Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

Lesson Title: The Environment, Jobs and Change

Course: Economics 1; Geography 2; Sociology 2

Expected Learning Objectives: Students will be able to:

1. Participate in conversations, discussions, and group activities
2. Speak clearly and ask questions
3. Review the current state of the energy/climate change crisis in the United States.
4. Synthesize, analyze, evaluate and summarize information gathered from films and readings on climate change.
5. Identify problems, issues, and questions regarding climate change and the green economy.
6. Evaluate a problem, facts, assumptions, issues, and values about climate change.
7. Identify and assess different proposals to solve the climate change and renewable energy crisis.
8. Apply problem-solving techniques to the identified issue(s) of climate change.
9. Organize ideas and communicate orally and in writing the problems and possible solutions to the climate crisis.
10. Create a plan of action to resolve the issue they identify about climate change.

Key Concepts: Green jobs, climate change, global warming, sustainable products, alternative energy, renewable energy, clean energy economy, supply/demand, cost, economic policy, and energy policy