Aimed at 6th-12th grade science and social studies teachers, this class explores the connections between economic growth and environmental sustainability. How should a society manage its critical natural resources, such as timber, water and energy to accommodate both economic development and a clean environment?

There will be discussions and activities about the effects of global forests and the people who live in them, forest-based economies, climate change, and other environmental issues. This class will also supply teachers with a classroom simulation that helps students to understand how their daily decisions create an environmental “footprint.” The class is jointly taught by Colorado Project Learning Tree and the Colorado Council for Economic Education.


WHERE: Jefferson County Extension Office, 15200 W 6th Ave, Golden

WHEN: Saturday, October 17, 2009

COST: $40,

Includes breakfast, lunch, PLT activiy guide "Global Connections: Forests of the World", and Jared Diamond's book, Collapse.

CREDIT: 1/2 credit available CU -$35 or CSM -$30

REGISTER: online

Call or email Shawna Crocker at 303-202-4662, scrocker@colostate.edu for more information. or visit the Colorado Council for Economic Education


Project Learning Tree (R) is the environmental education program of the American Forest Foundation and sponsored in Colorado by the Colorado State Forest Service