying a smart power strip,

hich automatically cuts off power when you turn off an appliance.


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ravel Green

ars, trucks, airplanes, and other kinds of vehicles areesponsible for about onethird of the greenhouse gas

missions. Smart transportation choices can make a big impac

n reducing emissions.

ere are some ways people can help their environment.

Walk, bike, skateboard, rollerblade, or take a bus to school.ive the car a break.Family could to make one big trip to run all their errands at once,stead of making lots of small trips.

Sharing rides with others, and use public transportation like buses orains whenever they can.

se buying powerWhen it's time to buy a new car, choose one that's fuelefficient orectric. Using less gas, reduce emissions, and save money.

Don't be idle.Running the engine burns fuel, running idle, not only wastes gasoline,ut also produces greenhouse gases and other kinds of air pollution,


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educe Waste

ost people don't realize that reducing, reusing, and recycling can

elp slow climate change. How?

o begin with, every product has a life cycle, and every stepfrom

anufacturing to disposal

leads to greenhouse gas emissions.educing, reusing, and recycling means you buy (and throw away) less

tuff, and that helps reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we're

dding to the atmosphere.


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our task:

sing your research skills you are required to investigate into possibl

ctivities in the local area that we could do to help the environment.

ecord your findings below.

ry to find 3 different activities.

nvironmental Awareness

ctivity 1

What could we do?

Where could we do this?

ow would this help the environment?

Turn to your workbook and complete thefollowing task:


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ctivity 2 :

olour in / or design a own poster that could be contributedround the college. Help other people be aware of making a

ositive contribution to help our environment.

ame_____________________________ _________ Date______________

Come on Gromit,

no time to lose!.

We have to a

planet to save!!!!!


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Take Part In An Activity In Your Local

Area Idea

Teach your school the three R's.

We are going to hold a presentation at college, inviting students

and staff to educate them about the three Rs.

Schools can save energy, preserve natural resources, and prevent

greenhouse gas emissions by reducing, reusing, and recycling,

Activity


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Excellent work........

You have now completed t Unit

Environmental Awareness

Congratulations and Well Done!!!


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ET'S SEE:

ow can we reuse things that we used to think of as trash?

OU NEED:paper grocery bagubbishcissorsaintue

ape

our imagination

O THIS:Make a mask out of the bag. It can be a mask for Halloween

. Find out how much a Halloween mask costs to buy: _______

How much did your mask cost to make: ________

ONCLUSION:

aking my mask costs____________( more/Less) and___________(is/is not) better for the earth than buying a mask

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