Green+Teacher+review+(Gannon+Castner)

This curriculum module was developed by Green Teacher, a non-profit organization that produces and publishes a quarterly magazine called //Green Teacher// that includes teaching ideas from successful professional “green” educators ([|Green Teacher Website]) Green Teacher seeks to publish resources to help educators promote global and environmental awareness students, from elementary school age through high school age. They wish to educate and provide teaching ideas to professional educators both inside and outside schools in order to spread sustainability and environmental issues and information. Green Teacher wishes to educate the general public about educational issues, sustainable futures, and practical cross-curricular activities. They try and provide educational activities for educators to use with students both in and outside of the classroom in order to spread awareness of educational issues and problems. This version of //Green Teacher// aims to teach kids about the following persepctives: facilitators of fascination, beyond our beaches: ocean trash, marvelous mangroves, healthy bodies, healthy oceans, and environmental justice in the azores. It also teaches about new technologies such as: the ocean, rocking the classroom from the ocean, real-time teaching with venus and Neptune, and putting marine science on the map. They provide activities about the ocean such as seaquaria in schools, and monitoring coral reefs using quadrats. The learning outcomes surround the ocean and about sustainability topics. Yes, I think that the curriculum is appropriately designed to produce the intended learning outcomes because it provides many real-world examples and explains them in terms educators can easily adapt for any age group. This curriculum does teach the kind of literacies the EcoEd Research Group advocates because it spreads environmental awareness and knowledge about current problems as well as provides real-world examples. They provide specific examples of activities students can do in order to learn more about sustainability within that topic. Green Teacher could incoroporate more hands-on projects as well as include more about how the students could learn what THEY can do in order to better the environment and make active changes towards a more sustainabile future.
 * What organization developed the curriculum module you are evaluating?
 * What is the mission of the organization?
 * What is the educational mission and philosophy of the organization?
 * What does the curriculum module aim to teach? In other words: what are the learning outcomes supposed to be?
 * Do you think the curriculum is appropriately designed to produce the intended learning outcomes?
 * Does this curriculum teach the kind of literacies the EcoEd Research Group advocates?
 * What could be layered into this curriculum so that it address more of the learning outcomes that the EcoEd Group advocates?