Trends,Networks, and

Critical Thinking in the

21st Century
Quarter 1– Module 15:
My Carbon Footprint
Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21st Century
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 1 – Module 15: My Carbon Footprint

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 Trends,Networks, and
Critical Thinking in the
21st Century
Quarter 1– Module 15:
My Carbon Footprint
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century Grade

11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on My Carbon Footprint

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators

both from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in
helping the learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while
overcoming their personal, social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help
learners acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration
their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the body of
the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module.
You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist
the learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

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For the learner:

Welcome to the Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century

Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on My Carbon Footprint
.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities
for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be
enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in
the module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to

check what you already know about the
lesson to take. If you get all the answers
correct (100%), you may decide to skip this
module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link

the current lesson with the previous one.

What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be

introduced to you in various ways such as a
story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an
activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of

the lesson. This aims to help you discover
and understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent

practice to solidify your understanding and
skills of the topic. You may check the
answers to the exercises using the Answer
Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to
process what you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will

help you transfer your new knowledge or
skill into real life situations or concerns.

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 Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your
level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given

to you to enrich your knowledge or skill of
the lesson learned. This also tends
retention of learned concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in

developing this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of
the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities
included in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are
not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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 What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of
the skills or competencies you are expected to learn in the module.

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
master the nature of Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century.
The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning
situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students.
The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the
order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you
are now using.

The module is about to examining the learner understanding the consequences of

personal and local action to global climate change. ( MELC week 6 )

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Define climate change.

2. Analyze who are responsible for any carbon footprint.

3. Explain the essentials thoughts/values about “ A Glimpse of Environment”

4. Classify the two major parts of carbon footprint.

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 What I Know
This part includes an activity that aims to check what you already
know about the lesson to take. If you get all the answers correct
(100%), you may decide to skip this module.

Directions: Read each items carefully and shade the circle that corresponds to the
correct answer.

1. It describes a change in the average conditions such as temperature and rainfall

in a region over a long period of time ?
A. Weather condition
B. Climate change
C. Global warming
D. Greenhouse effect
2. It is an increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s atmosphere?
A. Weather condition
B. Climate change
C. Global warming
D. Greenhouse effect

3. It leads to the direct creation of environment pressure from the use of product
and service for example, through driving a car or heating a house with fossil fuels?
A. Economic
B. Global trade
C. Production
D. Consumption

4. Which of the following statement is NOT the effect of global warming in

agriculture?
A. Changes in the nutritional quality of some foods.
B. Changes in average temperature, rainfall and climate extremes.
C. Changes in manufacturing industries
D. Changes in pests and diseases

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5. Agriculture contributes to climate change both by ___________ emission of
greenhouse gases and by the conversion of non-agricultural land such as forest
into agricultural land.
A. Anthropogenic
B. Carbon dioxide
C. Temperature
D. Ground-level ozone

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 What’s In
This is a brief drill or review to help you link the current lesson with
the previous one.

REMEMBERING THE PREVIOUS LESSON

Directions: Illustrate the origin of the different component of gadget, business

enterprise/technology/agricultural product through a mind map and reflection
essay.

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 What’s New
In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to you in various
ways such as a story, a song, a poem, a problem opener, an activity
or a situation.

Let’s Take a Look : Analyze the picture carefully.

Getting Green: Your Carbon Footprint Explained

Allison Perrelli and Janee Pelletier

.
We are all hearing a lot about how to reduce our carbon footprint, but it can
be difficult to understand what exactly this means. Here are a few facts about your
carbon footprint and what you can do to reduce it at home and at the office.

Question: What Is a Carbon Footprint?

Your carbon footprint measures the impact your activities have on the
environment, determined by the amount of greenhouse gases produced through
burning fossils fuels, electricity, heating, and transportation. The average US
household has a carbon footprint of 16,008 pound per year.

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Question : How Is Carbon Footprint Calculated?

Your carbon footprint is made up of two parts: primary and secondary

footprint. Your primary footprint is a measure of direct emissions from burning
fossils fuels. This includes your home gas oil, and coal use, home electricity,
private transportation, public transport, flights, and food and drink . Your
secondary footprint includes your share of services, financial services, recreation
and leisure, house building and furnishings, car manufacture and delivery, and
clothes and personal effects.

Several affects of your footprint: the number of people in your household,

what kind of heat you use in your home, miles driven per year and fuel efficiency of
your automobile, number and duration of flights, your average monthly electric,
gas and the fuel bill, and recycling habits.

Source: Gladys P. Mangiduyos _ Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century

Notes to the Teacher

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 What is It
This section provides a brief discussion of the lesson. This aims to
help you discover and understand new concepts and skills

In this part of your journey, we provided something for you to read to deepen your
understanding about the topic.

Please read with comprehension to discover knowledge that will help you out in
dealing with the next phase of your quest.

What is Climate Change

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) defines climate

changes as a term encompassing a broad range of changes happening to our
planet, such as global warming, rising sea levels , shrinking mountain glaciers,
accelerating ice melts, and shifts in the blooming and harvest times of flowers and
plants, among many others. Climate change roots from global warming, which turn
is caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in the release of heat-
trapping gasses into air. Just like a greenhouse, these gasses get trapped into the
earth’s surface, thereby earning the name “ greenhouse gasses “.

Source: Rachel Mary Anne A. Basas. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century.

Manila, Philippines: JFS Publishing Service, 2016.3-14

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 EFFECTS OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION ON THE CLIMATE CHANGE

Food consumption and production have a considerable impact on the

environment. To be good, food needs to be responsibly sourced and consumed, as
well as healthy.
Food production contributes, for example, to climate change, eutrophication
and acid rain as well as the depletion of biodiversity. It also a considerable drain on
other resources, such as nutrients, land area, energy, and water.
Farming techniques have evolved, the use of fertilizer has decreased
considerably during the last few decades. Despite this, there appears to be no
decrease in nutrient loading attributable to agriculture.

