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To grade the students you could go off how much change they have made, with this strategy it is best to not tell the students when they have taken the test the first time so that you can get semi-honest answers. However with this method it is very possible that the students can lie about their amount of change. To help with this the journals can be used as points to see if the performance matches up to what is written.This act of journal keeping as well as the presentation aspect can be referenced into the English outcomes in grade 6, Compose and Create: CC6.1, of the Saskatchewan Curriculum.
As well as Grade 8: Physical Education: PE 8.10, also found at the Saskatchewan Curriculum.
LEWIS: I found this resource as I was perusing the Internets. It is pretty good. Check it out and see if you would like to add it to your section or not.**

http://beyondrecycling.ca/content/x-ecological-footprint - video from home page
http://www.asktheexperts.org.uk/carbon-handprints-the-positive-footprint.html - An article about handprints
https://app.handprinter.org/ - handprinter app
www.handprinter.org - handprinter website (including video)
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/r/rohwedde/ - Rocky Rodwedder's website (with link to video)
http://beyondrecycling.ca/content/my-eco-handprint - handprint website with lesson, powerpoint, and handout
http://www.asktheexperts.org.uk/carbon-handprints-the-positive-footprint.html - quote from handprint page
http://www.sylvatica.com/about/team.php?lang=en - gregory norris bioLesson Plans
http://education.qld.gov.au/curriculum/learning/sustainability/activities.html - Australian website (includes lesson plans)
https://sites.google.com/site/thegreensideofhamlinpride/teacher-links-and-sites - The Green Side of Hamlin Pride (Includes Lesson Plans)
http://www.earthday.org/footprintfaq - Earth Day Network
http://ase.org/Carbon%20FootPrint%20Lesson%20Plan - Lesson Plan: How Big is your Carbon Footprint?
http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ecologicalfootprint/default.asp - Ecological Footprint
http://files.earthday.net/lesson%20plans/bobbybigfoot/ES-MS_What_is_an_EF.pdf - Lesson Plan - Elementary years
http://www.creativechange.net/images/shared/files_that_are_downloaded_by_site_visitors/grade5ecofootunit.pdf - "OUR ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT" Lesson Makeover
Resources
http://beyondrecycling.ca/content/x-ecological-footprint - video from home page
http://www.sonoma.edu/users/r/rohwedde/ - Rocky Rodwedder's website (with link to video)
http://www.sylvatica.com/about/team.php?lang=en - gregory norris bio
http://www.earthday.org/footprintfaq - Earth Day Network
http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ecologicalfootprint/default.asp - Ecological Footprint
http://store.takingitglobal.org/programs/treadlightly/TL-Teacher-Toolkit-V2-EN.pdf - A good resource for Secondary Years
Handprint
http://www.asktheexperts.org.uk/carbon-handprints-the-positive-footprint.html - An article about handprints
https://app.handprinter.org/ - handprinter app
www.handprinter.org - handprinter website (including video)
http://beyondrecycling.ca/content/my-eco-handprint - handprint website with lesson, powerpoint, and handout
http://www.asktheexperts.org.uk/carbon-handprints-the-positive-footprint.html - quote from handprint page

Activities:
This is a website with a Math lesson on calculating Ecological Footprints. It involves statistics and can be modified for any High School Math class.
represented differently.
Students can complete on a project (individually or as a group) that involves researching ecological footprints. Students can determine how different ecological footprints calculators calculate how many hectares or worlds a person uses. They can also determine how different components of the ecological footprint affect the overall total of the calculation.

Students will practice the behaviours of effective viewers
Activities:
communication. For exampleexample, you could have students all make posters what they hadhave to do ecological footprint. Or possibleAnother example is a slide their footprint. Then what could be done isThen, a small paper on at the pictures.pictures could be written. This will able to recogniserecognize nonverbal aids the surface".
Another activity is to complete a research topic on a current event. Have students write an essay explaining how each component of the ecological calculator affects the overall calculation and what they can do to reduce their footprint.

English: the one subject that is included in every single other subject. Below are activities and assignments relating to Ecological Footprints that can have an English focus.
Objectives:
Writing:
Students will write fluently and confidently for a variety of purposes and audiences:
including to:
reflect, clarify, and explore ideas
express understanding
create and entertain
- Write an effective descriptive passage
short story.
- Write social letters in language appropriate for purpose and audience
- Write a convincing argument in support of a clearly defined position
Students will practice the behaviours of effective viewers
Activities:
Using things like power points and posters that include no words and only pictures are an excellent way to have them use nonverbal aids and visual images to enhance communication. For example you could have students all make posters about what they had to do to reduce their ecological footprint. Or possible a slide show where they have to show what they have done, using pictures of themselves, to reduce their footprint. Then what could be done is a small paper on what they learned by just looking at the pictures. This will not only help to understand if the students are able to recognise nonverbal aids as a communication device, but as well it will help the students become more analytical viewers who are able to think deeper about the picture and not just see what's "on the surface".

Activities:
This is a website with a Math lesson on calculating Ecological Footprints. It involves statistics and can be modified for any High School Math class.
a Math 10 or 209, 20, and 30 and can and Mode. This data could be plotted using various graphs to show students how data can be represented differently.
Students can complete on a project (individually or as a group) that involves researching ecological footprints. Students can determine how different ecological footprints calculators calculate how many hectares or worlds a person uses. They can also determine how different components of the ecological footprint affect the overall total of the calculation.

Math and teaching about the Ecological Footprint go hand in hand. Below are various activities to teach both areas.
Objectives:
Grade 9:
SP9.1
Demonstrate understanding of the effect of:
bias
use of language
ethics
cost
time and timing
privacy
cultural sensitivity and
population or sample
on data collection. [C, PS, R, T]
Grade 11:
FM20.1
Demonstrate understanding of the mathematics involved in an historical event or an area of interest. [C, CN, ME, PS, R, T, V]
WA20.11
Extend and apply understanding of representing data using graphs including:
bar graphs
histograms
line graphs
circle graphs.
[C, CN, PS, R, T, V]
Grade 12:
FM30.8
Research and give a presentation of a current event or an area of interest that requires data collection and analysis. [C, CN, ME, PS, R, T, V]
WA30.9
Extend and apply understanding of measures of central tendency to solve problems including: mean median mode weighted mean trimmed mean. [C, CN, PS, R]
Activities:
This is a website with a Math lesson on calculating Ecological Footprints. It involves statistics and can be modified for any High School Math class.

To grade the students you could go off how much change they have made, with this strategy it is best to not tell the students when they have taken the test the first time so that you can get semi-honest answers. However with this method it is very possible that the students can lie about their amount of change. To help with this the journals can be used as points to see if the performance matches up to what is written.This act of journal keeping as well as the presentation aspect can be referenced into the English outcomes in grade 6, Compose and Create: CC6.1, of the Saskatchewan Curriculum.
As well as Grade 8: Physical Education: PE 8.10, also found at the Saskatchewan Curriculum.
LEWIS: I found this resource as I was perusing the Internets. It is pretty good. Check it out and see if you would like to add it to your section or not.**