Curriculum Integration Inquiries

The following list of inquiries is intended to engage both teachers andstudents in possibilities across traditional academic disciplines.

Leadership Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. Define and defend the leadership qualitiesneeded to achieve sustainability within a generation?
  1. Synthesize how the central teachings in the Eagle Eye legend expand your sense of purpose and calling as a leader.
  1. As a leader, what set of stories do you live by. What is your internal guiding legend that you think can motivate others to follow your lead?
  1. Design a project of significance in your community that incorporates and applies these teachings.
  1. Eagle Eye is a metaphor for the urgent need for leaders to pierce the mask of the world as it appears to be and present a powerful, practical vision of how the world can be. What’s your vision?

Science Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. Analyze the central ecological and economic teachings in the Eagle Eye legend.
  1. Synthesize how these teachings expand your understanding of the relationship between ecological and economic systems.
  1. Build a working definition or set of principles for ecological systems.
  1. What are the attributes of systems thinking? What skills does it take?
  1. Analyze the tension between biodiversity and human population?
  1. What is the correct speed for biological evolution? Social evolution? Technological evolution? The shadow of these questions asks “what is the correct speed for extinction?”
  1. What evidence do we have for achieving sustainability within a generation? What are the consequences if we don’t?
  1. What is the role of science in society?
  1. What is the role of traditional ecological knowledge, the wisdom of indigenous learning, in science and society today?
  1. Prove sustainability.

Economic Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. Build a working definition or set of principles for ecological economics. What are the economic services of ecological systems that are rarely accounted for in current economic theory and public policy?
  1. Does Nature have an economy? If a core definition of economics is “an exchange of goods and services,” then how would you exemplify Nature’s economic activity?
  1. Analyze how marketing strategies arebeing applied in the rapid shift from the industrial economy to the sustainable economy.
  1. Create a marketing plan to introduce the best ideas, products and lifestyles for achieving sustainability to other populations; classes like yours in other schools, adult groups in the community, local business leaders, local elected officials.
  1. Define and defend the triple bottom line.

Indigenous People Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. Build a working definition or set of principles for traditional ecological knowledge. Outline the traditional economic model followed by indigenous people. What are the lessons of these models of sustainability for today?
  1. What does systems thinking mean? How do indigenous people model systems thinking?
  1. In the emerging sustainable economy what will it mean for all people to become “indigenous?”

Career Planning Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. When does a career path begin? Interview 3-5 local experts on a range of sustainability issues to find out the path they took to their current career.
  1. Define and defend how careers of the next 25-50 years will be fundamentally related to the principles of sustainability.

History Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. How have the principles of sustainability caused human civilizations to expand orcollapse throughout history? Where are we today on this continuum?
  1. What does the next 20 years of our future teach us about the last 200 years of our history?

Government Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. How are policies and laws made?
  1. How do you participate in policy development and law making?
  1. Analyze the natural laws laid out by each of the characters in the Eagle Eye legend.
  1. To achieve sustainability within the next generation what laws will we need to remember? What laws will we need to invent?

Philosophical Eagle Eye Inquiries

  1. What are the systemic consequences when citizens, business leaders and political leaders fail to understand the relationship between ecological and economic systems? What are the opportunities if we do? Do you have evidence?
  1. What are the ethical dimensions in the relationship between ecological and economic systems, between biodiversity and human population?
  1. What is the power to name things? What comes first, thinking or language?
  1. Does Nature need humans?
  1. If the golden rule were applied to future generations, how would we asses our behavior in their eyes.
  1. What is the central metaphor in the Eagle Eye legend that proves to be the turning point for human learning?
  1. Define and defend your future life as a responsible citizen.