Ecoleaders Career Center
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Provided by: National Wildlife Federation|Published on: January 2, 2024
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Synopsis
- This career center resource includes an eco-career planning tool, job sector breakdowns, and interviews with individuals in green careers to help students understand the vast opportunities associated with sustainability.
- For educators and guidance counselors, there is a toolkit available with resources to help facilitate students in their career exploration journey.
Subjects: Civics, Engineering, Career Skills
Authors: National Wildlife Federation, EcoLeaders
Region: North America, United States
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- With the Career Planning Tool, students can conveniently house their insights and learning as they research sustainable careers that may interest them.
- Students will benefit from the many personal accounts of individuals with experience in green careers.
Additional Prerequisites
- Students must create a free account to use the career planning tool.
- Students who want to take the reflection surveys linked in the career planning tool must create accounts on some additional platforms.
Differentiation
- Students can use the career sector outlooks as sources for creating presentations to inform others about one of the sectors.
- Guidance counselors can use this resource for career planning with students.
- Math students can create graphs to compare data from the job sectors, such as salary and outlook.
- The job sector sections provide a multitude of avenues for further learning, as the sectors relate to environmental justice, green building, clean energy, green infrastructure, ecosystem services, adaptation and mitigation strategies, the role of agriculture in climate change, and many other topics that science or social studies teachers can cover in an additional lesson or unit.
- After reading about student-led sustainability projects, students can work in groups to develop and propose a project for their school.
This resource has a collection of tools, articles, and resources that allow readers to explore different green/ environmentally conscious career paths. The resource gives readers an idea of how wide the scope of green careers is and how many different sectors and industries focus on the environment. Registration is required to access the site, but it is free to do so. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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About the Partner Provider
National Wildlife Federation
The mission of the National Wildlife Federation is to unite all Americans to ensure wildlife thrives in a rapidly changing world. The National Wildlife Federation believes that in order to save wildlife and ourselves, we need to ensure that all Americans have access to clean air and water, safe communities, easy and equitable access to nature, and protection from the ravages of climate change. NWF has a long and respected track record in the field of environmental education and is a leader in applying nature and wildlife conservation to improve K-12 student achievement, particularly in the STEM disciplines, and fostering youth leadership and environmental stewardship. Our programs allow individuals to explore, analyze and take action on many key environmental issues facing communities, such as climate change, wildlife conservation, and environmental justice, with the end result of creating healthy, resilient, just, and thriving communities.
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