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Questions or suggestions for the (brand new) ECOS website?
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So this website is brand new. It was created by three high school students from Menlo High School - Ben Taft, Kraig Fujii, and Jeremy Stern in collaboration with Danny Boyer. If you have any…Continue
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- I teach at:
- Menlo Middle School
- Grades I teach:
- 7th
- Subjects I teach:
- Science
- A list of projects and lesson plans I teach and am willing to share:
- Marine Biology:
1) Monterey Bay Seafood Watch (sustainable fisheries)
Q & A based on their website.
Climate Change:
1) Mock advertising agency - design an ad to convince
others to take an action to reduce their carbon footprint.
2) Take an action to reduce your carbon footprint and
journal about it for two weeks.
3) Food mile menus. Create two menus - one with as many food
miles and and one with as few food miles as possible.
Energy:
1) Energy for Grilled Cheese Island: A developing island
nation debates which types of energy should be used
in their future.
- Other revelant things happening at my school:
- garden club
philanthropy club
service learning projects:
6th grade Sustainable Agriculture
7th grade poverty and hunger
8th grade poverty
Dude that's wrong!!:
7th grade end of year project. Every student picks something they see as wrong in the world, researches it, finds a solution, takes an action to further that solution, and gives a presentation about it to the entire 7th grade.
- Favorite Websites:
- sustainability and social justice conference:
http://www.bioneers.org/
sustainability in education:
Center for Ecoliteracy: http://www.ecoliteracy.org/
Food and Sustainability:
Nourish http://www.nourishlife.org/
green design:
http://inhabitat.com/
sustainable fishing:
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.aspx
my school:
www.menloschool.org
my class page:
http://moodle.menloschool.org/course/view.php?id=4454
videos and lesson plans from KQED Quest:
http://www.kqed.org/quest/stories?media[]=0&media[]=&topics[]=0&topics[]=&topics[]=&topics[]=&edguide[]=only&listview=true
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An example of Student Collaboration
Posted on May 24, 2011 at 8:11am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Here was a great event organized by students from various schools, an inspiring example of collaboration:
Click on the link to get the flyer or read below: BE_THE_CHANGE_BENEFIT_CONCERT.pdf
This is an incredible collaboration between the youth of over twelve schools in…
Continuepodcast: Ecoliteracy through the garden at the Journey School
Posted on May 4, 2011 at 11:19am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Check out the podcast about the Journey School and their Ecoliteracy program: http://permaculturepodcast.org/
Permaculture Podcast Episode 17 Ecoliteracy a Journey at Journey School. I spoke with Michelle Spieker about the process of creating an ecoliteracy program for Journey School an elementary school in Aliso Viejo. Michelle shares with us a story of…
ContinueNourish curriculum on Food and Sustainability
Posted on April 11, 2011 at 2:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
The Nourish organization is really great and they just launched a new website. I have shown their fantastic movie to my students (narrated by Cameron Diaz, which gets the attention of some who don't usually pay attention) and our 6th grade uses some of their curriculum. You can download their curriculum here.
If you are looking into developing…
ContinueWhat is Ecos all about?
Posted on March 29, 2011 at 2:00pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
ECOS is a project that I began out of my desire to accelerate the speed at which education is transformed to include more curriculum involving sustainability and social justice. It is increasingly clear that we need to educate our students how to create an environmentally and socially just world. One factor that keeps progress slow in this area is that teachers are busy and finding time to develop new curriculum is time consuming.
The idea of ECOS is to bring together…
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Thanks Danny. I will send you a description of the workshop and maybe we can meet up for a beer and put some stuff up this weekend or something.
BD
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