An interdisciplinary senior seminar can focus an entire course on food systems and sustainability

Evidence

In the fall of 2006, three teachers from Souhegan High School in Amherst New Hampshire, representing Social Studies, English/Language Arts, and Science, launched an interdisciplinary seminar for 12th graders focused on food systems and sustainability. Gary Schnakenberg, Ken Boisselle, and Melissa Chapman, joined by Rebecca while on sabbatical, planned and implemented this course, and were supported by a faculty Committee on Sustainability that served in an advisory capacity. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1846

Categorization

• XREF: Models cross-disciplinary team-teaching design a teacher-education reader could adapt to their own High School classroom. — connects to: Essential questions structure community-based eco-justice learning projects. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1867; Thematic curriculum can unite every subject around a local environmental place — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1842

Broader Connections

• Thematic curriculum can unite every subject around a local environmental place #expands (0.78) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1842