Eco-ED Module
Title_________A Green Future______________
Module Leader(s):
(name)
Short Description:
(Include brochure
information on pages
following this chart.)
EcoEd Concept(s): (list)
EcoEd Literacy Goal(s):
(list)
Intended Grade(s):
(circle)
Module Objectives:
(list)
Dan Fancher
Students will design their own green city based on an extensive list of
renewable energy technologies in the future after learning about fossil
fuel history, renewable energies, and green cities. The primary goal is to
give children a chance to design their own world that is no longer
dependent on fossil fuels.
-Green cities
-Renewable energies
-Green living
-imagining positive change for the
-Fossil fuel dependence
environment and humans
People understanding their own health and wellbeing as shaped by an array of
both proximate and far-off causes. Diet and cigarette smoke need to be
considered, for example, as well as the health effects of transboundary air
pollution and climate change.
People understanding that their own actions have an array of proximate and far
off effects. In choosing when and what to drive, one has an affect on air quality
for example.
People understanding (though familiarity with historical and cross-cultural
examples, for instance) potential for change, and alterative ways of doing things
and organizing society.
1-3
4-5
6-8
At the end of this students will be able to:
List possible renewable energies and how they can be used to remove
fossil fuel dependency.
Understand how cities can be made in ways that protect the
environment and humans.
Materials needed:
(list)
Timeline:
Activity Description:
(Provide enough detail so
that someone else could
run the workshop.
Include worksheets on
Be creative about how the future could be.
-Paper
- computer
- colored pencils or crayons
- projector
ex:
Question and answer period about
0-5 minutes
prior knowledge
5-30 minutes
Videos
30-40 minutes
Define concepts, green
transportation, and green energy.
Discuss.
40-120 minutes
Drawings and essay
ex:
Part 1 – Open the class by asking what students know about energy
problems, renewable energy, and green technology.
Part 2 – Videos
1
pages following this
chart.)
Parent/Guardian Follow
Up: (Can be an email or
take home sheet. If it is
an email include text
here. If it is a take home
sheet include on pages
following this chart.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj8geIqqrsc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV9K7K-Uax4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMFnmpNsaqg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsIzkyWb7UE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2A2x1Wyhk&feature=related
Part 3 – Students will design their own future green city based on an
extensive list of renewable energy technologies. This project will be
represented by hand drawn pictures accompanied by a short essay to
describe how their world of the future is better than the current one
through the use of more environmentally safe technologies. The only
requirement is that students wean the world off fossil fuels and imagine
some utopian green future in which future generations are better off.
ex:
Dear Parent/ Guardian,
Your student recently participated in an environmental education
program about future green cities and renewable technologies. Your
student designed and narrated a world in which the world is weaned off
the use of fossil fuels in a positive way as to provide for their own
personal dream cities and lifestyles of the future. Your child should be
able to list possible renewable energies, a short history of fossil fuels,
and describe aspects that green community life and culture. Here are
the films that helped lead to your child’s green future design:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj8geIqqrsc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV9K7K-Uax4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMFnmpNsaqg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsIzkyWb7UE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O2A2x1Wyhk&feature=related
Thanks you for your participation,
RPI EcoEd
**Attachments: TOC of attachments, brochure, worksheets, readings, other course material, take home
materials
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Using the concepts below and your own persona ideas, design a green city or world of the future in which
fossil fuels no longer provide the energy that fuels everything. This new city should take into account the
health of the environment and human impacts on it. Draw a picture of some part of your green city and
write an essay that includes the concepts below. The essay should be at least 500 words.
Concepts: decentralization, redundant systems, local economies, green roofs, vertical farms
Green transportation: trains, subways, bikes, electric vehicles, walking
Green energy: solar panels, vertical and horizontal wind turbines, hydrogen fuel cells, biomass, biofuels,
water turbines, hydropower,
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