GREEN LIVING SCIENCE PROJECT

Step One: Class Video and Discussion - Questions to answer together - What is the
Anthropocene?

What is Biodiversity? Why is Biodiversity important? How can we reduce our human impact on
the Earth?

Step Two: Work independently to create a Green Living List that highlights at least 10 eco
friendly choices YOU can make to reduce your impact on the Earth .

See Example: Ms Kristie’s Green Living Commitments.

TIP: online word search options could include green living, eco friendly, environment friendly,
enviro conscious, environment safe, eco-conscious.

Step Three: Integrate ART into this activity by creating a collage of pictures with text that
represent your commitment for Green Living.

Adobe Spark or Google Slides can be used to create a digital poster.

PROJECT EXPECTATIONS (20 marks total): Your project should include at least 10 eco
friendly choices represented as pictures with some text (10 marks); be a digital representation (2
marks); Be colourful and neatly organized (3 marks); Include at least 2 different elements of
design (line, shape/form, space, colour, texture, value) (2 marks); Be a creative design that
represents your commitment to take care of the Earth (3 marks) .

https://youtu.be/0Puv0Pss33M
MS.KRISTIE’S GREEN LIVING COMMITMENT
• Hang my clothes to dry
• Use cold water to wash laundry
• Turn out the lights when I’m not in a room
• Use sunlight as your light during the day
• Turn off my taps
• Fix leaky taps
• Bike as much as I CAN
• Buy a fuel efficient or an electric car
• Shop secondhand
• Buy environmentally safe cleaning and washing products OR make my own
• Upcycle and Recycle
• Compost
• ReUSE
• Fix it instead of buying new or putting it in the garbage
• Improve household energy efficiency - replace bathroom and kitchen windows and insulate walls
• Don’t waste food - Eat leftovers
• Eat less meat
• Use wooden toothbrushes and paper based care products
• Don’t buy food packaged in plastic (wrapping, bottles or containers)
• Eliminate plastic bags, plastic bottles and straws
• Shop with reusable bags
• Grow a garden
• Buy local - support local business and growers
• Pickup garbage in the forest. on the street and in the water
• Spend time in nature - Take Pictures and Only Leave Footprints
• Learn my environmental footprint and reduce it
• Think Before I Buy - Think Before I Waste
• Educate myself and others around me such as What happens to garbage? Food Waste, Plastic Waste,
Electronic Waste, Clothing Waste, Following the Recycling trail in my community/in Canada.
Ms.Kristie’s GREEN LIVING ART (Digital Poster created in Adobe Spark)

Elements of Design used 1) Colour - vibrance to invite the audience in 2) Shape/Form - font
to highlight the impact of our Waste on the environment.