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« Learning to Live Sustainably through a Kindergartener’s Eyes
Water Sustainability: Water, Water, Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink »

Environmental Sustainability: Hunger in the Class Room

Alexandra Kennedy Edwards, Social Studies, Bailey Middle School

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Posted on June 4, 2012 by clas-web. This entry was posted in 2010, Curriculum Units, Vol 6: Environmental Sustainability: Science, Society and Solutions. Bookmark the permalink.
« Learning to Live Sustainably through a Kindergartener’s Eyes
Water Sustainability: Water, Water, Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink »
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      • Charlotte as Teaching Canvas: Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms and Equity-Mindsets by Engaging in Local African, Latinx, and Southeast Asian Diasporic Spaces
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      • Climate Refugee Stories
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      • Illuminate Yourself! The Science of Glow
      • Anti-Racism and Pedagogy: What Does it Mean to be an Anti-racist Teacher?
      • Mindfulness & Education: Transforming Learning Through Awareness
      • Black Girl Magic (Mis)Understood: Representations and Perceptions of Black Women and Girls in the Education System
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      • Frankly Speaking: White Privilege
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      • Africa: Beneath the Headlines
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      • Time Travel: Using Music to Explore Past, Present, and Future Messages
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      • The Art and Chemistry of Light
      • It’s About Time
      • Nurturing Nature: Epigenetics as a Way to Explore Social Justice
      • Writing about Our Lives: A Genre Study of Memoir
      • Exploring American Sacred Values
      • “A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small”: Teaching Human Rights
      • Insights into Latino Communities in Charlotte Today
      • Animals, Culture, and Society
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      • Using Mathematics to Understand Social Issues
      • Media and Minorities: Unpacking Stereotypes
      • Chemical Interactions in the Body
      • Memorials, Memories, and American Identity
      • Doing Science: Hands-On Learning in the Laboratory
      • Cultivating Visual Literacy
      • The Rise (and Fall) of Democracies around the World
      • From Self to Students: Canvassing Art to Explore Identity
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      • Literacy and Literacies in the 21st Century
      • How Science is Done: A Behind the Scenes Look at Scientific Research
      • The Many Faces of Capitalism around the Globe — Past and Present
      • Writing with Power: No Fear Here
      • FUNdamental Ideas in Math for Grades PreK-12
      • It’s a Small World! Exploring Science at the Tiniest Scale
      • Tracing the Legacy of Hispanic Cultures — 1492 to Today
      • Exploring Memoir — From Picture Book to Digital Story
    • 2015 Seminars
      • 2015 CTI Fellows List
      • Exercise and the Brain
      • What Makes a Nation?
      • The Origins of Human Language
      • Fundamentals of Mathematics: Problem Solving and Process Standards
      • Peace Education: Psychological Factors that Endorse War
      • Integrating Concepts in Life Sciences
      • Africa: Moving Beyond Popular Culture
      • Supernatural Figures in Theatre, Film and the Brain
    • 2014 Seminars
      • 2014 CTI Fellows List
      • Artificial Intelligence
      • The Global Energy Challenge
      • Metamorphosis: Transformative Experiences
      • Intersections of Science, Technology and Culture
      • Human Agency
      • The Art of Fiction: Close Analysis, Style and the Novel
      • Visual Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
      • Heroes, Rebels and Rock Stars: Cultural Icons in Modern Europe
    • 2013 Seminars
      • Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections at the Levine Museum of the New South
      • The Nature of Energy: How We Use and Store It to Power Our Everyday Lives
      • Math and Sports
      • Imagining Modern Bodies: Disability and Art at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
      • Grammar for the Real World
      • Human Social Groups
      • Chemical Magic
      • Urban Encounters: Hispanic and African American Literature
    • 2012 Seminars
      • African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement
      • All Immigration is Local: Exploring the New Geography of Immigration
      • American Political Parties: Their Failures and Their Futures
      • Entertaining with Math
      • Environmental Science and Climate Change
      • Reading African American Lives
      • Reading Media Imagery: Critical Thinking and Literacy
      • The Science of NASCAR
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