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Lesson Plan: Taking Action For Environmental Sustainability – Recicladores, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Taking Action For Environmental Sustainability – Recicladores, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
In this lesson, students will consider how to take positive action in helping to improve the environment of their neighborhood. This lesson provides the introductory pathway for the lessons that follow. Ultimately, students will develop an action plan as a final project.
Reading - The Recicladores, Columbia’S Scavenger Families Unite To Find Their Identity, Center For Urban Resilience
Reading - The Recicladores, Columbia’S Scavenger Families Unite To Find Their Identity, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
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Student Pages - Taking Action For Environmental Sustainability – The Story Of Columbia’S Recicladores, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Taking Action For Environmental Sustainability – The Story Of Columbia’S Recicladores, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
In this activity you read about the scavenger families in South America who make their living recycling the city’s trash. Known in the local settings as Recicladores, these families struggle to survive in a world where they are terribly mistreated and considered sub-human by many of the wealthier city residents. These are the same residents who actually depend on the recicladores to have their trash recycled. Consider how these people have been able to help themselves through organizing and working together to better their lives and the conditions in their neighborhoods. In addition, you will use the examples from the …
Lesson Plan: Trees In My City, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Trees In My City, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
Students have seen how people can actively work to improve the environment. Students will determine current tree / green coverage and why this information is important when planning for change. Students will learn the impacts trees can have on cities and will use understanding to identify tree species and plan future tree plantings in following lessons.
Rp Circle - Trees In My City, Center For Urban Resilience
Rp Circle - Trees In My City, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
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Common Trees Of La, Center For Urban Resilience
Common Trees Of La, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
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Los Angeles - School Maps, Center For Urban Resilience
Los Angeles - School Maps, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
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Powerpoint - Why Are Trees Important?, Center For Urban Resilience
Powerpoint - Why Are Trees Important?, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
No abstract provided.
Lesson Plan: Selecting And Synthesizing, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Selecting And Synthesizing, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
In this lesson, students examine all of the action plans they have created in the previous seven modules. They will analyze the goals and locations of those plans and look for common themes. Students will agree upon a new idea for an action plan that synthesizes the work they have already done, and reflects the scientific concepts they have learned over the course. As a class, you will create a new action plan that can realistically be implemented.
Lesson Plan: Seven Generations, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Seven Generations, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
In this lesson, students will consider the benefits and trade-offs of their action plans over an extended period of time. Students will consider and discuss a quote attributed to the Great Law of the Iroquois and predict and complete a timeline of the benefits and tradeoffs of their action plan for ecological communities (human and non-human) seven “generations” into the future. This lesson allows you and your students to consider the future impact of their action plans, and allows your students to consider making any modifications to their action plans.
Student Pages - From Action Plan To Seven Generations, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - From Action Plan To Seven Generations, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
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Lesson Plan: Doing The Action Plan, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Doing The Action Plan, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
In this lesson students will complete the class action plan that they have been developing and revising throughout the module. Students will carry out each step of the action plan to meet their specific goal to improve their field site/school/community. Students will reflect on their experience and think about continuing these ideas outside of science class.
Student Pages - Reflection, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Reflection, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 08: Urban Environmental Action
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