Environment of your World

Curriculum Strands:

Conservation

  • Bird Conservation
  • Invasive Species 
  • Alternative Energy 
  • Horticulture 
  • Green Practices 
  • Include design challenges in all substrands 
  • Community Service: Adopt-a-Highway, Volunteering at gardens, presentations on being green, awareness on saving energy at home and recognizing hazardous waste and waste disposal methods, improvement projects, bird counts, recycling

 

 

 

Homelessness

Curriculum Strands:

On Your Own

 

  • Real-life problem solving
  • Finding a Job
  • Job behavior
  • Planning for future
  • 18 is not the magic number
  • Cost of independent living
  • Planning a good transition

Personal Finance – Getting Money

 

  • Finding deals
  • Scams – confirming good deals
  • Financing
  • Banking online how-to; debit cards

Personal Finance – Keeping Money

 

  • Banking fees
  • Money management (how much in savings)
  • Budgeting
  • Luxury Item purchases (rent to own) (Suze Orman)
  • Wants vs. needs
  • Credit cards

Housing and Society

 

  • Leases, Land contracts
  • Who is homeless?
  • What is homelessness?
  • Cycle of poverty
  • Culture of poverty – recognizing it and breaking it
  • Community Service: Money management seminars with homey feel, volunteering at homeless shelter, awareness activity – tent city, resource list of housing and food banks, public service announcements, student newspaper with resources, website with links for resources and request for help