Lesson 1. Explore Your Community

LESSON 1. EXPLORE YOUR COMMUNITY

This lesson will help learners discover which socio-economic conditions are negatively impacting their community and map the local resources that are available to help address, reduce and/or eliminate them.
NEXT Steps Youth Entrepreneur Program · Monday, Mar 17 2025 10:01AM

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  • Overview
    Gives you an overview of the service goals, STEAM Investigative Process activities and results you can achieve during this course.
  • Recipe For A Sustainable Community
    Helps you identify existing resources that are currently being used to address socio-economic indicators that are positively or negatively impacting your community’s ecosystem.
  • Look Around
    Helps you reflect on a time when your community’s ecosystem was impacted by a natural phenomenon and determine if your experience through that ordeal could become an impact solution for others.
  • My Community’s Health Assessment
    Help you  assess and determine the availability, status and impact local resources are having on the socio-economic conditions positively or negatively affecting their community.
  • Mapping My Community’s Ecosystem
    Helps you use search engines and mapping apps to illustrate the health, availability, cost and/or value of the resources they locate within your community’s ecosystem
  • Call To Action
    By the end of this course, you should have reviewed and completed the service goals for this skill, conducted a pre- and post self-assessment to reflect a 30-80% gain in your high-demand employability skills, and used digital media technologies to document your achievements and results during your STEAM Investigative Process.

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Course Includes

  • 6 Lessons
  • 9 Quizzes