Reading into Action: Textbooks and Lessons to Engage Students with Global Sustainability

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Reading into Action: Textbooks and Lessons to Engage
Students with Global Sustainability

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Global Sustainability
Curriculum Resources

Student Textbooks

Teacher’s
lesson plan
book

Sustainable Development is…

“meeting the needs of
the present without
comprising the ability
of future generations
to meet their needs”

“Our Common Future,” United
Nations Brundtland Report, 1987

Defining Sustainability

Social
Well-being

Sustainable
Flourishing Communities Strong
Environment Economy


Engaging Students Through Global Issues
Lesson Plan Book for Grades 5-12

Each of the 40 activity-based lessons includes:
Subject areas and key concepts
National standards alignment
Timing and step-by-step instructions
Materials needed and handouts
Assessment questions
Options for extended learning
Technology, literacy, math and art connections
Action project & service learning connections
Recommended resources (films, books, websites)


Engaging Students Through Global Issues
Issue Areas Covered
INTRO TO GLOBAL ISSUES & RENEWABLE & NON-RENEWABLE
SUSTAINABILITY RESOURCES
INTERCONNECTIONS MEDIA LITERACY
SUSTAINABILITY GLOBAL HEALTH
SYSTEMS THINKING GOVERNANCE
CARRYING CAPACITY & MICROCREDIT & POVERTY
POPULATIONS GROWTH ALLEVIATION
MIGRATION & REFUGEES POVERTY & EQUITY
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT WOMEN & DEVELOPMENT
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY INTERNATIONAL DEBT RELIEF
WATER RESOURCES TAXES & BUDGETING
CLIMATE CHANGE CONFLICT & MEDIATION
BIODIVERSITY & ECOSYSTEMS WORLDVIEW & CULTURE
QUALITY OF LIFE TAKING ACTION

FTF Activity-Based Lesson:
“Is It Sustainable?”
Apple A Apple B
Price to consumer $1.00 $0.50
Farmer’s profit $0.50 $0.25
Miles traveled 10,000 200
Pesticides used None Some
Soil health Good quality Poor quality
Taste Slightly sweet Slightly tart

Copyright © 2010, Facing the Future Photo credit: flickr/procsilas

FTF Activity-Based Lesson:
“Is It Sustainable?”
Society
1. Are individuals and communities involved in making fair and democratic decisions about the activity?
2. Is it an equitable activity (i.e., does it offer more options or opportunities to some groups over others)?
3. Does the activity contribute to people’s quality of life?
4. Does it positively affect different cultures?

Environment Economy
1. Can the activity be done without 1. Does the activity have a positive
damaging plants or animals? economic impact?
2. Does it help or harm air, water, 2. Does it create meaningful
and soil quality? and satisfying work for
3. Does it use resources at a rate individuals?
that allows the resource to be 3. Does it contribute to a
renewed or regenerated? community’s economic
4. Is the waste created by the development?
activity recyclable? 4. Do all people receive
5. Does the activity generate a equal economic
limited amount of waste? benefits from the activity,
6. Does this activity contribute to rather than some people
the conservation of natural benefiting at the expense
resources? of others?

Sustainability
1. Can the activity be done without causing damage in the 3 areas (economy, environment, and society)?
2. Can this activity be done so that people in the future will have the same opportunities to do this activity as people today?


Searchable Database of
State Education Standards


It’s All Connected
Student Textbook for Grades 9-12

Essential Questions
Important Terms in Bold Print
Stories from the World
Youth in Action
Specific Global Issues
Personal and Structural Solutions
Feature Issues
Curriculum Connections
FTF Lesson Connections & Resources


It’s All Connected
7 Units of Study
Unit 1 – Getting Started With Global Issues

Unit 2 – Population & Carrying Capacity: History, Trends, & Possibilities

Unit 3 – Meeting Essential Human Needs: Food, Water, & Energy

Unit 4 – Environment: Keeping Our House in Order

Unit 5 – Quality of Life: Culture, Health, Education, & Human Rights

Unit 6 – Building Sustainability: Governance, Development, & Peace

Unit 7 – Possible Futures & Sustainable Solutions


Textbook Highlights:
Stories from the World


Youth in Action


Featured Global Issues


Personal & Structural Solutions


Curriculum Connections


Activities & Information


Classroom Example
High School Global Issues
Global Issues/Sustainable Solutions:
Started as 11-12th grade elective
Moved to 9th grade required class
UN Millennium Development Goals
as centerpiece of course
Start big: What is poverty all about?
Narrow down: How is poverty
reflected in our community?


Global Issues & Sustainable Solutions
Student Textbook for Grades 6-8
1. Sustainability

2. What’s Up with Population?

3. Population throughout History

4. How Many People Can Earth Support?

5. Global Trends – Food, Water, & Income

6. Environmental Sustainability

7. What is the Good Life?

8. The USA in the Sustainability Puzzle

9. Sustainable Solutions – It’s Our Future!

Comparing Ecological Footprints
Youth from Around the Globe

Jyoti Bati Warren
(avg. Indian footprint: 1.9 acres) (avg. Kenyan footprint: 2.7 acres) (avg. U.S. footprint: 24.0 acres)


Classroom Example
Middle School Science

Uses textbook over 4-5
months
Units on:
Population
Sustainability
Ecological footprint
Broaden existing curriculum
with a global perspective


Teacher’s Companion to Text:
Reading Review & Assessments

 Assess students’ reading and comprehension
 Chapter-by-chapter comprehensive questions
 Short essay and writing prompts
 Teacher’s answer key
 Available for middle and high school textbooks
 FREE at www.facingthefuture.org
Click on “Download Free Curriculum Resources”


www.facingthefuture.org
Website Resources
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Issues
Tours
 Classroom
Examples
 Service
Learning
Database


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