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11 3 Unit 4 Lesson 1

What are greenhouse gas emissions and how does the amount relate to car fuel type

QUESTION:  What are greenhouse gas emissions and how does the amount relate to car fuel type?

Learning Objectives:

  • Explore your greenhouse gas emissions using the carbon calculator
  • Investigate the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions using graphs and charts
  • Examine average carbon dioxide emissions of different cars and fuels
  • Model human greenhouse gas emissions

Warm-up:

  • Attendance & New Seats
  • Open Student IMT Unit 4, make a copy, and save it to your drive. 
  • Write down the question for the day and complete the wonderings section for Lesson 1.  

IN-CLASS WORK:

  • Open L4.1 student sheet, (Honors) make a copy and save it to your drive. 
  • Review L4.1 and complete all parts of the IMT for lesson 1.

OUT-OF-CLASS WORK:

  • Complete and submit student sheet L4.1.
  • Complete Edpuzzle on combustion

L4.1 Student Sheet

Lesson 4.1: What are greenhouse gas emissions and how does the amount relate to car fuel type?

INTRODUCTION:

  1. Open up the IMT for this unit, make a copy and fill in the question and wondering for lesson 1

PREVIEW:

  1. Watch the entire video on New York Cities-Greenhouse Gas Emissions (3:12).

  2. What do you think is going on here?

  3. What does one blue sphere represent?

  4. What is inaccurate about this representation?

  5. How do you think weather (such as wind or rain) would affect this simulation?

B. Now open the Carbon Calculator:

  1. What was your score?

  2. How does your score compare to other students?

  3. What do you feel about your score?

  4. Do you want to make your score higher, how might you do this?

INVESTIGATION:

  1. Examine Figure ES-14: US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allocated to Economic Sectors. What do you notice? 

What do you think about what you notice?

What can you conclude from what you observed? 

  1. Examine the NYT Interactive Map of Transportation Emissions in your area, look at Austin TX, and at least two areas of your choice (a place you have visited or are curious about) List all the cities you investigated:  

What do you notice? 

What do you think about what you notice?

What can you conclude from what you observed? 

  1. Examine the bar graph of 2017 US CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel combustion by Fuel Type and End-Use Sector.3.  What do you notice? 

What do you think about what you notice?

What can you conclude from what you observed? 

  1. Examine the document: Average CO2 emissions by car type. What do you notice? 

What do you think about what you notice?

What can you conclude from what you observed? 

  1. Examine the document US transportation energy sources/fuels, 2019. What do you notice? 

What do you think about what you notice?

What can you conclude from what you observed? 

  1. Examine the document: Energy and CO2 emissions per fuel type. What do you notice?  What do you think about what you notice?

  2. Describe the general pattern you see in the data for Energy and CO2 emissions per fuel type. 

  3. What do all of these fuels have in common?

  4. How are they different?  FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS:

  5. What is a big takeaway from the data we looked at today that helps us think about what we could do to reduce CO2 emissions from transportation?

  6. Demonstrate your thinking.

Modeling human greenhouse gas emissions, CO2 (use the space below for brainstorming)

NEXT STEPS:

  1. Reflect on today’s question: What are greenhouse gas emissions and how does it relate to car fuel type? 

  2. Open up the IMT for this unit, complete all boxes for lesson 1

  3. Make sure all parts of the L4.1 student sheet are complete & complete the edpuzzle on schoology.**

Last update: June 5, 2023
Created: June 5, 2023