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Environmental Lessons & Activities

Reduce Your Ecological Footprint Poster Project

Topic: All
Grade: Intermediate/Senior

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With a partner of your choice, you will design and make a poster telling people how they can reduce the size of their ecological footprint. View PDF samples of other students' work, sample 1, sample 2, sample 3, sample 4.

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Choose a partner (you may work alone)
  2. Choose one section of the ecological footprint questionnaire found at http://www.rco.on.ca/ecofootprint.html (courtesy of The Recycling Council of Ontario) to focus on either:
    • Housing
    • Food
    • Transportation
    • Purchases OR
    • Waste
  3. Design IN PENCIL a poster that tells people how they can reduce their ecological footprint in that section.
  4. Colour and draw your poster and hand it in.

You will be marked on:

Application
- Does your poster tell people how to improve their ecological footprint?
Communication
- Is the poster neat, with proper spelling and grammar?
Thinking and Inquiry
- Is the poster original and creative?