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[|Frontline: A Class Divided] (45 minute video about educator Jane Elliot) [|Fast Times at West Philly High] (36 minutes) // [|The Druk White Lotus School] // (Ladakh, India) (25 minute film) // [|Is School Enough?] // (55 minute film)


 * [|education in comedy news]**
 * (with links to lots of clips)**

[|Frontline, Poor Kids] (54 minute video)

[|Frontline, Middle School Moment] (13 minute video)

[|Frontline, Merchants of Cool] (53 minute video)

[|Frontline, Generation Like] (video, out February 18)

Schuler, Douglas (2015) " [|How Civic Intelligence Can Teach What it Means to be a Citizen] ." film on greenwashing

The Meatrix "Join Leo, the young pig who wonders if he is "the one", Chickity, the feathered family farm defender, and Moopheus, the trench-coat-clad cow with a passion for green pastures as they expose the problems with factory farming while making the world safe for sustainable family farms." []

// [|The Druk White Lotus School] // (Ladakh, India) (25 minute film)

// [|Is School Enough?] // (55 minute film)

UNESCO on sustainability education, 2010. Looks quite good. http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_a/popups/mod01t05s01.html Cuts off half way? 12 minute video about the need to change our educational paradigm. Watch for content and mode of delivery. E/Affective? For whom?  []

@https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

Grizzly bears and anti-Title IX?

[|Scary Man] (3 minutes, scary and funny, excellent)

The Meatrix "Join Leo, the young pig who wonders if he is "the one", Chickity, the feathered family farm defender, and Moopheus, the trench-coat-clad cow with a passion for green pastures as they expose the problems with factory farming while making the world safe for sustainable family farms." []

[|Air Pollution Math]

[|EcoEd Air Pollution Jeopardy]

Study guide for //Toxic Sludge is Good for You//.

nice interface for curriculum ideas -- https://ecokids.ca/get-outside#0

short on man's destructiveness (both really good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmhiglxga-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtKOrwf1h0 [|Scary Man] (3 minutes, scary and funny, excellent)

[|Changing Educational Paradigms](11 minutes)

Toyota Prius LCA @https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVa4GBze3tU

[|Frontline: A Class Divided] (45 minute video about educator Jane Elliot)

[|Fast Times at West Philly High] (36 minutes)

10% Curriculum Review MemosYou will write four memos that evaluate environmental curriculum modules now in circulation, evaluating what they accomplish (with specific reference to the evolving literacies goals of EcoEd), commenting on how they could be improved. You can review curriculum modules available at sites like this: []. PBS, National Geographic, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, and many museums also post k-12 environmental teaching materials. Your review should address these (and possibly additional) questions:
 * What organization developed the curriculum module you are evaluating?
 * What is the overall 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?
 * Is the curriculum appropriately designed to produce the intended learning outcomes?
 * Does this curriculum teach the kind of literacies advocated by EcoEd?
 * What could be layered into this curriculum so that it addresses more of the learning outcomes advocated by EcoEd?

on lives of teaching (in audit culture) https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/11/when-finnish-teachers-work-in-americas-public-schools/508685/


 * [|education in comedy news]**
 * (with links to lots of clips)**
 * (with links to lots of clips)**


 * COLED: Teaching Ethnography**


 * http://2016election.procon.org/2016-election-quiz.php**


 * go fix it stories --**
 * http://www.worstpolluted.org/success-stories-2010-blacksmith-pollution-clean-up-instustrial-waste-clean-up.html**
 * http://www.worstpolluted.org/projects_reports/display/66**


 * channeling projects**


 * Gender in Culture**


 * Health in Culture**


 * Race in Culture**


 * Social Movements in Culture**


 * Teaching Methods**

Reading for students
 * http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Celebrating-the-Power-of-Environmental-Feminists-20160308-0002.html (note reference to black woman activist in the South Bronx).**
 * http://www.who.int/countryfocus/cooperation_strategy/ccsbrief_khm_en.pdf?ua=1**


 * [|As engineers, we must consider the ethical implications of our work.]**


 * 4. UNICEF. Country report on Myanmar. UNICEF. [Last accessed on 2013 Jun 8]. Available from: [] . **

EcoEd: Putting Schools in Their Place**

Health in Context

on Brecht


 *  “Medicating Kids” (2001) Directed by Marcela Gaviria.

