Introducing the
                                        Global Warming
                                            Wheel Card
                                   Classroom Activity  Kit
                                   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                                 (EPA) presents the Global Wanning Wheel Card
                        Classroom Activity Kit for teachers of grades 6 through 8
              who plan to incorporate the topic of global warming into their
    curriculum. The kit provides resources and activities for using EPA's Global Warming
Wheel Card to educate students about global warming, its sources, and potential impacts.
The activity kit also encourages students to think about ways
to reduce their individual, family, school, and community
contributions to the greenhouse effect.


The Global Warming Wheel Card
Classroom Activity Kit includes:

• A hand-held wheel that provides a quick and easy
  way for students to calculate household greenhouse
  gas emissions

• Instructions for assembling additional wheels

• An introduction for teachers that discusses global warming, its sources and potential
  effects, and the role that greenhouse gases play in warming the Earth's atmosphere

• An introduction for students that discusses the greenhouse effect, how specific human
  activities contribute to it, and the potential impacts on human health and ecosystems

• Three hands-on student activities and one homework assignment explaining global
  warming and encouraging students to think about what they can do in their homes and
  communities to help limit the greenhouse effect

                                  • Steps for students to take in conducting a
                                    simple energy audit of their classrooms to
                                    identify ways to conserve energy

                                  • Notes for the teacher on how to get the most
                                    out of the kit
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                                   For more information about EPA's Global Warming Wheel
                                   Card Classroom Activity Kit, contact Karen Scott,
                                   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at scott.karen@epa.gov or
                                   call (202) 564-3482 or (800) 490-9198.

                                   For more information on calculating greenhouse gas emissions, see
                                   www.epa.gov/globalwarming/tools/calculators.html
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