[WSCSS] New Curriculum: Understanding Sustainability for High School Social Studies

[Kim Rakow Bernier]

Facing the Future Releases: 

Understanding Sustainability - A Two-Week Unit for Social Studies (Grades
9-12)

 

How do economics, history, and democracy relate to sustainability? Students
learn to answer questions like these through engaging hands-on lessons in
Facing the Future's new high school social studies unit, Understanding
Sustainability
<http://www.facingthefuture.org/Home/CurriculumDetails/tabid/131/Default.asp
x?ItemID=NATUSHS-DN> . Click here to download a FREE overview and the table
of contents of the unit today! 

 

Each lesson in the two-week unit is aligned to National Council for the
Social Studies' curriculum standards for easy classroom integration. Through
real-world lessons, students come to understand such timely issues as:
ecological footprint, sustainable civilizations, and media awareness.

 

What educators are saying about Understanding Sustainability:

"This unit is thoughtful and engaging. It allows students to weave between
sustainability locally and globally. I especially appreciated the history
lesson as too often we look at sustainability as a modern notion; this will
empower students to look at this issue across time and space."

 ~ High School Global Issues & World Affairs Teacher, Kent, WA

 

Understanding Sustainability includes:

*	Sequenced activities for each day
*	Student readings
*	Homework assignments
*	Critical thinking questions
*	Action project and service learning extension
*	References and links to additional web resources

 

"Everything has been done for you.  They are a teacher's dream. The
transparency master is there.  The student handout is there. The timing of
the lesson is there.  The overview is there.  The tie-in to learning
objectives is there."  ~ High School Teacher, Bainbridge Island, WA

 

Lessons link to easy-to-implement action projects that help students develop
critical thinking and collaboration skills while applying sustainability
concepts in their communities. 

 

Facing the Future staff is available to come to your school or district to
provide a workshop on this unit or other global sustainability curriculum
resources. Click
<http://www.facingthefuture.org/ProfessionalDevelopment/ProfessionalDevelopm
entHome/tabid/119/Default.aspx>  here for more information.

 

 <http://www.facingthefuture.org/> www.facingthefuture.org

 

 


Facing the Future is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and
motivating today's students to be responsible stewards of tomorrow's world.
We develop and deliver standards-based hands-on lessons, student textbooks,
curriculum units, and professional development opportunities for educators
that promote critical thinking on global issues, sustainability and positive
solutions. Facing the Future curriculum is used by over 750,000 students in
all 50 U.S. states and over 85 countries by teachers and students in grades
K-12, in undergraduate and graduate classes, and across multiple subject
areas.

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://wscss.org/pipermail/wscss_wscss.org/attachments/20081205/ce54337d/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/png
Size: 247 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://wscss.org/pipermail/wscss_wscss.org/attachments/20081205/ce54337d/attachment.png>