Curriculum Library and Instructional
Design Services
Are you looking
for innovative lessons to enhance an existing unit? Would you
like your students to have up-to-the minute data? Are you a teacher
seeking peer-reviewed articles to enhance your own knowledge?
Look no further!
Creative Change maintains an extensive
curriculum library with
hundreds of lessons, articles, project ideas, assessment tools,
and other resources for teachers and students. Some materials
are produced by us, and others are from reputable educational-
and research organizations.
The library combines "click
and brick" materials: Some are available on-line, while others
are hard copies in our collection. Hard copies of any resource
are available from us as part of a copyright-cleared resource
packet we design around your needs.
To support schools in the use of
our curriculum resources, we offer the following services:
- compiling copyright-cleared resource packets for students
or teachers. Packets include age-appropriate articles, data,
lessons, project ideas, and other resources based on your needs.
- developing units or courses built around your resource collection
- providing professional
development that prepares teachers to deliver the new content
Contact us
to discuss your needs.
Titles From Our Library Note:
If materials are not available on-line, they are available from
us as part of a copyright-cleared resource packet we compile around
your needs. Browse resources by content area:
Economics for the Common
Good: Linking economic, environmental and community well-being.
The Ecological Footprint:
Understanding human impact on the environment.
Land Use: Creating healthy,
sustainable communities.
Food Systems: Why our choices
matter for community, the environment, and the global economy.
Culture: Citizenship
in a multicultural society.
Learn how these content areas can be used to integrate Michigan
and National standards.
Curricula on "Economics for the Common Good" (aka
"Ecological Economics") These titles are published
by Creative Change. On-line ordering is coming soon. You can contact
us to obtain copies until then.
- Economic Production and Natural Capital:
This unit for grades 7-12 explores environmental manufacturing,
product lifecycles, and sustainable economic practices. Adaptable
for younger students.
- Incentives, Policies, and Economic
Choices: This high school unit examines the value of
ecosystem services; the impacts of subsidies on transportation,
land use, and food systems; and economic policies affecting
climate change.
- Indicators and Economic Measurement:
This high school unit examines the Gross Domestic Product in
light of community and environmental sustainability, and introduces
the Genuine Progress Indicator.
Download excerpts
from these units. (Coming winter 2006!)
See
examples of work students created as a result of using the
above units.
Learn more about our programs
on economics.
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Curricula and resources on the Ecological
Footprint If materials are not available on-line, they
are available from us as part of a copyright-cleared resource
packet we can compile. Contact
us for details.
- Resources, Population, and Consumption:
This collection of factsheets and activities introduces high
school students to the Ecological Footprint, the distribution
of global population and income, and related topics.
- Population and Poverty: What's the
Relationship?: This high school lesson focuses on root
causes of population growth.
- Elementary-level
lessons on the Ecological Footprint: This link takes
you to a child-friendly Ecological Footprint calculator as well
as multiple lessons for elementary grades. (You will leave the
Creative Change site.)
- Research
and data on the Ecological Footprint: The organization Redefining
Progress has the latest data on the Ecological Footprint,
a science-based method for measuring human impact on the environment.
(You will leave the Creative Change site.)
- Ecological
Footprint Calculator: This site offers a calculator and
interactive quiz that enables you to measure your own ecological
footprint. (You will leave the Creative Change site.)
See
examples of student work on the Ecological Footprint.
Learn more about our programs
on the Ecological Footprint
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Curricula
on Land Use and Sustainable Communities If materials
are not available on-line, they are available from us as part
of a copyright-cleared resource packet we can compile. Contact
us for details.
- Lessons from the Land: Land Use in
Washtenaw County: This high school curriculum module
focuses specifically on land use and sustainability in our home
community of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Learn
more.
- What is a Sustainable Community?:
This high school unit introduces students to the concept of
sustainability using case studies from around the country, followed
by research in students' own communities.
- Going Places, Making
Choices .
(grades 7-12) Explores the relationship between transportation
choices, personal mobility, fossil fuel use, pollution, and
climate change. Suitable for science or social studies courses.
From the National 4-H Council: 301-961-2906; http://www.4hgpmc.com.
Material is free, $9.95 for shipping and handling.
- Multiple Units on
Sustainable Communities. (grades K-12) From Education
for a Sustainable Future (ESF). Units related to energy conservation,
ozone depletion, forest preservation, and sustainable resources
(available for math, language arts, and social studies). Sample
titles include People, People Everywhere- Get Off the Roads!
and Energy Sources for a Sustainable World. http://csf.concord.org/esf/(click
"curriculum" link to access list of topics).
- Youth Land Use Curriculum.
(grades 3-5) From Michigan State University Extension and partners.
This free resources provides multiple lessons "to equip
today's youth with the knowledge to make wise land use decisions".
Downloadable in PDF format at http://web4.msue.msu.edu/msuewc/kent/yourland/.
Contact Kendra Wills; phone:616-336-3265; email: willsk@msue.msu.edu.
- Green Map Systems
(New York). Get on-line resources to create 'Green Maps', documents
that map a community's environmental assets. http://www.greenmaps.org
See
examples of student work on this topic.
Learn more about our programs
on land use and sustainable communities.
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Curricula and Resources on Food Systems
If materials are not available on-line, they are available from
us as part of a copyright-cleared resource packet we can compile.
Contact us
for details.
- Food Systems and the Environment:
We have a collection of research articles, factsheets, and activities
that explore the environmental impacts of conventional and organic
food production systems. Many of these resources are available
on-line from our partner organization Redefining
Progress.
- Food security and global trade:
We have a collection of research articles, factsheets,
activities,and lessons that explore food security, the root
causes of hunger, and the impacts of global trade on these factors.
Factsheets and articles are appropriate for upper high schools
through adults, while lessons range from grades 5-12.
- Local and Sustainable Food Systems:
We have a collection of research articles, factsheets, activities,
and lessons that focus on community-supported agriculture, organic
farming, farmers' markets, and other strategies to promote sustainable
food systems.
See
examples of student work on this topic.
Learn more about our programs on food
systems.
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Curricula on Culture - Race, Class,
Gender, and More If materials are not available on-line,
they are available from us as part of a copyright-cleared resource
packet we can compile. Contact
us for details.
- Culture and Human Difference:
This series of lessons for grades 7-12 introduces students to
human diversity, including the concepts of culture and socialization.
- What is Discrimination?: This
series of lessons for grades 7-12 help examine the nature of
bias, prejudice, and discrimination and strategies to combat
them. Lessons go beyond individual acts of prejudice to examine
systemic and institutionalized discrimination.
Anti-Discrimination Lessons We Developed
for the United Nations
Creative Change Educational Solutions
has developed a series of model units for the United Nations on
discrimination, race, gender, race, class, and ethnicity. The
units address discimrination and equity on these topics at the
personal, local, and global levels. Each unit provides a mix of
simulations, role plays, reflection, case studies, discussions,
and other experiential activities that help students
- explore the impacts of their beliefs and actions,
- analyze the causes and impacts of discrimination, and
- develop positive strategies to dismantle discrimination in
their schools and communities.
Some of these lessons are available on the UN's
Cyberschoolbus website.
Learn more about Creative Change's programs on cultural
issues.
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