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Opening Doors: Exploring the Green Economy with ESL Students
This curriculum explores employment and training opportunities for ESL students in the growing green economy. The green technology lesson plans are intended to support ESL and vocational students who are attending green training programs.
The lessons are appropriate for different levels of student proficiency in English and are intended to be incorporated into existing curriculum. The activities can be adapted for different student groups.
Green Collar Jobs: Exploring Opportunities
Through listening, reading, speaking, writing and researching local green construction training programs, students examine how green collar jobs present new opportunities.
Lesson Plan
Video Clip Illustrating Themes Explored in the Lesson
California Community College Green Jobs Training Programs
This map identifies California Community Colleges programs that offer Green Jobs training.
Map created by: Roy Robles - Career Ladders Project
View California Community College Green Jobs Training Programs in a larger map
Is a Green Economy the Key to Job Growth?
Drawing upon "You Decide — Challenge Your Assumptions," the lesson explores how moving toward renewable energy sources to reduce carbon emissions will create different types of jobs—green jobs. Students are encouraged to think through what those jobs will be and how the green economy may present them with training and career opportunities.
Lesson Plan
Is a green economy the key to job growth?
You Decide
Green Jobs and Green Entrepreneurs
Students explore the meaning of a green economy, analyze what is involved in being an entrepreneur and starting one's own business, while learning vocabulary and grammar and practicing listening, reading, speaking and writing skills.
Lesson Plan
Video Clip Illustrating Themes Explored in the Lesson
Green Collar Jobs in the Culinary Arts
Students locate and explore jobs in the culinary arts field that support a green environment, and reflect on the importance of the growth of a green economy in their own lives.
Lesson Plan
Video Clip Illustrating Themes Explored in the Lesson
Green Building Revolution
Students will develop an awareness of how the construction industry is becoming increasingly green through sustainable design and construction of buildings—that is, buildings constructed with water conservation and energy efficiency as guiding principles, together with the selection
of materials that protect the environment and the future of the planet.
Lesson Plan
Video
Clip Illustrating Themes Explored in the Lesson
Going Solar
This lesson focuses on energy efficiency, in particular the use of solar energy in the green building industry. Students will learn how solar panels are constructed and installed and how energy from the sun is captured and converted into electricity.
Lesson Plan
Media-Rich Resources
"Green Collar Jobs" (NOW on PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/445/
"The Future of Green Jobs" (NOW on PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/445/green-jobs.html
"Green Jobs: Hope or Hype" (NOW on PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/522/index.html
"The Veggie Van" (NOW on PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/522/veggie-van.html
"You Decide: Is a Green Economy the Key to Job Growth?"
http://uw.kqed.org/youdecide/polls/greenjobs.php
California Community College Green Jobs Training Programs
Interactive location map of community colleges in California offering green training programs
www.kqed.org/green-jobs
"Green Building Revolution" (QUEST)
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/155
"Solar City: The Future of Nanosolar"( QUEST)
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/solar-city-the-future-of-nanosolar
"Clue into Climate: Energy Sources"
http://www.kqed.org/education/educators/clue-into-climate/renewable-energy.jsp
Transcript
http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/education/educators/energy-sources-transcripts.pdf
"Clue into Climate: Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change"
http://uw.kqed.org/edresources/plans/lesson-1a-carbon-dioxide-and-climate-change.pdf?trackurl=true
"Clue into Climate: The Greenhouse Effect and Greenhouse Gases" (PDF)
http://www.kqed.org/assets/pdf/education/educators/the-greenhouse-effect.pdf
"National Geographic: Causes of Global Warming"
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-causes
"Sustainable Design" at the California Academy of Sciences
http://www.calacademy.org/academy/building/sustainable_design/
Slideshow of solar panel installation on the roof at KQED
http://www.kqed.org/assets/slideshow/solarpanelinstall/index.jsp
YouTube video on How Solar Power Works: Introduction to Photovoltaics at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCTSV2f36A&NR=1
Video of solar panel installation at
http://www.5min.com/Video/Solar-PanelInstallation-196579477
Useful Websites
Green For All
http://www.greenforall.org
An environmental group dedicated to bringing green jobs to the disadvantaged, offers information and resources on green collar jobs and how to find them
JobMonkey.com
http://www.jobmonkey.com/greenjobs/
Find seasonal or year-round jobs working for employers who can offer you unique opportunities to travel the world
Solar Living Institute
http://www.solarliving.org
A non-profit educational organization whose mission is to promote sustainable living through inspirational environmental education
QUEST Education
http://www.kqed.org/quest/education
Clue into Climate
http://www.kqed.org/education/educators/clue-into-climate/
ESL Post-Secondary Resources
www.kqed.org/eco-literacy
CityBuild Job Training Program
http://www.sfcta.org/content/view/281/101/
Green Launch Pad Program
http://www.heysf.org/city-college-of-san-francisco-offering-green-job-training-program-2386.html
Laney College's Green Energy Programs
http://www.laney.edu/wp/blog/2010/07/16/laneys-green-energy-program-featured-in-community-college-week/
Audio Link
"L.A.'s Push for Green Jobs"
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R809051630/d
Related Programming From KQED-KTEH, PBS and NPR
"Green Building Revolution" (QUEST)
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/155
"Trash on the Spin Cycle" (Ocean Adventures)
http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/video/gyre
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