Water and Agricultural Job Development, Past vs Present
Students will look at the development of jobs in the water and agricultural sector. They will learn more about ancient jobs as well as more about modern jobs.
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Hiring Request for Main Break Repair Team
Students will apply operations with rational numbers to a real-world hiring scenario, analyzing salaries and budgets to assemble a main break repair team while considering education, experience, and cost-effectiveness.
Researching Water and Race
Students will explore the connections between water access, race, and environmental justice by conducting academic research, analyzing sources, and writing a practice research paragraph that prepares them for a larger Social Justice Research Paper.
Recycling Water is More than the Water Cycle
Purifying water with household materials to explore the process and effort of removing pollutants.
Local History and Uncovering the Hidden
Students will uncover the hidden histories of their school and neighborhood—once a PG&E processing site, built on landfill, and an evacuation center after the 1989 earthquake. Using the Question Formulation Technique, they’ll explore three themes: liquefaction, water, and power.
Water Work: Exploring Careers That Shape Our Future
Students will look at slides that describe various water stewardship careers. Based on their own interests and strengths, they will consider which water related career could be a good fit for them.
Environmental Injustices
Students use data and maps to investigate environmental injustices across San Francisco districts, applying two-way tables to quantitatively explore the lasting impacts of historical redlining on communities.
Housing in San Francisco
Students explore environmental justice, urban housing, and sustainable building strategies by designing a multifamily housing model that incorporates water, energy, and waste-reduction solutions, guided by expert insights from professionals in sustainable city planning and engineering.
Water Stories
Students will view and analyze a model PSA and learn about the sewer system in San Francisco.