Day 16 - WK 3

This morning came in and began looking at some of the reference resources that Dr Wasson suggested for societal issues related to technology and ride-sharing.
Took an online carbon footprint calculator designed for high school students.  Very good site, a little lengthy but it has really good application to students daily lives.  http://footprint.stanford.edu/calculate.html  this site is part of the International Carbon Footprint Student Challenge.  Students can compare their data to the US average, to other students around the globe in real-time and to other countries averages and look at ways to re-calculate and reduce their own.  I am going to add this component to our lesson plan as an introductory awareness activity to the big picture of global climate change and one planet.  Spent the afternoon looking at different GIS applications, trying to learn how to overlay different GPS data and maps to get one visual image.  I am going to try GRASS GIS, it is a free program and seems to be pretty flexible.  I also am looking at arcGIS, but it is expensive to have the entire software.