Students will use these scores to determine their Footprints. 5. Next, groups of students will complete a core activity for each one the five footprint areas. For example, in examining their Water Footprints, students will conduct a two day survey of water use in their homes, graph the data and then develop ways to reduce water consumption at home. And, when examining their Garbage Footprints, students will categorize their garbage, describe the varieties of packaging, and then determine percentages of packaging materials. In each of the footprint areas, students look at themselves, represent their findings in a graphic manner, and then generate a way to reduce their personal Footprints.
Emphasis is on practical and viable solutions.
Students will then synthesize what they have learned in order to generate, execute and evaluate their own EcoPlans. In doing so, they will select an action for environmental change, map a plan of how to do it, conduct it, evaluate it and then share it with the rest of the class. Individual plans will be collated into a multimedia laptop presentation for the Gilbert Public School District and Gilbert's City Council. Outcomes Footprints in the Desert strives to create students who care about the natural environment and take pragmatic steps to protect it. The students will make personal choices to reduce their own ecological impact and take constructive action to reduce it on a societal scale.