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Module Review: Scenic Hudson’s Climate Change Guide

1. What organization developed the curriculum module you are evaluating? Scenic Hudson is a community focus group founded in 1963. It’s credited for launching the grass-roots environmental movement most likely inspired by the intense pollution of the Hudson River during the Industrial Revolution.

2. What is the mission of the organization? Scenic Hudson is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Hudson River, including its riverfront and vistas and landscapes surrounding the Hudson valley.

3. What is the educational mission and philosophy of the organization? Scenic Hudson’s education missions impresses that an outstanding quality of life, a key component of economic development, is only achieved with a clean, healthy environment. Also, all citizens have a right to an outstanding quality of life including __access__ to the Hudson River, open space, and community decision-making.

4. What does the curriculum module aim to teach? In other words: what are the learning outcomes supposed to be? Scenic Hudson has devised a Climate Change Guide, a __free__ educational tool used to inform and inspire change among its audience. The Guide’s main purpose is to tell the reader about climate change and what they can do to make a positive impact.

5. Do you think the curriculum is appropriately designed to produce the intended learning outcomes? I think this curriculum is useful for anyone that chooses to seek it out. However, I have a hard time identifying an obvious audience. Additionally, I find it interesting that this educational tool is funded by the Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation. The information in the guide is seems unbiased though.

6. Does this curriculum teach the kind of literacies the EcoEd Research Group advocates? The curriculum does teach a general awareness of climate change which is something EcoEd is passionate about. It also goes so far as to identify specific household actions that directly affect climate change, which is important for advocating action and change.

7. What could be layered into this curriculum so that it addresses more of the learning outcomes that the EcoEd Group advocates? Making this Climate Change Guide more accessible to the community and a childrens community might align more with EcoEd’s purpose. Simply making something accessible __online__ does not affectively put the message across.