= [|Help to fight the battle for Earth in US schools] = Scientists everywhere must champion a set of US education standards that promote Earth sciences, argues Nicole D. LaDue

good on what EcoEd is after -- http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/how-kids-really-succeed/480744/?utm_source=nl-atlantic-magazine-051716 writing in science education http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3522

on drinking water -- good for Putting Schools in thier Place http://www.npr.org/2016/04/14/473806134/how-do-we-get-our-drinking-water-in-the-u-s organizations/ careers -- new chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/mathematical-ecologist-be-new-chief-scientist-nature-conservancy?utm_campaign=news_daily_2016-04-11&et_rid=17049157&et_cid=409212

college education (including admissions)

on story structures https://medium.com/@demianfarnworth/i-ran-the-movie-apocalypse-now-through-joseph-campbells-monomyth-theory-6ff3f33cf5d2#.88ggrb6by __http://cinemadiscourse.com/looking-back-at-apocalypse-now/__



Critical Data Mapping

spring 2016 essay questions

[|the power of grad teaching] EcoEd Programs Topics Archive

Journal of Environmental Educatation http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vjee20/47/2



Nice model: Frack University http://www.fracku.org/2012/10/congratulations-youre-accepted-energy.html

[|Frontline: Generation Like]

spring 2016 schedule

EcoEd Research Program 2016: Cities

@https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7Tryb0oX0Y @http://www.cbsnews.com/news/detroit-teachers-sue-district-over-shoddy-school-conditions/


 * read/watch **

12 minute video about the need to change our educational paradigm. Watch for content and mode of delivery. E/Affective? For whom? []

25 minute film for kids about Renewable Energy, with teacher's guide and links to other resources for teaching solar. E/Affective? For whom? To what extent do these curricular materials get atEcoEd's literacy goals? []

Very short article on teaching kids design/systems thinking. Please read this then google around to find other things that discuss how/why to teach kids about systems. []

Starting at this EPA page, also google around to see what you can find on creative teaching about air quality to elementary students (with our 40 first graders in mind). []


 * week 2, Tuesday, January 28 **
 * // From Research to Teaching //**

memo 1
 * write **

SRI Consulting. 2006. "The American Environmental Values Survey: American Views on the Environment in an Era of Polarization and Conflicting Priorities."
 * read/watch **

Wiggins, Grant & Jay McTighe. 2005. "What is Backward Design?" // Understanding by Design. //

Galston, William. 2001. "Political Knowledge, Political Engagement and Civic Education." Annual Review of Political Science. 2001. 4:217–34.

Pelissier, Catherine. 1991. "The Anthropology of Teaching and Learning," Annual Review of Anthropology. 20:75-95.
 * 6000 **

Collins, James. 2009. "Social Reproduction in Classrooms and Schools." Annual Review of Anthropology. 38:33–48.


 * week 3, Tuesday February 4 **
 * // Values in/of (Eco) Education //**

memo 2
 * write **

In reading and watching this week, please think about //why// environmental education is valuable, about the //values that should motivate and be built into// environmental education (noting the differences between Orr and Ridley/Low on this), and about the //ways values education should (or not) be threaded through public education// (remembering the long-running debate in the United States on the place of religion in public schools; noting also the increasing presence of commercial interests in public education (see x and y). Consider whether chemical and other “science-based” corporations should produce and share public school curriculum. Is this a form of corporate social responsibility, or an instance of conflicts of interests? Also consider what Jane Elliot’s pedagogical intervention into racial bias suggests for environmental education (which also calls for //cultural// transformation in students). And consider how education that aims to //transform// students relates to but differs from education that aims to //empower// students.
 * read/watch **

Finally, consider the place of public education in the values of Americans. If we were to run a study of “American Values and Public Education” along the lines of the survey we read last week on Americans’’ environmental values, what questions would we ask? Do you think American public education values have changed over the last few decades (keep this question in mind for next week, when we’ll focus on the history of public education in the United States). For those who have read Foucault, think about the “self” (or selves) that are cared for in the contemporary United States, and where public goods – including public education -- are in the discursive field. Can we see connections or similarities in the way “Americans” value and care for “the environment,” public health, and public education?

