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.

How do Humans Affect the Environment 1.1

The way we chose to live our lives have affected things such as: Climate change, extinction of species pollution of life-supporting air 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.

Activity one:
Split into pairs, create spider grams showing how you think:
1.1 Human behaviours which harms the environment 1.2 Human behaviours which helps the environment.

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 lifesupporting air and water One of the reasons why our climate is changing is because man-made chemicals are being released in the atmosphere. Some toxins are absorbed down and reach the ground water and pollute it to the extent that it can't be used by animals/human beings for drinking or cooking.

What is Global Warming?

Global warming refers to an average increase in the Earth's
temperature, which in turn causes changes in climate. A warmer Earth may lead to changes in rainfall patterns, a rise in sea level, and a wide range of impacts on plants, wildlife, and humans. When scientists talk about the issue of climate change, their concern is about global warming caused by human activities.

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

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

Our rubbish Versus Our Environment

Producing, distributing, storing and cooking food uses energy, fuel and water. Each of these emits greenhouse gases contributing to climate change. Think of a pack of cheese. The resources that go into raising the cows, processing the milk, transporting the cheese, refrigeration, the fuel we use to drive to the shop to buy it - all this to put it in the bin at the end of the week.

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

three million slices of cheese a day! Pardon! What's, that then? , I love cheese! What a waste tut, tut!

Once a week the bin lorry comes to your house to empty your wheelie bin. The bin lorry takes all the rubbish to the landfill site. The landfill site is a big hole in the ground, and all the rubbish in the big lorry gets dumped into it.

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. Also, it t wouldn't be very nice if a new landfill site was opened near your house, would it??!

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 with children, the equivalent of around 50 a month

If we all stop wasting food that could have been eaten, the benefit to the planet would be the same as taking 1 in 5 cars off the road!

The amount of rubbish is increasing and costing more to get rid of, which you will have to fund through your taxes!

Each person produces 100 bags of rubbish every year & it's increasing!

Landfills are usually holes left over from quarries. We dont have to dig new holes.

We have to put our rubbish somewher e.

Landfill is a cheap and easy option! Some of the waste will take hundreds, even thousands of years to rot away.

Landfill produces a type of gas called methane which can be explosive and damages the environment.

Many of the landfill holes will soon be full.

We soon need to find new landfills to use.

I dont want to live near a landfill, they are dirty, smelly and noisy.

Entry Level 3
Challenge 1.1 Give examples of human behaviours which harm the environment

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Entry Level 3 Entry Level 3

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Entry Level 3
Challenge 1.2 Give examples of human behaviours which help the environment

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Activity Two
Complete Challenge Two in your work book, choosing issues which are relevant to you and say how they are relevant in your life and the effect they are having on you. Use pictures provided or research your own.

Here are some words to help :

Transport car litter Carbon Dioxide rubbish Climate Change Pollution Industrial processes. Animal Extinction waste Water Pollution harms Ozone

Environment

Pollute Health

What images could you use

to create your
own poster

Name_____________________________ _________

Date_______________

Homework

Activity 1
For this activity YOU NEED: Your family's garbage! DO THIS: 1. Count the number of bags of garbage your family throws out in one week. Write it here: _______ 2. Add all of the bags for the whole class: ________ 3. Color one trash bag on the next page for every bag your class throws out. TALK ABOUT: How many weeks are there in a year? ________ How big would the heap be after a year? CONCLUSION:

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Name_____________________________ _________

Date_______________

Total amount of trash a week within our group is _________

Clean Energy

To successfully combat climate change, people will have to switch from getting most of their energy from burning fossil fuels to getting most of their energy from a wide variety of clean energy sources.

Use Less Energy Power down. Did you know that some appliances and electronics plugged into an outlet still use power, even when they're turned off? Unplug energy vampires like video game consoles, cell phone chargers, and MP3 players whenever you can. Or consider buying a smart power strip,

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

Travel Green Cars, trucks, airplanes, and other kinds of vehicles are responsible for about onethird of the greenhouse gas emissions. Smart transportation choices can make a big impact on reducing emissions. Here are some ways people can help their environment.

Walk, bike, skateboard, rollerblade, or take a bus to school. Give the car a break. Family could to make one big trip to run all their errands at once, instead of making lots of small trips. Sharing rides with others, and use public transportation like buses or trains whenever they can. Use buying power When it's time to buy a new car, choose one that's fuelefficient or electric. Using less gas, reduce emissions, and save money. Don't be idle. Running the engine burns fuel, running idle, not only wastes gasoline, but also produces greenhouse gases and other kinds of air pollution,

Reduce Waste
Most people don't realize that reducing, reusing, and recycling can help slow climate change. How? To begin with, every product has a life cycle, and every stepfrom manufacturing to disposalleads to greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing, reusing, and recycling means you buy (and throw away) less stuff, and that helps reduce the amount of greenhouse gases we're adding to the atmosphere.

Environmental Awareness

Turn to your workbook and complete the following task:

Your task: Using your research skills you are required to investigate into possible activities in the local area that we could do to help the environment. Record your findings below.

Try to find 3 different activities.

Activity 1 What could we do? Where could we do this?

How would this help the environment?

Name_____________________________ _________

Date_______________

Activity 2 : Colour in / or design a own poster that could be contributed around the college. Help other people be aware of making a positive contribution to help our environment.

Come on Gromit, no time to lose!. We have to a planet to save!!!!!

Take Part In An Activity In Your Local Area Idea

Teach your school the three R's. Activity
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,

Excellent work........

You have now completed t Unit

Environmental Awareness

Congratulations and Well Done!!!

LET'S SEE: How can we reuse things that we used to think of as trash? YOU NEED: 1 paper grocery bag Rubbish Scissors Paint Glue tape Your imagination DO THIS: 1. Make a mask out of the bag. It can be a mask for Halloween 2. Find out how much a Halloween mask costs to buy: _______ 3. How much did your mask cost to make: ________ CONCLUSION: Making my mask costs____________( more/Less) and ____________(is/is not) better for the earth than buying a mask