Sustaining the Future
Activities for Environmental Education in US History

 

What is Uncle Sam's life expectancy?
What actions and policies threaten to shorten it?
Which will extend it?

 

  • Explore these questions of sustainability with your US History students
  • 20 interactive lessons and numerous extension activities
    (contents | sample lesson | review | order form)
  • Developed by a team of classroom teachers, college faculty and global educators
  • Field tested by enthusiastic high school US History teachers with demonstrable results from their students
  • Alternative assessment design included

 

Table of Contents

ForewordIntroduction to Sustainability
Lessons
  1. Problem Solving: A Generic Model
  2. What is Sustainable Development? The Chair
  3. How is Sustainable Development Like a Seed?
  4. Early Encounters: Inevitable Conflict Between English Settlers and Native Americans?
  5. Belief in Self-sufficiency: Living Off the Environment
  6. Choices for Development: Hamilton versus Jefferson
  7. The Hudson River and the Erie Canal
  8. Slave Spirituals and the American Spirit
  9. How Does War Impact on the Environment?
  10. The Mining Frontier: Boom and Bust
  11. Environmental Impacts of the Transcontinental Railroad
  12. Energy Transitions and U.S. History
  13. Save the Earth! But How?
  14. The Grapes of Wrath: A Study in Contrasts
  15. How Do the Preparations for War Impact on the Environment? The case of Picatinny Arsenal
  16. The Contributions of Major Religions and Philosophies to a Universal Environmental Ethic
  17. Nuclear Threat at Home: The Cold War's Lethal Leftovers
  18. Business and the Environment
  19. Save the Earth II! Organizations' Approaches
  20. Model Senate Hearing on the Environment
Student Assessment
Acknowledgements

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