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Introduction to Sustainability
In short, this course provides a developmentally appropriate introduction to sustainability that engages students through interactive experiences, introduces key concepts such as the tragedy of the commons and the triple bottom line, and builds a …
Introduction to Environmental Justice
This suite of engaging and culturally responsive lessons creates a foundation for elementary, middle, and high school students’ understanding of environmental justice history and concepts.
Introduction to Climate Resilience
The Introduction to Climate Resilience lessons create a foundation for elementary, middle, and high school students’ understanding of climate resilience and climate justice, against the backdrop of climate change. Each lesson activates students’ c…
Design Studio
These human-centered design activities guide students through a creative problem-solving process to help them devise place-based solutions to sustainability challenges, such as reducing campus energy consumption, creating useful new public spaces,…
Green Building Lessons for a Sustainable Future
These in-depth lessons provide middle and high school students with a thorough understanding of green building principles at the intersection of sustainability and built environment and prepare students to enter a workforce with sought-after skill…
Business of Social Good: Entrepreneurship in Service of People, Planet, Profit!
These lessons introduce students to social entrepreneurship and design innovation and challenge them to develop and pitch their own business ideas in service of improving society and/or the planet.
Biomimicry and Science: Applying Nature's Strategies
This innovative lessons introduce students to biomimicry via numerous striking examples, with connections to core content in chemistry, physics, and biology.
Sustainable Waste
The Sustainable Waste course provides K-12 teachers with engaging, hands-on, and standards-aligned curriculum to introduce students to the complex and wide-ranging topics of waste production and management, all through the lens of design thinking…
