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Learning Activity: Green Homes
CNN STUDENT NEWS(CNN Student News) -- Students will learn about the key construction and design features that make a house environmentally friendly and energy efficient. ProcedureGroup students and direct them to their local utility companies and online resources to learn about environmentally friendly home-building materials and what makes a home energy efficient. After groups share their findings in class discussion, challenge each group to design and create a model or drawing of a dream green house. Have groups present their creations and discuss the challenges that they faced in designing their homes. Correlated StandardsScience Standards: Life Sciences Standard 6: Understands relationships among organisms and their physical environment Level III Grade: 6-8 Benchmark 5. Knows how matter is recycled within ecosystems (e.g., matter is transferred from one organism to another repeatedly, and between organisms and their physical environment; the total amount of matter remains constant, even though its form and location change) Level IV Grade : 9-12 Benchmark 5. Knows ways in which humans can alter the equilibrium of ecosystems, causing potentially irreversible effects (e.g., human population growth, technology, and consumption; human destruction of habitats through direct harvesting, pollution, and atmospheric changes) McREL: Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (Copyright 2000 McREL) is published online by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks), 2550 S. Parker Road, Suite 500, Aurora, CO 80014. Geography Standard 14: Understands how human actions modify the physical environment Level III Grade : 6-8 Benchmark 1. Understands the environmental consequences of people changing the physical environment (e.g., the effects of ozone depletion, climate change, deforestation, land degradation, soil salinization and acidification, ocean pollution, groundwater-quality decline, using natural wetlands for recreational and housing development) Level IV Grade : 9-12 Benchmark 3. Understands the global impacts of human changes in the physical environment (e.g., increases in runoff and sediment, tropical soil degradation, habitat destruction, air pollution; alterations in the hydrologic cycle; increases in world temperatures; groundwater reduction) McREL: Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (Copyright 2000 McREL) is published online by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks Keywordsenergy efficient, sustainable, renewable resources, building materials, green home 
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