Description In this course, students will explore the connection between personal care products and disproportionate rates of harm toward People of Color. Using a systems thinking approach, students will learn how beauty injustices, such as colorism, skin color, and hair discrimination, lead to higher chemical exposure and higher rates of asthma, cancers, and endocrine disorders. Students will use consumer product safety databases to screen their personal care products. They will analyze … [Read more...] about Environmental Injustice in the Beauty Industry
Grade 10
Media Influence: Crafting Your Voice in a Digital World
Description In this dynamic, project-based ESL Level 3-4 course, students will dive into the world of media to explore how advertisements, social media, and public service announcements shape our beliefs, identities, and communities. By analyzing real-world media, students will uncover how persuasive techniques such as ethos, pathos, and logos are used to influence audiences—equipping them to navigate and critique the messages they encounter every day. This course is culturally responsive, … [Read more...] about Media Influence: Crafting Your Voice in a Digital World
Science Ambassadors: Outreach Activities that Empower Youth to be Scientists
Description High school Science Ambassador students research common everyday products and their potential hazards, then choose a product they’d like to try making a safer version of using green chemistry principles. Students spend weeks in the lab to pilot different procedures and incorporate green chemistry principles to optimize their safer alternatives. Then, Science Ambassador students visit K-8 classrooms and inspire the younger children to become scientists while doing hands-on … [Read more...] about Science Ambassadors: Outreach Activities that Empower Youth to be Scientists
Duty or Duty Free
Description In this course, we will analyze ways that people living in the United States can engage in their communities in order to make their specific communities better. Additionally, we will analyze the difference between duties and responsibilities and look closely on how both duties and responsibilities have an impact on a local and federal level. Through civic engagement and responsibility, we are able to work collectively to ensure that the people hold power and that they know they can … [Read more...] about Duty or Duty Free
Money Talks! Let’s Make it Work for You!
Description During this financial literacy course, students will learn the core tenets of financial planning, spending and budgeting, and financial markets and investing. This course is perfect for teens who are interested in learning more about personal finance. All of the information learned in this course will be practical and applicable to daily life. Students will ultimately learn how to create a financial plan, how saving and budgeting impact future goals, and how to invest! Money talks, … [Read more...] about Money Talks! Let’s Make it Work for You!
Civic Engagement in Our Democracy
Description How can we, as educators, engage students in deeper civic learning to become authentic, informed, and skilled changemakers? Civic Engagement in Our Democracy is a high school course that seeks to help students identify what they value, deepen what they understand, and develop what they can do to be self-caring, reciprocal, and self-confident changemakers. This course provides students and teachers with the tools they need to experience deeper civic learning to support students’ … [Read more...] about Civic Engagement in Our Democracy