CLIMATE CHANGE DEFINITION VS. GLOBAL WARMING DEFINITION

According to the US Geological Survey, global warming is just one aspect of

climate change. In fact, they say that global warming refers to the rise in global
temperatures due mainly to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses in
the atmosphere. On the other hand, climate over a long period of time including
precipitation, temperature and wind patterns.
Following the same line thoughts, according to Climate.Gov, global warming
refers only to the Earth’s rising surface temperature, while climate change includes
warming and the “side effects “ of warming -like melting glaciers, heavier,
rainstorms, or more frequent drought. Ultimately, this means that global warming
is one side of the much larger problem of human caused climate change.

Source: http://www.unenviroment.org.>sustainable consumption and production policies/

UNE

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 What’s More This comprises activities for independent
practice to solidify your understanding and skills of the topic. You
may check the answers to the exercises using the Answer Key at
the end of the module.

Directions: What does each item refers to? Choose the answer from the terms
inside the box below and write in the space provided.

_________________1. Can be replaced naturally by ecosystem.

_________________2. Providing for human needs in such a way that natural

damaged or used up.

_________________ 3. Most electricity is generated through burning fossil fuels which

release____.

_________________ 4. Highest _________ are most common in high income countries.

_________________ 5. It is a process by which radiation from the planet’s surface to a

temperature above what it would be without this atmosphere.

Sustainability carbon footprints greenhouse effect

Renewable resources greenhouse gases

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 What I Have Learned This includes questions or
blank sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process what you
learned from the lesson

Directions: Answer the following questions. Write your answer in the box.

1.What is a carbon footprint?

2. Are you responsible for any carbon footprint?

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 What I Can Do This section provides an activity which
will help you transfer your new knowledge or skill into real life
situations or concerns.

The Second Station is for you to

state the reason whether your
Directions:
family can or cannot afford toRead the paragraph carefully. Write your explanation below.
support your dream profession.

A Glimpse of Environment

The vast forest of the planet has a big role in the sustenance of life. Trees
give all the important balance of the environment. Carbon dioxide, a big pollutant
in the air we breathe, is being neutralized nonstop by its leaves, If the CO2 exceed
its limit, disease without cure and pandemic are horrible things that may happen
which could eventually stop life to beat.

The greenery of the great plains, the mountains, and the rainforest are not
just mere symbols of life. Rather, they are a big reality of nature. The birds are
there because of trees’ ever abundant fruits and thick canopies. The bees are there
to effect germination of the flowers. Insects, fish, the creatures in the wild -
everything from nature has its roles and purposes for this life we have.

If you will notice, the firefly with its glittering light in the dark night is no
longer around. This beautiful insect only abounds if there is no pollution. The
diseases that afflict us now are unknown to our grandparents in their time. Science
found out that the plunder of our ecology has a lot to cause cancer.

The roots of the trees on the mountains hold the soil to avoid erosion
including the underbrush. Without erosion, floods and its devastating effect would
not happen. Life and properties will not be lost.

The dwindling forest cover our planet causes the climate to change. The
weather pattern becomes erratic. The damage in the ozone layer is alarming. It is
everybody’s concern! Nature has given a proper balance of ecology to enjoy. If we do
not wake up, we will be the victims of our own indifference.

For the purpose of nurturing life, expects discover and continue to research
the hidden potentials and curing capacities of plants in the wild form animals
species in the waters and the bushes, corals, and sea creatures included.

The huge effect of global warming is blamed on the reduced forest cover
causing drought or floods, El Nino and La Nina. Countries have come together and
agreed to campaign to save the environment : to save Mother Earth. If man goes on
his indifference, where do you think will we go? My friends, care and protection of
nature mean loving our dear life. Let us all intensity our awareness about this- for
the sake of our siblings, for our children, and to the succeeding generations

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Based on the paragraph “ A Glimpse of Environment”

1. What particular line/s has/ have stricken you most?

2. How does global connection affect the entire world?

3. Summarize in your own words “ A Glimpse of Environment “

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 Assessment
This is a task which aims to evaluate your
level of mastery in achieving the learning
competency.

Directions: FACT or BLUFF. Write the word FACT if the statement is correct and
the word BLUFF if the statement is incorrect. Write your answer on the space
provided for it.

____________1. Global warming increase in the overall temperature of the earth’s

atmosphere.
____________ 2. Agriculture contributes to climate change both by anthropogenic
emissions of greenhouse gasses and by the conversion of non- agricultural land
such as forest into agricultural land.

____________ 3. A greenhouse effect describe the weather conditions that are

expected in a region at a particular time of year.

____________4. Climate change describe a change in the average conditions,-such as

temperature and rainfall in a region over a long period of time.

____________5. It is generally attributed to greenhouse effect caused by decreased

level of carbon dioxide and other gases.

Additional Activities

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In this portion, another activity will be given to you to enrich your knowledge or
skill of the lesson learned. This also tends

Directions: Classify the to parts of carbon footprint.

Answer Key

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What I Know What's More
Assessment
B Renewable
C resources FACT
D sustainability FACT
C greenhouse BLUFF
A gases FACT
carbon footprints BLUFF
greenhouse
effect
References

Books:
Source: Rachel Mary Anne A. Basas. Trends, Networks, and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century.

Manila, Philippines: JFS Publishing Service, 2016.3-14

Source: Gladys P. Mangiduyos _ Trends, Networks and Critical Thinking in the 21 st Century

Websites:

http://www.unenviroment.org.>sustainable consumption and production policies/

UNEP
http://friendoftheearth.uk>natural resources overconsumption and the
environment

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