Grades: 9-12
In Search of Sustainable Life
Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a sustainable community and develop models for measuring those factors.
Grades: 6-8
In the News: Research for Tomorrow
Through planning, writing, and performing a news telecast, students use information from current events articles to create fact-based predictions about what their futures might look like.
Grades: 9-12
Go for the Green
Students play a board game about the fate of a rainforest where they must strategically balance economic and environmental decisions.
Grades: 6-8
Timber
In a simulation, students model what happens to a forest when trees are cut faster than they are planted, and graph their results.
Grades: 9-12
Unfair Race
Representing different countries, students step forward or backward based on health conditions in their borders, to find which countries have an advantage in a final “race for health.” They then analyze different visual data on health spending and health coverage around the globe.
Grades: 6-8
Lessons for Life
Students read and discuss a short conversation between two Ethiopian girls about attending school and read and analyze poems about girls’ education.
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