// [|Frontline: A Class Divided] // (45 minute video about educator Jane Elliot)

Lakoff, George. 2010. "Why It Matters How We Frame the Environment," // Environmental Communication //, March.

Brown, Paige. 2012. "[|Got Frames? Why How We Frame the Environment Matters]." SciLogs. March 25.

Orr, David. 2006. "Framing Sustainability," // Conservation Biology //, April.

Ridley, Matt & Bobbi Low. 1993. "[|Can Selfishness Save the Environment?]" // The Atlantic Monthly. // September.

American Chemistry Council’s [|Hands on Plastics™ (HOP™)]

American Chemistry Council’s [|Chlorine Science Center.]

de la Torre III, Pedro. 2013a. “Latour’s Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Politics of Nature,” Essay for RPI STS PhD Seminar, Environment and Social Theory (taught by Professor Steve Breyman). May 10.
 * 6000 **


 * week 4, Tuesday February 11 **
 * // Public Education In History //**

class: Ira Share, 1st grade teacher mid-term questions posted

// School: The Story of American Public Education // (4 hour film)
 * watch/read **

Kevin Arnold, “Review of School, The Story of American Public Education,” Kravis Leadership Institute, Leadership Review, Spring 2004

Miner, Barbara. 2013. “The Meaning of Choice,” Guernica. Feburary 8.

Karp, Stan. 2014. "Problems with the Common Core." Re-thinking Schools. 28/2. p10-17.

Ferguson, Daniel. 2014. "Martin Luther King Jr. and the Common Core: A Critical Reading of 'Close Reading." Re-thinking Schools.

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2009. Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities. Beacon Press.
 * 6000 **

(no class/Monday schedule, Tuesday 4-8pm + Wednesday 9:30-5:30 BP Disaster Workshop)
 * week 5 **, **Tuesday February 18**
 * // Toxic Sludge is Good for You //**

Our challenge this week is to think about how curriculum and our educational system overall can prepare students to think and act well in a world saturated with media, commercial interests and what could be called cynical professionalism (see the public relations and advertising professionals portrayed in //Toxic Sludge is Good For You// for examples of the latter). Consider how schooling can prepare students to make sense of greenwashing, the kinds of corporate pressure evident in the story of Tyrone Hayes, and the subtle (and not so subtle) commercial bias in educational materials about hydrofacking (see Project Look Sharp’s materials for teaching about hydrofracking and media credibility).

// [|Toxic Sludge is Good for You][| (] // 45 minute film)
 * watch/read **

Study guide for //Toxic Sludge is Good for You////.//

[|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].

= Aviv, Rachel. 2014. [|"A Valuable Reputation: After Tyrone Hayes said that a chemical was harmful, its maker pursed him,"]T// he New Yorker. // February. =

Darling, Eliza. 2001. "The Lorax Redox: Profit Biggering and Some Selective Silences in American Environmentalism." //Culture and Ecology//.

[|Stop Greenwashing.org]

[|Introduction to Media Literacy]

[|Project Look Sharp's Media Literacy Handouts]

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

(Thursday class: EERP #1; Saturday: STANYS workshop)
 * week 6, Tuesday February 25 **
 * // Kids in Context //**

memo 3, annotation 1
 * write **

[|Frontline, Poor Kids] (54 minute video)
 * read/watch **

[|Frontline, Middle School Moment] (13 minute video)

[|Frontline, Merchants of Cool] (53 minute video)

[|Frontline, Generation Like] (video, out February 18)

[|Frontline Map, Where is Childhood Poverty Getting Worse]

[|Frontline, The Test Score Gap]

[|Steele, Claude. “The Stereotype Threat.”] Frontline interview.

