Curriculum Guide

For at least the past decade, many students in the United States have been exposed to a great amount of information about the need to protect the environment, at the local and global scale. Often, they have learned about rainforest destruction, pollution, global warming, and habitat loss, they may also be familiar with the conservation movement and maybe some of its history. Armed with these sensitivities, today's students are ready to tackle the difficult issues: they will attune easily to the problems inherent in the gap that currently divides the fight for racial equity and the environmental movement. The Center of the American West has created this curriculum guide as a way to help teachers and students use the conference materials to explore the questions addressed by the conference.

How to Use the Curriculum Guide

All of the conference materials and the curriculum guide are in PDF format. To download the materials, you will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software that enables you to open and read files in Portable Document Format or "PDFs". PDFs are small in file size and formatted for printing, eliminating many of the hassles of using materials created in HTML or other browser-specific languages. Information about Adobe Acrobat Reader is provided on the materials page, from which you can download all the materials.

In downloading the materials, you have a range of choices. You may download the entire document, or you can download only the essays and transcripts you wish to use. You may wish to download the curriculum guide first, decide on the lessons you wish to use in your classroom, and then download only the materials needed for those lessons. Click here for a complete list of materials.

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