GMPC+Projects

__Green Magnet Production Company (GMPC) Projects__
__GMPC Topics of Study, Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Enduring Understandings, Focusing Questions__ Remembrance, reminisce ||
 * Content || Big Ideas || EQs – Enduring Understanding (EU) || Focusing Questions? || Words ||
 * 9/11 || Commemoration || * Can we change our world by sharing?
 * Does remembering significant moments in our history help us fulfill our lives?
 * Do we remember sadness for only one day a year, and then forget its meaning for 364 days.
 * What happened to your older relatives and friends on 9/11?
 * How can we commemorate 9/11?
 * What thoughts and questions do you have about 9/11? ||  || Commemorate, zeitgeist, ethos,
 * The Green Magnet School || A Magical Place || * How can we make our school a magical place?
 * If we share the magic inside each of us, our school will be magical?
 * What can you do to make your classrooms magical? ||  ||   ||
 * Arts & Tech:

Law & Govt

Math & Sci Humanities || Aesthetics- School __Beautification__ Social & Environmental __Justice__ __ Innovation __ __ Culture __ || * Can aesthetics/justice/innovation/culture help us envision, describe, and create sustainable lives? Inquiry || * If we use something, what are our responsibilities for it? extraction, production, distribution, consumption, disposal, linear system finite planet, consumerism obsolescence, perceived obsolescence || Living Lightly on Earth || * What is the difference between humans’ needs and wants? advertisement brainwash, brainwashed, brainwashing insidious || 7 Billion || Sustainability Interdependence Balance ||  || * Can we sustain our current trend in population? overpopulation, demographics/ demographer/ demography || Interdependence || * Are humans interdependent with the natural world? Energy Lifestyle || * Are we responsible for the Earth? biomimicry, shale, timely hydraulic fracturing, kairos propitious ||
 * EU: The devil is in the details.
 * What is aesthetics? Environmental Justice? Innovation? Culture?
 * What can we do to beautify our school? ||  || Students will closely observe by drawing including details: lines, patterns, shape, texture ||
 * Story of Stuff || Consumerism
 * Can how we use stuff affect ourselves, others, and the Earth?
 * Vote With Your Wallet.
 * Create Rather Than Consume
 * ||  || materials economy:
 * Commercials || Consumerism
 * What emotions and lifestyles do the commercials relate to their products/
 * What influences our decision to buy?
 * What are the commercials selling ||  || commercial
 * Population
 * What do we have to do, if we want Earth to support 9 Billion? || billions, trends, trending up,
 * Bees || Collapse/
 * What service do bees provide mankind? What can we learn ||  ||   ||
 * Fracking || Stewardship
 * Why care?
 * Can we make a difference?
 * What is the science, math, legal, social, and personal issues regarding fracking? ||  || conundrum, biophilia,
 * What is the science, math, legal, social, and personal issues regarding fracking? ||  || conundrum, biophilia,
 * Gratitude || Gratitude || * Can we read, write, listen, think, and speak about gratitude to improve our lives and our health?
 * ||  || gratitude, extol, extolled, virtue, delve, hassle ||