Reed, Betsy. 2014. “[|How Universal Pre-K Could Redistribute Wealth Right Now.”] February

[|Mixed News in EPA report on Toxins and Children]

[|Carroll, Linda 2014.] // Mold, Mice and Zip Codes: Inside the Childhood Asthma Epidemic. MSN. January 3. //

(Sunday 2-4pm: Sust Ed Network Meeting; Sunday 4-6: Sust Film; Tuesday 9:15-12:15: Tamarac #2; Thursday class: EERP #2)
 * week 7, Tuesday March 4 **
 * // Modes of Environmental Ed //**

midterm essay, annotation 2
 * write **

// [|The Druk White Lotus School] // (Ladakh, India) (25 minute film)
 * read/watch **

// [|Is School Enough?] // (55 minute film)

[|Fast Times at West Philly High] (36 minutes)

[|What is Project Based Learning?] (1p w links)

[|Kaid Benfield’s Blog. No Child Left Outside.]

National Environmental Education & Training Foundation. 2000. Environment-based Education. Creating High Performance Schools and Students.

National Association for the Advancement of Environmental Education

// Excellence in Environmental Education - Guidelines for Learning (K-12) (revised 2010) // []

[|Education for a Sustainable Future] (53min)
 * 6000 **

(RPI spring break; Thursday class: EERP #3)
 * week 8, Tuesday March 9 **

(Wednesday 9:15-12:15: Tamarac #3; Thursday class: EERP #4)
 * week 9, Tuesday March 18 **
 * Pedagogies of/for the Oppressed **

annotation 3
 * write **

Friere, Paulo. 2006. (30th Anniversary Edition).
 * read/watch **

Bowers, Chet A., ed. //Re-thinking Freire: Globalization and the environmental crisis//. 2004.
 * 6000 **





great article about lawyer that went after Dupont http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html?_r=0

debatable: Should EPA regulate carbon emissions from coal plants? (Harvard constitutional lawyer -- apparently paid by Peabody -- argues it unconstitutional). http://grist.org/climate-energy/constitutional-scholar-laurence-tribe-sells-his-soul-to-big-coal-makes-terrible-arguments/

multiple essay questions

http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/roleplaying/scenario.html
 * Pedagogy in Action / Role Play Scenarios

run this as a workshop! (life cycle analysis) http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/sustainable-products-environmental-responsibility.shtml

Looks like very good, comprehensive sustainability education curriculum for k-12, across subjects, offered by Western Washington State University, https://www.facingthefuture.org/AboutUs/AboutUs/tabid/98/Default.aspx#.VmMlpnvj_H1

// [|The Druk White Lotus School] // (Ladakh, India) (25 minute film)

// [|Is School Enough?] // (55 minute film) [|Sociological Cinema: Addressing 'Problem Behaviour' in Early Years] (great for journal entry)

[|Sociological Cinema: The Wire and Educational Inequality] (great for journal entry)

Against the backdrop of climate talks in Paris, a powerful documentary film, RACING EXTINCTION, will be featured this Tuesday, December 2, at 9 p.m. ET /PT, 8 P.M. central, on the Discovery Channel. The film is a Hollywood tangle of science and James Bond, but often evocative and likely to be highly effective with many students and with more than a few ES faculty members. A product of Louie Psihoyos, the academy-award winning director of “The Cove,” RACING EXTINCTION has some superb footage and a strong message. I’m inviting any would-be film critics out

Sociological analysis of ideological frameworks that shape how people think about the "American Dream" and economic inequality in the US (starting with examples from education). "Sociologists note that everyone has overarching frameworks for making sense of the world. These frameworks, called //ideologies//, are sets of ideas and beliefs that shape how we interpret reality. Ideologies are always related to power, with dominant ideologies reinforcing existing power relations. The American Dream is a particularly dominant ideology that reinforces class relations by perpetuating the belief that anyone who works hard can be economically successful (despite the overwhelming evidence of how class inequality shapes economic outcomes)." From this excellent [|analysis of video clips to show what how ideological frameworks work in practice.]

games about disaster (look really good) https://gamesined.wikispaces.com/Global+Issues

good list http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2008/07/19/the-best-sites-to-introduce-environmental-issues-into-the-classroom/

online environmental games http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-environmental-games-teach-kids-earth-ecology-conservation/

