1. Warmup Do populations grow to infinity? Why not?
Name three things that could limit the growth of a population.

2. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
2.8.4a Explain how ecological footprints exist at the personal level and extend to larger scales.
2.8.4b Evaluate personal choices in terms of impacts on availability of natural resources and environmental quality; relate this to ecological footprints on various scales.
2.8.4c Evaluate the impact of implementing change that adheres to the "reduce, reuse, recycle" philosophy (e.g. through case studies, data collection/analysis, model development, etc.).

3. Activity: Ecological Footprint
Working with a partner, fill out the summary of what an ecological footprint is.
These are your notes for this objective!
Make sure each of you have a copy!
Answer the 5 questions.
Calculate your ecological footprint using the questions on the back of your worksheet.
Who has the lower footprint?
Try to match each country’s average ecological footprint per person.
Why are some countries lower than others?

4. 5. Housing Footprint: 9. Mobility Footprint 2150 sqft 4 points
More than 81 miles 3 points
31-80mi points
15-30 mi points
1-14 mi points
points
12. Mobility Footprint
52 mpg 0 points
35 mpg 0.1 points
26 mpg 1 point
16 mpg 2 points
Less than 16 mpg 4 points

5. Video: Landfill Harmonic
Paraguay
3 minutes
Then, longer video.
No Impact Man (Living Sustainably)
Bag It (Lifecycle of Trash)
Wasteland (Trash to treasure in Brazil landfill)
Dump! (Inside the art of dumpster diving)

6. Activity: Poster
Create an attractive poster to persuade people to reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Be sure to include the impacts of their actions.

7. Warmup
What are the steps to making recycled paper?

8. Article Reports (Current)
Name of the article
Author
Date of article (publication – past year)
What objective does this article address?
Summarize the article (in your own words)
(Big points) What is the impact of this event? What did we learn? What should we change? Why does it matter? What do you think about it???

9. Warmup
What materials can be recycled at school? Where can you recycle each one?
Why do we recycle?