Curriculum and Courses

We Offer Middle School and High School Curriculum and Courses

The Cloud Institute has a variety of curriculum and courses available for individual purchase. Grades listed below are suggested grade levels and may vary for your location. Curriculum is available in hard copy or digital.

 

From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems: Challenges and 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. (190 pages). View the Table of Contents

 

 

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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. (347 pages). View the Table of Contents

 

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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. (219 pages). 

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Read a review of this unit by Dr. David C.Korten

 

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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. 

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EfS Curriculum Design Workbook

(with CD) Sections include the EfS Content Standards, Performance Indicators and Framework, Curriculum Design Worksheets, Templates and Exemplars, Assessment Tools for Assessing Your Practice, Student Work and the Curriculum, and Additional Resources.

 

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Cloud Fish Game Guide

The Fish Game Guide includes the fish game, instructions on how to facilitate the fish game, and how to debrief the fish game. This is a very useful tool if you are looking to implement the fish game in your class or organization.

 

 

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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. 

 

View the Introduction, Table of Contents, Scope and Sequence and Learning Outcomes. Also read the AED Evaluation Report.

 

$400 (+ $15 S&H) for Inventing the Future Teacher site license for one school, includes 550 page curriculum and CD.

 

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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. 

 

View the Table of Contents, Scope and Sequence and Indicators. Read the AED Evaluation Report.

 

$400 (+ $15 S&H) for BEE21 site license for one school, includes includes 550 page curriculum and CD.

 

 

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Library Package I

(downloadable PDF's)

 

1) From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems
2) Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide
3) The Paper Trail
4) Changing Consumption Patterns
5) Inventing the Future

 

$500 for all 5

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Library Package II

(downloadable PDF's)

 

1) From Global Hunger to Sustainable Food Systems
2) Sustainable Food Systems Activity Guide
3) The Paper Trail
4) Changing Consumption Patterns

 

$150 for all 2

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Ecological Economics: A Community Exploration (adult)

 

This 2-day workshop guide includes a collection of readings, activities, reflections, and experiences to provide community stakeholders, individually and in groups, with a practical introduction to ecological economics. (200 pages)

 

Ecological Economics for Life is an admirable pedagogical program of participatory learning that elicits, explains, and integrates the basic principles and issues of ecological economics. ~Herman E. Daly

 

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