National Library of Medicine archive of environmental health games (air pollution games look really good): http://kidsenvirohealth.nlm.nih.gov/generic/2/games

In planning for the game on Thursday, take a look at this game about corporations and fracking being made by an STS researcher at UC-Davis. Look particularly at the "game narratives" and "class game ideas" on the right. You'll need something like these for Thursday. @http://frackthegame.com

Probably after your game, it would good to show your students some examples so that they better understand that what you have tried to show them is a general phenomena -- i.e. it (the tragedy of the commons) happens recurrently around many issues. See, for example:

Tragedy of the Commons on South Park @http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/economicstube/clips/pee_in_pool.wmv/view

Study.com on the Tragedy of the Commons (for AP Env Science, I think -- looks like there are lots of nice concepts) @http://study.com/academy/lesson/tragedy-of-the-commons-theory-definition-examples.html

Kim



Water Treatment
Build Your Own Aquifer (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ) - Interactive web activity to learn what aquifers are, how they work, their importance, and how to build one. Water Treatment (Mindfuel ) - Game about water purification.

[|180 Days: A Year Inside An American Public School] (DC Met) (2 hours) [|180 Days: Hartsville] ( hour) [|180 Days: A Challenge](interactive game) [|Tweets about 180 Days]

[|Dropout Nation: Sharpstown, Houston](115 minutes)

// [|Toxic Sludge is Good for You][| (] // 45 minute film)

Study guide for //Toxic Sludge is Good for You////.// nice interface for curriculum ideas -- https://ecokids.ca/get-outside#0

Safecast video by the guardian http://blog.safecast.org/news/

Living on One Dollar a Day (by college kids) (in Guatamala) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmQujWTMuC8

seems really beautifully done -- 20 minutes on kids living in Cambodian garbage dump, who get out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6-dqhnmJzY

children living in a Guatamala garbage dump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SPy9qV1M4

Study guide for //Toxic Sludge is Good for You////.// nice interface for curriculum ideas -- https://ecokids.ca/get-outside#0 short on man's destructiveness (both really good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmhiglxga-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtKOrwf1h0

Yes Men Survivo Ball https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yes+Men+survivaball https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/151343847d37bae1?projector=1

__Monday__

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=timfvNgr_Q4

[|Enrolling for Agenda 2030] (3 minutes)

Nature Deficit Disorder https://vimeo.com/121420228

//[|Petropolis]// (on Canada's tar sands, 15 minute version for Neil Young tour)

__Thursday__

Study guide for //Toxic Sludge is Good for You////.// nice interface for curriculum ideas -- https://ecokids.ca/get-outside#0 short on man's destructiveness (both really good) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmhiglxga-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtKOrwf1h0 [|Scary Man] (3 minutes, scary and funny, excellent)

[|Changing Educational Paradigms](11 minutes)

[|Houston: Schooled in Pollution] (5 minutes)

[|Bryan Perras: Manchester](4 minutes)

[|Direct Action to Protect Manchester from Valero] (2 minutes)

[|Houston Refinery Tour](5 minutes)

[|Love Canal](11 minutes)

Kids and KFC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQUcDt1dhE

topics energy tech and politics

greenwashing

Drexel Disaster workshop

IAEA lecture notes

updated E&P Vienna disaster course PECE tests fall 2015

Fall 2014 Research

BIBLIOGRAPHY

FILMS

DEBATES

great little lecture on the greenhouse effect https://spark.ucar.edu/greenhouse-effect-movie-scott-denning

question power @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6p9QXCb1eY&feature=youtu.be

subtly, on greenwashing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M

local food systems 201 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfiCL-YHSyY

good soils curriculum http://utah.agclassroom.org/files/uploads/estore/unit_dirt.pdf

ms research questions 2012 middle school portfolios 2012 middle school help desk 2012

other resources regional contacts reading module reviews new modules integrative questions SustEd help desk SustEd 2012 portfolios New Modules 2012 - List reading undergraduates secondary education 3rd-5th general resources

eco-ed work group templates topics films debates concepts figures organizations go fix it! essay questions research skills grants notes

RPI STS

RPI SUST Task Force

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2015 schedule

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2015 spring portfolios

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