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Choose Your Future Adventure Game

Description

The activities in this unit unleash students' creative and critical thinking skills in a quest to find sustainable solutions to ecological problems. "Choose Your Future" covers themes of transportation, housing, food, and garbage. Students are supplied with: 1) information on how current practices impact our environment, 2) various views of what the world might look like in the future - both sustainable and unsustainable, and 3) the tools to map out a path from today's practices to a world-view of their choice. A Teachers Guide includes teaching strategies, useful background reading and a glossary of useful terms. 32 pages

Meeting Standards for Learning

This unit supports the following teaching/learning standards.

Technology:
Nature of Technology; Technology and Society; Design; Abilities for a Technological World; The Designed World

Science:
Unifying Concepts and Processes; Physical Science; Life Science; Earth and Space; Science and Technology; Science in Personal and Social Perspectives; History and Nature of Science
  
Geography:
Places and Regions; Environment and Society
  
Social Studies:
Time, Continuity and Change; People, Places and Environment; Individuals, Groups and Institutions; Science, Technology and Society; Global Connections; Civic Ideals and Practices
  
Mathematics:
Number and Operations; Algebra; Connections; Representation

Availability

To order a copy, please download an order form (*.pdf) and send it with a check to cover shipping and handling to: NESEA, 50 Miles St., Suite 3, Greenfield, MA 01301.

Funded By:

Environmental Education Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, New York Office.