Teaching Today, Creating a Better Tomorrow

Being knowledgeable about my own ecological identity will help me to provide my students with awareness of their own ecological identity. One thing I will ensure I do for all students is help them find their own ecological footprint. With this knowledge they will be able to see how their actions, big or small, affect the place they live. We will also find our classroom ecological footprint, as we are our own community. We will work as a classroom together to improve our ecological footprint. I will encourage students to make changes for their own personal ecological footprint as well as the community they live in. I want the mindset to be clear about their own ecological identity and that no action is too small to make a difference in the outcome of tomorrow. They are a part of the ecosystem and they are part of the outcome. For a better tomorrow we need to act today.

Classroom Activities:

·        Students writing a personal story of an ecological irresponsibility, possibility causing students to feel guilt and develop a sense of responsibility for the earth resources.

·        Calculate their ecological footprint. (own, classroom, or community)

·        Planting a classroom garden, students working together to create food for the community.

·        Adopting a highway, cleaning up trash and making the community a cleaner place.

·        Creating a school plan on how to reduce waste, trying to make the school more ecologically responsible

·        A daily or weekly activity allowing students to come up with one way in which they interacted with their ecosystem recently.