| Idle-Free Teacher's Resource Kit
The Idle-Free Teacher's Resource Kit is now available for download! Created in partnership with the Children's Clean Air Network and sponsored by Conserve Nova Scotia, the kit provides curriculum-linked lesson plans and activities to integrate into your classroom teaching.
The kit is posted in pieces so that the files are smaller for fast download. Scroll down for additional resources and activities.
Introduction and Background | Grade 4 Lessons | Grade 5 Lessons | Grade 6 Lessons | Action Plan
Climate change and air quality are environmental issues that affect everyone. Eliminating engine idling is one big step we can take that will reap benefits of reduced greenhouse gas and pollution emissions. It's important that children understand this connection at an early age so they can influence the adults and lay the foundation for their own driving behaviours later in life.
Idling lessons present a real-life opportunity to teach math, chemistry, health and environment, while creating analytical, civic-minded students.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Kit ii
- Acknowledgements ii
- Background Information on Idling 1
- Idling and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand 1
- Health Impacts of Idling 1
- Idling wastes fuel and money 2
- News flash! Idling is not good for your engine 2
- 19 fast facts about idling 3
- Grade 4 Lesson Plan 5
- Lesson 1: Habitat Destruction in Pacific Coho Salmon 5
- Grade 5 Lesson Plans 15
- Lesson 1: Weather and the Atmosphere 15
- Lesson 2: Creating carbon dioxide gas from a liquid and a solid 17
- Lesson 3: Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect 20
- Lesson 4: Fossil Fuels and Our Health/Lung Function 24
- Grade 6 Lesson Plans 30
- Lesson 1: What is Electricity? 30
- Lesson 2: Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy Sources 35
- Lesson 3: Decreasing our use of Energy in and around the School 45
- Action Plan for Creating an Idle-free School 46
- Grade 4 Action Plan 46
- Grade 5 Action Plan 47
- Making idling observations 49
- Creating a School-Wide Action Plan 49
- Grade 6 Action Plan 50
- Key Points for Writing Powerful Letters 52
- Idle-free Questions 53
- Measuring Idling Time 54
- Comparing Idling Times 55
- Countdown to Reduced Idling 56
Additional Resources and Activities:
For more information on idling or fuel efficiency, visit http://www.drivewiser.ca/, or the Children's Clean Air Network, http://childrencan.blogspot.com/. |
