Curriculum Units, Courses & Design Tools
The Fish Game Facilitators Kit
The Fish Game Kit includes the Fish Game Guide with the fish game, instructions on how to facilitate the fish game, and how to debrief the fish game, and the Fish Game PowerPoint so you can implement the fish game in your class or organization. PREVIEW THE FISH GAME
| $50 | Buy Hardcopy (digital download available here)
The Fish Game Playing Cards and SCH'ish!
NEW! 2 Games in 1!This classroom set of 6 decks of cards is designed to be used along with the Fish Game Kit. Replace your paper cut outs of fish with these playing cards, and engage your students in a learning activity that transforms their thinking about the role they play in contributing to a sustainable future. Turn the cards over for SCH'ish!, the School of Fish Brain Break Game of memory and logic - fun for all ages! (Sch’ish! instructions included)
| $29 | Buy One Deck | $189 | Buy Classroom Set of 6 Decks + The Facilitators Guide
EfS Alignment Charts & Protocol
Our re-usable EfS Alignment Charts can be used for at least three purposes: 1) Align/ cross-walkthe Cloud Institute’s EfS Enduring Understandings, Standards and Performance Indicators with the existing curriculum content in your school across grade levels and disciplines; 2) Map and Plan an EfS unit or course of study; 3) Align as the first step to a Strengths Assessment of EfS in your curriculum (It is not a “gap” if it is not aligned!)
The Pre-Printed Post Its will save you time and provide the structure for the detail educators will need to move seamlessly from aligning to designing and/or innovating units of study. Once alignment is done, the data can be digitally transcribed and archived and can serve as a road map for future curriculum innovation. click here for a larger image
| $39 | Chart + 2 Post It Packs |$3.50 | Additional Post It Packs
Design Tools
Curriculum Design Box
Standards Cards
Principles of Sustainable Design Posters
The Cloud Institute Curriculum Design Checklists
Mental Model Cards + Understanding Mental Models Facilitators Guide
EfS Curriculum Design Workbook 2016 Ed. (Paperback)
Digital Downloads
EfS Curriculum Design Workbook (2015 Edition)
This EfS Curriculum Design manual is full of practical tools, protocols and exemplars that you can use to embed Education for Sustainability (EfS) into your curriculum and instructional practices over time. We begin with the end in mind, with our EfS Framework, Enduring Understandings, Standards and Performance Indicators and introductory power-point slides that unpack the parts of our EfS framework, the fields that inform it, and the other frameworks with which we are aligned. The next sections of the manual include material on assessing curriculum, practice and student work. The last sections include material on EfS curriculum design with exemplars and additional resources we think are useful.
| $50 |
The Fish Game Facilitators Kit
The Fish Game Kit includes the Fish Game Guide with the fish game, instructions on how to facilitate the fish game, and how to debrief the fish game, and the Fish Game PowerPoint so you can implement the fish game in your class or organization.
| $50 |
From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems: Challenges & Choices (6-8)
This 4-week activities-based unit helps students understand the root causes of hunger and develop informed opinions about their own food choices.
| $30 |
Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide (6-12)
This activity-rich guide was developed for after-school settings to provide teachers, parents, and non-formal educators with fun project ideas for teaching kids how to work toward sustainable food systems.
| $40 |
The Paper Trail: Connecting Natural & Economic Systems (9-12)
This 4-week unit was designed to be embedded in existing economics courses as an introduction to ecological economics.
Read a review of this unit by Dr. David C.Korten
| $30 |
Changing Consumption Patterns - (9-12)
This 3-week curriculum will help students gain a thorough understanding of sustainability by connecting them with their own consumption patterns and exploring the connection between their consumption and world conditions.
| $30 |
Inventing the Future: Leadership and Participation for the 21st Century (10-12)
This one-semester course fulfills the Participation in Government requirement for secondary schools. The course helps students develop a sense of place as they explore the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and envision the future through the creation of community projects that contribute to positive change. We highly recommend our 4-day professional development series that supports this curriculum. The Inventing the Future site license is for one school, and includes 550 page curriculum and CD.
View the Introduction
| $350 |
Business and Entrepreneurship Education for the 21st Century (BEE21)
Business and Entrepreneurship Education for the 21st Century (BEE 21) is a one-year high school course rich with case studies of successful ventures that meet financial, ecological and social goals (i.e., “The Triple Bottom Line”). Students study the connections between business, society and the planet as they develop the concrete skills they need to plan, launch and operate a sustainable entrepreneurial venture. The BEE21 site license is for one school, and includes 550 page curriculum and CD.
| $350 |