Calculate Your Carbon Footprint

• This interactive carbon footprint calculator provides data for the carbon dioxide and methane emissions associated with travel habits, home energy use, food choices, and shopping habits.
• Students answer questions about their habits and household to get an estimate of the emissions produced from daily life.

Positives

• This calculator provides a number of different metrics that can be changed and customized to see the relative impact of different choices on carbon emissions.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students will need access to a computer with Internet access to use the calculator tool.
• Younger students will likely need to ask a parent or guardian about some of the information in the questions to complete the assessment.
  

Differentiation

• Economics and social studies classes could discuss ways to incentivize choices that reduce carbon emissions and provide more equal access to sustainable food, transportation, and energy.
• Math classes could use this tool to calculate which actions are are most effective at reducing emissions.
  
• Science and biology classes could use this calculator to see the many sources of greenhouse gas emissions and use this foodprint calculator to get more details on emissions from food.
• Other helpful resources to consider using include an StC lesson on foodprints, an StC lesson on carbon footprints, and this table of solutions to climate change.