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Making connections between global issues and sustainable solutions can be a challenge. This middle school textbook can be used to inform, inspire, and motivate students. Global issues come to life through graphs, photos, a glossary, and comprehensive endnotes. This book is an ideal resource to teach core subjects using global issues and sustainability as a contextual framework or for a stand-alone introductory global issues and sustainability course.
- Grades: 6-8
- Subjects: Science, Social Studies
- Student Textbook: 55 pages
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Facing the Future offers the following free downloads from Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions: Population, Poverty, Consumption, Conflict, and the Environment:
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Introduction and Table of Contents
Preview the introduction and table of contents.
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Chapter 1: Sustainability
In this chapter students read an overview of sustainability and related topics.
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Scavenger Hunt for Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions
A fun way to introduce your students to global issues and sustainability vocabulary words and concepts. Students search for answers throughout Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions and fill in the blanks with their answers.
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Reading Review Questions
This companion resource provides student reading reviews for Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions.
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Reading Review Questions Answer Key
The answers to the Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions reading review questions. Contact us to request a free copy of the Reading Review Questions Answer Key.
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Resource Details
Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions can be used as a central teaching component for a semester or year-long course, as a short unit on global issues, or as an engaging contextual framework within which core subjects are taught. Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions is often compatible with existing curriculum requirements and topics and extends students’ learning through an interdisciplinary approach to issues.
Download the complete table of contents.
Chapter 1: Sustainability
In this chapter students read an overview of sustainability and related topics.
Chapter 2: What's Up with Population, Anyway?
Chapter two exposes students to population growth and related topics, such as sanitation, climate change, and extreme poverty.
Chapter 3: Population Throughout History
Students will explore exponential population growth and how modern advances have made this growth possible.
Chapter 4: How Many People Can the Earth Support?
In this chapter students examine the connection between the earth's carrying capacity and our ecological footprint.
Chapter 5: Global Trends - Food, Water, and Income
This chapter looks at key resource consumption and availability trends in food, water, and income.
Chapter 6: Environmental Sustainability
Chapter six identifies how our expanding population and ecological footprints are contributing to environmental degradation.
Chapter 7: People and the Planet: What is the Good Life?
Students explore how the health and well-being of people is connected to the health and well-being of the planet.
Chapter 8: The USA in the Sustainability Puzzle
This chapter looks at the average ecological footprint of U.S. citizens, traditional and alternative indicators of human progress, and current government policies.
Chapter 9: Sustainable Solutions - It's Our Future!
Throughout this chapter students will identify personal actions and global solutions that they can take to help work toward a sustainable future.
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Professional Development
Facing the Future offers the following workshop to help you learn more about Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions: Population, Poverty, Consumption, Conflict, and the Environment:
Global Issues, Sustainable Solutions
Come see how easy it can be to incorporate complex global issues into your teaching with Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions! Discover hands-on activities to enliven classroom discussion, stimulate critical thinking, and help students relate to issues such as population, poverty, consumption, conflict, and the environment. We'll explore interconnections, impacts, and solutions – along with key resource trends that drive economic, environmental, social, and security issues.
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Supplementary Materials
To complement Global Issues and Sustainable Solutions, this section contains background information and additional resources to help educators and students learn more about global issues and sustainability.
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Action Project Database
Links to organizations that provide service learning opportunities for students
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Climate Change Action Project Database
Links to organizations that provide opportunities for students to participate in service learning around climate change
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Fast Facts and Quick Actions
Information on a variety of global issues and simple actions that students can take
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Global Issues and Sustainability Resources
A collection of books, magazines, videos, websites, and reports related to global issues and sustainability
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Global Issues Tours
An overview of various global issues such as biodiversity, climate change, and human rights
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Newspapers in Education
Written for grades 5-10, the series can be used in full or in part to study specific topics. All articles include a student activity and "take action" idea.
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