| Title: | Facing the Future |
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| Metadata Description: | Provides students, teachers, and members of the general public with sustainability and global issues educational materials and action opportunities to help shape the future. Facing the Future(TM) provides educational materials and professional development opportunities for educators that address environmental issues such as population growth, poverty and equity, consumption trends, peace and conflict, health, climate change, and sustainability. These materials include textbooks for students, service learning and action projects, and curriculum units with activities and lesson plans that meet educational standards. The organization's web site provides information on downloading and/or purchasing these materials, information on a featured curriculum unit, news and event announcements, and information on professional development opportunities for in-service and pre-service educators. This site explores current global issues such as poverty, health, and the environment, just to name a few. Students can learn how to take action, or link to organizations to find out what they are doing. The Teacher's Corner has projects, lesson plans, hands-on activities, and much, much more. |
| Resource Best Passage: | Facing the Future | Sustainability & Global Issues Resources Download or Buy Curriculum | Subscribe | Donate It's all connected! Climate change. Population growth. Poverty. Environmental degradation. Conflict. Global health crises. Intractable global problems? We don’t think so. At Facing the Fu |
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Additional Resource Information
| Author | Facing the Future: People and the Planet |
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| Grade Level | Undergraduate (Lower Division) Undergraduate (Upper Division) Vocational/Professional Development Education |
| Intended Audience | Administrator Early Elementary Educator High School Later Elementary Middle School Middle School Teachers Secondary Education Secondary School Teachers Technical School First Cycle Technical School Second Cycle Vocational Training |
| Language | en |
| Publisher / Resource Provider | Facing the Future |
| Resource Format | html |
| Resource Type | Activity Collection Curriculum standards Curriculum units/projects Event Full text short readings/articles Instructional Material Instructor Guide/Manual Learning/Research Opportunity Lecture/Presentation Lesson/activity plans Lesson Plans Nonfiction Reference Other curriculum resources Other information resources Other professional development resources Overviews Photographs/images Primary sources/data Reading Materials Reference Material Research Science Materials Text Unit of Instruction Workshop |
| Rights Information | Copyright 2008 Facing the Future Facing the Future: People and the Planet |
| Subject Keyword(s) | Demographics Education and Training Resources -- All Levels Environmentalism Environmental Science Geography Geoscience Policy Issues Science Science -- Agriculture Science -- Earth Science Science -- Ecology Science -- General Science Resources Social Studies Social Studies -- Current Events Social Studies -- Economics Sustainability; Environmental Action Sustainable Development--study and Teaching Sustainable Development -- Study and Teaching |