Earth Day: Building Green–Program 1
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Grades: 6 - 12

Video Description: Learn what it means to “build green.” Tour the headquarters of Alberici Constructors, the world’s only LEED® Platinum and 4 Green Globes certified building. Interact with corporate personnel to find out how the building was constructed and how its “green” systems operate.

Unique Video ID: Environment-14**

**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.

Student Tools
Student Tool 66: Video Reflection Worksheet
Students can use this activity on their own to share their learning and insights about any video they watch independently, and this Student Tool can also be used in conjunction with Teacher Tool 318: Sharing Your Insights Through A Reflection Worksheet as part of a classroom or homeschool activity. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tools
Teacher Tool 130: Building Green Study Guide
Use this study guide to learn more about the Educate.Today video:
Environment 14: Earth Day: Building Green Program 1 and.
Environment 15: Earth Day: Building Green Program 2.
Contents include a program description, a program agenda, related curriculum standards, and learning activities related to the program.
Teacher Tool 276: STEM Activity–Overlapping Engineering Fields
Download this teacher tool for a STEM activity providing students the opportunities to research different fields of engineering and what some of them have in common. This teacher tool could be used with any of the following Educate.Today videos:
Aviation-2, Aviation-9, Engineering-7, Engineering-9, Engineering-11, Environment-8, Environment-14, Sample Video-25, Sample Video-26, Sample Video-34, Sample Video-51, Sample Video-80, Sample Video-81, Sample Video-88, Space-9, Space-10, Space-11, Transportation-14, Transportation-20
Teacher Tool 296: Arts Integration Activity–Going Green
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Arts Integration activity combining science, engineering, and visual arts as students learn about living green engineering concepts and create a magazine layout advertising a "green product" they believe in. This activity is designed to be used with the following Educate.Today videos: Environment-1, Environment-3, Environment-5, Environment-11, Environment-12, Environment-13, Environment-14, Environment-15.
Teacher Tool 297: STEAM Activity–Going Green
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides a STEAM activity combining science, engineering, and visual arts as students learn about living green engineering concepts and create a magazine layout advertising a "green product" they believe in. This activity is designed to be used with the following Educate.Today videos: Environment-1, Environment-3, Environment-5, Environment-11, Environment-12, Environment-13, Environment-14, Environment-15.
Teacher Tool 317: Cross Curricular Activity–Sharing Insights Through a Journal Entry
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to write a journal entry that shares learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 318: Cross Curricular Activity–Video Reflection
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to complete a reflection worksheet to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 319: Cross Curricular Activity–Sharing Learning Verbally
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video through verbal sharing and conversation. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 320: Vocabulary Interesting to Me
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, invites students to increase their vocabulary by selecting, and learning the definitions of, words in the video that are unknown and/or interesting to them. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 321: Vocabulary Activity
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, asks students to listen for certain vocabulary words you have selected and define them in two ways: 1) contextually based on what they think the definition might be based on what they learn in the video; and 2) through a dictionary to either confirm or refine their contextual definition. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
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