SustEd+schedule


 * WEEKLY SCHEDULE, SPRING 2013 SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION ||
 * week 1 || Tuesday, January 22

__ class __ [|RSA video: Changing Educational Paradigms] || Friday, January 25

__ class __ ||
 * week 2 || Tuesday, January 29

//Environmental Attitudes//

__ homework __ reading: environmental attitudes || Friday, February 1 ||
 * week 3 || Tuesday, February 5

//Toxic Environments//

__ class __ curriculum presentations begin film: //Children and Chemicals// || Friday, February 8

//Sustainability and Media Literacy//

__ class __ film: //Toxic Sludge is Good for You// ||
 * week 4 || Tuesday, February 12

__homework__ reading: [|Mixed News in EPA report on Toxins and Children] (1p) [|What is Project Based Learning?] (1p w links) video: [|Education for a Sustainable Future] (53min) [|Fast Times at West Philly High] (36 minutes)

__class__ due: memo 1 (see examples) film: //[|A Class Divided]// || Friday, February 15 || Tamarac break week
 * week 5 || Tuesday, February 19 no class/Monday schedule

//Money, Poverty and Kid//s

homework:

video: [|Poor Kids] (54min) video: [|Middle School Moment] (13min)

due: memo 2 || Friday, February 22 ||
 * week 6

Sunday film // Bitter Seeds // || Tuesday, February 26

Complex Interpretation and Narration

[|The Myth of India’s ‘GM Genocide’: Genetically Modified Cotton Blamed for Wave of Farmer Suicides.] Commentary on impacts of GM crops [|BT Cotton and Farmer Suicides in India: Reviewing the Evidence] (skim) [|Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaires] (read comments, too). [|Leaked Docs Reveal How Top Think Tank Turns Oil Money Into Climate Denial].

Project Look Sharp's Curriculum on "[|Media Constructions of Sustainability],"[|Chemicals in the Environment]" and "[|Hydrofracking, Media and Credibility]"

[|Introduction to Media Literacy] [|Project Look Sharp's Media Literacy Handouts]

due: memo 3 || Friday, March 1

secondary school research program (ssrp) begins ||
 * week 7 || Tuesday, March 5

due: midterm essays || Friday, March 8 ||
 * |||| SPRING BREAK ||
 * week 8 || Tuesday, March 19

due: memo 4 || Friday, March 22

ssrp meeting || Passover: Tuesday, March 26
 * week 9 || Tuesday, March 26

due: memo 5 class: Prof Kathy High works with biodiversity group review for Tamarac visit || Friday, March 29 Easter: Sunday, March 31

ssrp meeting ||
 * week 10 || Tuesday, April 2

due: memo 6 class: Peg from SmartKids to class for review of green architecture curriculum || Friday, April 5

ssrp meeting ||
 * week 11 || Tuesday, April 9

due: memo 7 || Friday, April 12

ssrp meeting ||
 * week 12

Sunday film || Tuesday, April16 Earth Week Festival || Friday, April 19 Earth Week Festival ||
 * week 13 || Tuesday, April 23 || Friday, April 26

ssrp meeting ||
 * week 14

Secondary School Research Symposium || Tuesday, April 30 Wednesday, April 29: STS UG Research Symposium

due: final, cumulative essay || Friday, May 3 ||
 * week 15 || Tuesday, May 7

no class ||  ||