GreenMyParents provides an opportunity for teachers to engage middle and high school students in math, science and environmental curriculum in a very personal and action oriented way. The same careful measurement, adjust and reflect process students use to analyze resource consumption and costs in their home through GreenMyParents can be applied to the classroom and entire school. GreenMyParents’ approach is based on real-world problem solving.

Simply by comparing their own power bills to national averages, students gain immediate and personal access of their own environmental footprint and quickly begin to consider cause and effect of various behavior changes.

Here is a sample lesson plan – please feel free to adapt to suite your students or discipline. We look forward to your feedback and the comments of your students.

Also, please take a look at this free sample from the book to generate other ideas.