Module 1: Sustaining Global Resources
Students will understand the importance of natural laws in complex systems and how they relate to global resources. Students will understand that all systems have limits, and that healthy systems live within their limits.
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
- Describe the natural limits of resources, and how those limits contribute to healthy systems.
- Identify renewable and non-renewable resources.
- Describe a product’s life cycle.
- Make creative choices that respect the physical law of limits to address the impact and cycle of resource usage.
Module 2: Protecting Healthy Biodiversity
Students will understand the importance of diversity in complex systems. Biological and other diversity makes systems stronger and healthier.
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
- Explore the importance of biodiversity and the balance of all living organisms.
- Understand the specific role that humans play in maintaining healthy biodiversity.
- Define biomimicry and explore how we can leverage it to solve our sustainability challenges.
- Develop a pledge around conscious consumption to rebalance and maintain our biodiversity.
Module 3: Positively Impacting Climate Change
Students will understand the importance of materials on complex systems, and specifically how CO2 relates to climate change. Students will understand that climate change can be reversed.
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
- Hypothesize about what it will take to contribute to the restoration and regeneration of a virtual place they created.
- Explain Earth’s natural balance (dynamic equilibrium) of greenhouse gases and gas absorption or capture.
- Develop a pledge that will reduce our over-production of CO2 equivalents in the atmosphere using information learned from the course.
Module 4: Innovating for a Healthy Life
Students will understand the importance of adaptability in complex systems and how adaptability relates to human health.
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to…
- Describe the complexity of needs required to keep human life healthy.
- Explain the importance of caring for a shared resource set to make a healthy life possible for everyone.
- Define adaptability and delineate between adapting to decline and adapting for sustainability.
- Reconcile individual rights with collective responsibilities through a pledge.