Sustainability Education Handbook Sample Activities

Ethics:

Theme: (7-12)Discuss corporate policy practices.

Goal: Discuss one corporation’s policy statement & actual practices. Analyze a corporation of personal interest to class (suggestions: clothing, shoe, oil companies). Topics for discussion include: worker’s wages & benefits & rights, globalization, environmental impact, loss of indigenous cultures. Discuss the students’ ethical choices (by voting through purchasing) and impacts of ethical choices on our world and environment.

Standards / MEAP:

» English Language Arts: IX.11.1, IX.11.4 (Inquiry &Research)

»Social Studies: IV.2.1, IV.2.2, IV.4.1, IV.4.2, IV.4.3, IV.HS.4.4, IV.5.1, IV.5.2 (Economic Perspective)

» Math: III.1.4, III.2.1, III.2.4, III.2.5 (Data Analysis & Statistics)

» Science: I.1.1, I.1.7 (Construct New Scientific & Personal Knowledge) II.1.5 (Reflect on the Nature, Adequacy & Connections Across Scientific Knowledge), III.5.6 (Use Scientific Knowledge from the Life Sciences in Real-World Contexts)

Curriculum:

»The Shape of Change (9-12)

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$35 Introduction to Sustainability Curriculum (Module I)

$50 towards a Sustainable Economy (Module II)

Websites:

»International Forum on Globalization

» Social Investing