WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Facing the Future

URL: 

http://www.facingthefuture.org

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Topic: 

Air/Climate
Energy Conservation
Habitat/Ecosystems
Sustainability
Waste/Recycling
Water
Wildlife

Type: 

Curriculum
Information/Statistics
Lesson Plans
Online Tool
Service Learning Projects

Description: 

This nonprofit organization is dedicated to educating young people to think critically about global issues, sustainability, and positive solutions. The organization develops standards-based, hands-on lessons, units, and student textbooks and also provides professional development for educators. Facing the Future curriculum is in use in all fifty U.S. states and in forty-two countries by teachers and students in grades K-12, in undergraduate and graduate classes, and across multiple subject areas.

Cost: 

No

Grade: 

Elementary (K-5)
Middle (6-8)
High (9-12)

State: 

Arkansas

Time: 

1-3 Classes

Keywords: 

global issues, sustainability, action, service learning, systems thinking