Conley-Wilson+Curriculum+Review+1+Air+Pollution

Curriculum Review- Air Pollution: What's the Solution

The organization that developed the curriculum module I am evaluating is the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) which is located at Stevens Institute of Technology.
 * What organization developed the curriculum module you are evaluating?**

The mission of this organization is to develop and support “effective innovative curricula and professional development.” They also inspire, catalyze and strengthen scientific, technological, engineering and mathematics literacy for K-12 and higher education through conducting research.
 * What is the mission and philosophy of the organization?**

The educational mission and philosophy of the organization is to build science, technology, engineering and mathematics through professional development. They believe that through education research they can understand teaching and learning works better. They hope to move, inspire, and support student development in K-12 and higher education. Their goal is to give children the skills necessary for solving personal and community problem with social responsibility. They also value science, technology, mathematical literacy.
 * What is the educational mission and philosophy of the organization?**

The curriculum module aims to teach what air pollutants are. The sources of air pollution and the health effects of breathing polluted air. Literacy in the EPA’s Air Quality Index (AQI) chart. Having the ability to record weather data and figure out if air pollutants that are there. The ability to make graphs that recognize and visualize trends. Predict when ground level ozone may occur. Using the knowledge gained to create awareness about air pollution and associated health effects.
 * What does the curriculum module aim to teach? In other words: what are the learning outcomes supposed to be?**

I think the curriculum is appropriately designed to produce the intended learning outcomes. It gives a flow chart for education of students and have useful worksheets that clearly explain and reinforce learning of air pollution how it effects humans, the environment, and the world. Activities allow for students to visualize these effects on the world in real time while interactively learning.
 * Do you think the curriculum is appropriately designed to produce the intended learning outcomes?**

This curriculum teaches many of the type of literacies the EcoEd Research Group advocates. The literacy goals this curriculum teaches include understanding of their own health and proximate and far-off causes, understanding how their own actions have an array of proximate and far off effects, understanding of different scientific disciplines and medical specialization, understanding of potential for change and of alternative ways of doing things and organizing society, capacity to conceptualize complex causation without being paralyzed, having creative info-seeking practices, animate analytic capabilities and capacity to narrate complex chains of events.
 * Does this curriculum teach the kind of literacies the EcooEd Research Group advocates?**

A lot of different things could be layered into this curriculum so that it addresses more of the learning outcomes that the EcoEd Group advocates such as adding more information about careers and professions to add therefor understanding of different scientific disciplines and medical specialization. Giving information to students about what kind of information certain scientist and doctors and how this information is obtained will give these students a better understanding of information and potential careers/interests.
 * What could be layered into this curriculum so that it addresses more of the learning outcomes that the EcoEd Group advocates?**