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“Economics
for the Common Good" ($35 plus shipping)
Ecological
Footprint Resource CD ($25 plus shipping)
“Lessons
from the Land" ($50 plus shipping)
"Economics for the Common Good"
($35) Three units
provide everything for 6 weeks of complete instruction, including
reproducible student materials, a detailed teacher’s guide,
background readings, and other resources. Activities include simulations,
small group problem-solving, community investigations, data analysis,
and rigorous nonfiction reading and writing. Unit summaries:
- Economic Production and Natural Capital:
Explores environmental manufacturing, product lifecycles, and
sustainable economic practices.
- Incentives, Policies, and Economic
Choices: Examines the difference between price and costs;
social and environmental externalities; and the role of public
policies in promoting sustainability and accountability.
- Indicators and Economic Measurement:
Examines the Gross Domestic Product in light of community and
environmental sustainability, and introduces the Genuine Progress
Indicator.
- Download excerpts
at no cost.
Learn more about our programs
on economics
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Ecological Footprint Resource
CD: $25 This CD, sent with a printed table of contents
of all files and a users' guide, includes resources for teaching
and learning about the Ecological Footprint:
- A powerpoint file of full-color Ecological Footprint data,
diagrams, definitions, graphs, and other essential EF content.
Individual slides are printable as transparencies.
- Easy-to-print PDF files of background readings and handouts.
- A framework for teaching about world- and US history using
a the Ecological Footprint as a lens.
- A sequential framework for an Ecological Footprint unit suitable
for an environmental science or geography class. The unit is
presented using Creative Change’s approach to curriculum
design: essential understandings, guiding questions, indicators
of student achievement, learning activities, and assessment.
- Download
complete table of contents (PDF)
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"Lessons from the Land"
($50) This high school social studies unit provides complete
materials for 4 weeks of sequential instruction. A three-ring
binder includes a reproducible master of the content-rich student
booklet (about 100 pages), a complete teacher's guide, and over
25 transparency masters. Download
excerpts at no cost.
- Student booklet includes in-depth readings with literacy-building
activities, data, case studies, research projects. An appendix
includes rubrics and guidelines for writing policy papers and
researching land use and policy issues in the community.
- Topics covered: demographics, local history, environmental
and social impacts of land use, the zoning and planning process,
sustainable community design, and public policies affecting
land use.
- Instructional methods: simulations, role plays, small group
problem-solving, community investigations, data analysis, oral
histories, and rigorous nonfiction reading and writing.
- Note: "Lessons from the Land" was developed for
Southeast Michigan, where Creative Change is based. Some of
the data, case studies, and lessons emphasize this region or
Michigan state. However, 70% of the curriculum is usable
anywhere, and the place-specific material is easily adaptable
to your region. In addition, the lessons’ sequential
design provides a well-planned and pedagogically-sound framework
for teaching about land use. This saves days of planning time.
Learn more about our programs
on land use and sustainable communities
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1.
Terms of Use for Individual Teachers
- Creative Change's curriculum materials are designed and sold
for individual teachers to use in their classrooms. Materials
may be reproduced for use in the purchaser's individual k-12
classrooms and must include credit lines.
- Materials may not be reproduced, sold, delivered, posted,
transmitted, or made accessible in any form for use outside
of an individual teacher’s classroom without the express
consent of Creative Change Educational Solutions. Such prohibited
uses include workshops, staff development programs, conferences,
or private consulting.
2. Terms of Use For Consultants/Staff
Developers/Education Professionals/ Organizations/Schools/Districts
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Schools, districts, government agencies, museums, religious
institutions and community organizations must sign a licensing
agreement prior to purchasing or using CCES materials.
- Individual educators, in any role as a professional consultant,
“trainer of trainers,” curriculum developer, staff
developers, lead teacher, publisher or producer, must also obtain
prior permission and/or license to use Creative Change Educational
Solutions’ materials.
We welcome opportunities to partner to bring sustainability education
to the widest audience possible. We invite educators or organizations
seeking to use the materials beyond the permitted uses to contact
Susan Santone, Executive Director, Creative Change Educational
Solutions. email: santone "at" creativechange.net |
phone: 734-482-0924.
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