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Facing the Future
  • Resource: Facing the Future
  • Resource 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.
  • Topic: Air/Climate, Energy Conservation, Habitat/Ecosystems, Sustainability, Waste/Recycling, Water, Wildlife
  • Grade: K-5, 6-8, 9-12
  • Cost: no
  • Time: 1-3 Classes
  • Location: AR
  • Keywords: global issues, sustainability, action, service learning, systems thinking

Added on 12/3/2007

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