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Cross Referenced Curriculum with Short List Standards
English
English: Community (K-2)
» Ocean
Arks International: Building an Educational Living Machine™
(K-12)
Contact: Marc Companion at www.oceanarks.org
or email: info@oceanarks.org
Cost: $25 for manual
Create a Living
Machine in your classroom (creating water habitats for water
purification). Excellent curriculum for sustainable education, teacher
generated & tested curricula, sample activities primarily written
for K-8 though actual curricula appropriate for K-12.
English: Community (3-5)
» 10
Community Connections by Ginny Graves (4-8)
Contact: Center for Understanding Our Built Environment (CUBE),
Prairie Village KS 66208
913-262-0691
$19.95 ISBN: 0-9632033-2-0
Activities and projects educate students to better understand and
actively participate in the development of a quality built
environment. The basic concept: vibrant neighborhoods = citizen
involvement and commitment to responsible action
» Box
City (4-8)
Contact: Center for Understanding our Built Environment (CUBE),
Ginny Graves
913-262-8222 or www.cubekc.org
$30.00
ISBN: 0-9632033-1-2
Curriculum teaches how cities are planned, or unplanned; what makes
a quality city, and how students can participate in the improvement of
the built environment. Participants build a city using modular boxes
in 4-, 5-, and 6-inch sizes. CUBE’s philosophy is to empower kids to
take responsible action in their own community. Curriculum is
thorough, easy to use and interdisciplinary.
» Ocean
Arks International: Building an Educational Living Machine™
(K-12)
Contact: Marc Companion at www.oceanarks.org
or email: info@oceanarks.org
Cost: $25 for manual
Create a Living
Machine in your classroom (creating water habitats for water
purification). Excellent curriculum for sustainable education, teacher
generated & tested curricula, sample activities primarily written
for K-8 though actual curricula appropriate for K-12.
» Walk
Around the Block (4-8)
Contact: Center
for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE), Ginny Graves
913-262-8222 or www.cubek.org
$35.00 for
curriculum
ISBN: 0-9632033-0-4
Curriculum teaches students about architectural design, city
planning, and transportation flows through touring and analyzing their
home and school neighborhoods. Curriculum is interdisciplinary
combining history, economics, politics, geography, science and the
arts. Excellent hands-on curriculum. Includes reproducible student
pages.
English: Community (6-8)
» 10
Community Connections by Ginny Graves (4-8)
Contact: Center for Understanding Our Built Environment (CUBE),
Prairie Village KS 66208
913-262-0691
$19.95 ISBN: 0-9632033-2-0
Activities and projects educate students to better understand and
actively participate in the development of a quality built
environment. The basic concept: vibrant neighborhoods = citizen
involvement and commitment to responsible action
» Box
City (4-8)
Contact: Center for Understanding our Built Environment (CUBE),
Ginny Graves
913-262-8222 or www.cubekc.org
$30.00
ISBN: 0-9632033-1-2
Curriculum teaches how cities are planned, or unplanned; what makes
a quality city, and how students can participate in the improvement of
the built environment. Participants build a city using modular boxes
in 4-, 5-, and 6-inch sizes. CUBE’s philosophy is to empower kids to
take responsible action in their own community. Curriculum is
thorough, easy to use and interdisciplinary.
» Creating
a Humane and Environmentally Sustainable Future / Positive Futures
Fair (7-12)
Contact: Dr. Debra Rowe, Oakland Community College, 739 S.
Washington, Royal Oak, MI 48067
248-246-2553 or dgrowe@occ.cc.mi.us
free curriculum
A class project where students envision positive scenarios for the
future. Fun and easy to implement. Curriculum covers topics including
science, social studies, language arts and life skills.
» Junior
World Game (6-12)
Contact: Upland
Hills Ecological Awareness Center, Judy Piazza, 2575 Indian Lake Rd,
Oxford, MI 48370
248-693-1021 or uheac@igc.org
Workshop (fee $375 or $575 for 2 workshops)
Multi-media game
played with an entire class on a large dymaxion map of the world.
Students interact with accurate information about the distribution of
world resources (food, population, energy and literacy) and develop
strategies to make the world work for 100% of humanity.
» Ocean
Arks International: Building an Educational Living Machine™
(K-12)
Contact: Marc Companion at www.oceanarks.org
or email: info@oceanarks.org
Cost: $25 for manual
Create a Living
Machine in your classroom (creating water habitats for water
purification). Excellent curriculum for sustainable education, teacher
generated & tested curricula, sample activities primarily written
for K-8 though actual curricula appropriate for K-12.
» Walk
Around the Block (4-8)
Contact: Center
for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE), Ginny Graves
913-262-8222 or www.cubek.org
$35.00 for
curriculum
ISBN: 0-9632033-0-4
Curriculum teaches students about architectural design, city
planning, and transportation flows through touring and analyzing their
home and school neighborhoods. Curriculum is interdisciplinary
combining history, economics, politics, geography, science and the
arts. Excellent hands-on curriculum. Includes reproducible student
pages.
