Materials List:
Mmm Cupcakes:
What's Their Life Cycle Impact?
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/ucd-1371-cupcakes-product-life-cycle-assessment-impact
What's Their Life Cycle Impact?
Each group needs:
- Life-Cycle Assessment Pre-Activity Quiz, one per student
- 1 envelope containing 1 of 6 sets of paper printouts—a cupcake life-cycle “recipe card” and its ingredient cards; see below
- 1 corresponding page of the Life-Cycle Assessment Group Worksheet (see below)
- Life-Cycle Assessment Individual Worksheet, one per student
- Life-Cycle Assessment Post-Activity Quiz, one per student
- pencils, to make calculations and complete quizzes and worksheets
- calculator(s)
- (optional) graph paper
- (optional) computer with Microsoft® Excel® for using the Group Analysis Excel Sheets
To share with the entire class:
- Life-Cycle Assessment Group Worksheet, one copy per class; composed of six sub-worksheets
- LCA Activity Cards, print the PDF and cut out its 27 cards, sorting them into six sets (each with a cupcake life-cycle “recipe card” and its ingredient cards) that go into six envelopes, one per group
- 6 envelopes, to hold each of the six sets of cards, one set per team
- a large blank table written on the classroom board, for students to fill out (see Table 1)
- (optional) LCA Visual Aids
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