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Sustainability Lesson Clearinghouse
Hybrid Vehicles Cut Pollution
Lesson Description:
This lesson plan provides three separate activities helping students to better understand the advantages to hybrid vehicles.
By the end of this module, students will:
This lesson plan provides three separate activities helping students to better understand the advantages to hybrid vehicles.
By the end of this module, students will:
- Know the definitions of internal combustion engine, hybrid electric vehicle, emissions, and pollution.
- Be able to calculate the percentage reduction in emissions achieved by a hybrid electric vehicle.
- Be able to calculate the increase in fuel mileage, or the decrease in fuel consumption, for a hybrid electric vehicle.
- Be able to calculate the payback period for purchase of a hybrid electric vehicle.
- Understand the difference between a part-to-part ratio, a part-to-whole ratio, and a rate.
- Be able to set up and solve proportions using rates and ratios.
- Be able to set up and solve percentages as proportions.
- Be able to describe a linear relationship in terms of rate and starting point, using a graph, a table or an equation.
- Be able to find the y-intercept and the x-intercept of a linear relationship, using a graph, a table or an equation.
Lesson Type:
- Discussion
- Other
Sustainability Topic:
- Climate Change
- Other
GEF Program Category:
- I Ride Green
Time Needed:
3-5 classes
3-5 classes
Submitted By:
GEF on behalf of U.S. Department of Energy
GEF on behalf of U.S. Department of Energy
School or Group:
US Department of Energy
US Department of Energy
Contact Email:
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
service@greeneducationfoundation.org
Located in: Science | Language Arts
