Coconutty Classes
A profile of a 3 week thematic unit for grades 6-8 that focuses on a tropical fruit that masquerades as a nut.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.
May 15
Visualizing More Sustainable Futures
Contemporary education ignores the future but sustainability education requires it. Here’s a compelling rationale and some activities that will help young people think more critically and creatively about the future.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.
Two-Eyed Seeing As a Way of Knowing
Two-Eyed Seeing (also known as integrative science, native science, and ecological metissage) is a term describing a way of understanding the world from two cultural perspectives – Western scientific knowledge and native science.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.
Butterflies and Biomimicry
How 10-15 year olds can put to work the unique properties of Morpho Butterfly wings to help solve human problems.
AN EXCERPT FROM GREEN TEACHER'S SPRING 2013 ISSUE.
Activity: Climate Change Denial
Exploring the phenomenon of climate change denial, what lies behind it and the dangers it presents, and considering what might be done.
An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens," Green Teacher 94, Fall 2011
Activity: Weathering Climate Confusion
An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
Clarifying the difference between climate and weather while alerting students to levels of public confusion about the two terms.
Climate Change Despair and Empowerment Activity Sequence
An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
Encouraging students to share their anxieties about climate change futures; helping them discover that others share their fears; fostering their disposition and readiness to take action.
Activity: Guidebook for Survivors
An activity from "Unleashing blessed unrest as the heating happens"
Students work within an imagined dystopian climate change scenario to develop a guidebook for climate change survivors. They then transform gloom into purposefulness and pro-activity by considering whether they and others could act on their guidebook now to avoid global warming, and to what effect.
Making global connections
Teaching and learning about interconnectedness through highly participatory activities
From Green Teacher 54, Winter 1997-1998.
Activity: Where Do You Stand?
An activity that encourages open-mindedness and demonstrates the wide range of views on any controversial topic.
From Green Teacher 54, Winter 1997-1998
