Summer Institute 2012
University of Manitoba
 Invocation - Michael
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the
world, and that is an idea whose time has come.”
-Victor Hugo
 Topic: The Environmental Pillar
 Discussion of Berry video, Earth Charter, “If Nature
Had Rights”
 Share your informal response
 Share your questions
 Select one question that will lead a
five to ten minute whole group
discussion
Your reaction?
Discuss the connections made between the “story” and
the environmental pillar, the economic pillar and the
social pillar of sustainability.
 Group 6 describes the sustainable aspects of their menu
 Shelter Shuffle
 How can this activity be connected across the
curriculum?
 How does this activity connect to systems thinking?
 Story of Stuff - vote
What is it?
 Using Bronfenbrenner’s Bio-ecological Model of
Human Development as one example, what might the
systems be that impact a teacher wishing to
incorporate sustainability principles, values and/or
topics in his or her teaching?
 Draw and label a diagram that shows these systems
and the relationships between systems.
 Bring a card (provided) and a pen for another activity
 Please prepare a list of what you need to live well
 Readings (Topics and Readings sent to you by Mike
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and on the Wiki)
Informal response (IR)
Come with a group discussion question
Daily Reflective Journal (DRJ)
What’s in a name activity for Monday 09 July