New! Energy & Environment Exploration Modules

This set of 6 education resources (nicknamed the EEE Modules) is designed to help middle and high school age youth experience and interpret New York City's energy and environment from a sustainability perspective.

These timely resources are adaptable for different learning objectives and time frames. Each of the six 6-page illustrated modules include:

• learning objectives,
  
• indoor and outdoor mapmaking tips and field reports,
  
• vocabulary, essay and discussion suggestions,
  
• activities to chart environmental assets and address important skills, topics and issues related to sustainability.

Educators and youth group leaders can copy an entire module or just the relevant page(s) for your students or use them on computer screens. The Educator's Guide is provided in text format so you can edit and adapt sections, as needed, or blend them into ongoing curriculum or projects.
By using these modules and creating Green Maps, students will gain a first-hand understanding of these complicated themes and how to make everyday choices that are more sustainable.

Teachers and other youth group leaders can decide to do a single-session exploration, or a longer project. The Educators Guide includes background on standards, mapmaking resources, answers to module questions and connections to online resources offered by our own and other NYC organizations. Green Map System hopes that these modules and mapmaking exercises are useful to you in exploring energy use, energizing youth participation in sustainability activities, and meeting essential learning standards. Created in mid-2007, educators and youth group leaders can download these new tools free with the understanding that:

• This is the beta version of the EEE Modules.
  
• When you download a single or set of modules, it will be packaged with a Guide - please review before using the EEE Modules.
  
• Your feedback is required on our short online Survey.
  
• Your resulting Green Maps and other creative outcomes will be instructive to us and to future users of the final version of the modules.
  
• Green Map System intends to make an adaptable global version of the EEE Modules in the coming months.

For more information, or to help spread the news about these new EEE Modules, download a Press Release or Slideshow.

Special thanks to our supporters:

• New York City Environmental Fund
  
• The Body Shop Foundation
  
• Seventh Generation

We very much appreciate having complete contact information from all users of these modules. Please fill in this form (don't forget your city, state, zip and country if outside the US), then click submit.

Choose a Module: Complete Set Module 1 - Using the Powerful Green Map Module 2 - School Energy Resources Module 3 - Reduce Reuse Recycle Module 4 - Charting Street Trees & Green Space Module 5 - Car-Free Mobility Module 6 - Waterways as Transportation
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These modules are free for use by NYC classroom and community educators through the 2007-08 school year. Educators are welcome to copy these copyrighted materials for educational purposes. If you wish to reprint or publish them online, in part or in whole, you must obtain written permission in advance from Green Map System. Don't forget to come back and fill in our Survey!

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Module Topics:

Using the
Powerful Green Map of NYC


School Energy Resources


Reduce Reuse Recycle


Street Trees & Green Space


Car-Free Mobility


Waterways as Transportation