English: Community (9-12)
» Creating
a Humane and Environmentally Sustainable Future / Positive Futures
Fair (7-12)
Contact: Dr. Debra Rowe, Oakland Community College, 739 S.
Washington, Royal Oak, MI 48067
248-246-2553 or dgrowe@occ.cc.mi.us
free curriculum
A class project where students envision positive scenarios for the
future. Fun and easy to implement. Curriculum covers topics including
science, social studies, language arts and life skills.
» Earth
Matters: Studies for our Global Future (9-12)
Contact: Zero Population Growth (ZPG)1400 16th St.
NW. Suite 320, Washington, D.C. 20036
1-800-767-1956 or www.zpg.org/education
or PopEd@zpg.org
Curriculum is
correlated to the National Framework Standards, excellently
researched, interdisciplinary curriculum focusing on the effects of
world population growth. Topics covered include: population dynamics,
climate change, air pollution, water resources, deforestation, food
and hunger, waste disposal, wildlife endangerment, energy issues,
wealth and poverty, economics, and solutions to these issues.
» Junior
World Game (6-12)
Contact: Upland
Hills Ecological Awareness Center, Judy Piazza, 2575 Indian Lake Rd,
Oxford, MI 48370
248-693-1021 or uheac@igc.org
Workshop (fee
$375 or $575 for 2 workshops)
Multi-media game played with an entire class on a large dymaxion
map of the world. Students interact with accurate information about
the distribution of world resources (food, population, energy and
literacy) and develop strategies to make the world work for 100% of
humanity.
» Ocean
Arks International: Building an Educational Living Machine™(K-12)
Contact: Marc Companion at www.oceanarks.org
or email: info@oceanarks.org
Cost: $25 for manual
Create a Living
Machine in your classroom (creating water habitats for water
purification). Excellent curriculum for sustainable education, teacher
generated & tested curricula, sample activities primarily written
for K-8 though actual curricula appropriate for K-12.
» The
Shape of Change (9-12)
Contact: Creative Change Educational Solutions, Susan Santone,
229 Miles St. Ypsilanti MI 48198-4017
734-482-0924 or educhange@igc,org
$35 Introduction
to Sustainability Curriculum (Module I)
$50 towards a Sustainable Economy (Module II)
` Curriculum uses a fable as its initial teaching tool. Module I
teaches students how to think, evaluate, learn connections and
evaluate evolving practices and programs such as The Natural Step.
Module II includes a 6 week course on economics and sustainability,
globalization, human rights, externalizing costs and new measures of
progress. All curriculum is coordinated with the goals and objectives
of Michigan Educational System.
English: Inquiry (K-2)
» Shelburne
Farms: Project Seasons, Hands-on activities for discovering the
wonders of the world written by Deborah Parrella, illustrated by Cat
Bowman Smith (K-6)
Contact: The Stewardship Institute, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne,
VT 05482
802-985-8686
ISBN: 0-9642163-0-2
$24.95
Seasonally based, integrative, innovative curriculum. Activities
range from animal tracking, butter making, worm composting to seed
anatomy. All activities included detailed directions, history,
reproducible student sheets and prep-time.
English: Inquiry (3-5)
» Shelburne
Farms: Project Seasons, Hands-on activities for discovering the
wonders of the world written by Deborah Parrella, illustrated by Cat
Bowman Smith (K-6)
Contact: The Stewardship Institute, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne,
VT 05482
802-985-8686
ISBN: 0-9642163-0-2
$24.95
Seasonally based, integrative, innovative curriculum. Activities
range from animal tracking, butter making, worm composting to seed
anatomy. All activities included detailed directions, history,
reproducible student sheets and prep-time.
» Ecology
for All Ages: Discovering Nature Through Activities for Children and
Adults by Jorie Hunken (K-6)
Science / English Language Arts oriented for K-8 but primarily
K-5. Focus: streambeds, water habitats, neighborhood ecosystems,
pond life, field ecology, woodland & desert ecology. Easy to
use, teacher resource.
Contact: The Globe Pequot Press, P.O. Box 833 Old Saybrook, CT
06475 ISBN 1-56440-138-3
Cost: $16.95
English: Inquiry (6-8)
» Ecology
for All Ages: Discovering Nature Through Activities for Children and
Adults by Jorie Hunken (K-6)
Science / English Language Arts oriented for K-8 but primarily
K-5. Focus: streambeds, water habitats, neighborhood ecosystems,
pond life, field ecology, woodland & desert ecology. Easy to
use, teacher resource.
Contact: The Globe Pequot Press, P.O. Box 833 Old Saybrook, CT
06475 ISBN 1-56440-138-3
Cost: $16.95
English: Inquiry (9-12)
» Living
in a Material World: Lessons on Commercialism, Consumption and
Environment (9-12)
Contact: Center for A New America Dream, 6930 Carroll Ave,
Suite 900, Takoma Park, MD 20912
202-332-9110 or www.newdream.org
$10
Eight lesson plans and activities exploring the effects of
advertising , commercialism, and consumption on the environment and
society. Curriculum offers creative ways to counter commercialism and
increase care for students’ communities.
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