Exploring Green Careers - A High School Curriculum

• LOCATION: Solar One Environmental Education Center at Stuyvesant Cove Park, 800 FDR Dr Service Rd East (between E20th and E23rd), Manhattan
• DATE & TIME: Monday, August 4 - Tuesday, August 5, 2026, 9am - 3pm daily
• LED BY: Joshua Frost
• CTLE AVAILABLE: 12
• THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR: High school teachers looking to incorporate green career exploration and sustainability into their science, or other, classroom.

Are you looking for ways to incorporate more career exploration and sustainability topics into your curriculum? In this two-day workshop, you will get a hands-on introduction to the Exploring Sustainability and the Green Economy curriculum. We’ll take a hands-on approach to show you how to use this curriculum in which your students will learn about the impacts of climate change, and about sustainability with an emphasis on understanding the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), while also exploring green skills, climate justice and a thorough overview of a multitude of green careers that are highlighted in the Bureau of Labor Standards’ green career clusters. These are the careers that both the US government and the energy sector believe are essential for growing our nation’s green workforce so we can both develop sustainably and provide our students with a true role in shaping our nation’s drive towards decarbonization.

This curriculum can be used in a variety of ways: in mini units that focus on providing an overview of sustainability; unpacking green skills and learning about a myriad of different careers aligned to the green economy; or as a full one-year course that fits neatly in a science course sequence but could be just seamlessly incorporated into a humanities elective with its emphasis on economics and other social studies related context. You’ll learn how to create and develop 4 big projects, with activities and grading rubrics for each, and how to differentiate the projects to meet your school community’s specific academic goals.

Through the two larger units that provide an overview of sustainability, career exploration, plus the associated capstone and marketing projects, your students will link the NYC sustainable development goals and initiatives with the UN’s goals, look at a variety of careers in key green career sectors aligned with these goals, and develop visual, written, printed, and other works for presentation and review by their classmates. A truly multidisciplinary project which will instill in your students the importance of their career choices, and, we hope, inspire them to develop and follow their own passions!

We thank Solar One for the support for this workshop which has allowed us to offer the workshop at a reduced price, and for inviting us to host this workshop at their facilities!

Joshua Frost is a veteran NYC Public Schools social studies teacher with over 25 years of experience, currently teaching AP Macroeconomics and Government at Brooklyn Technical High School. He designs curriculum that connects course content to real-world applications and has contributed to NYC DOE curriculum writing teams, interdisciplinary initiatives, and the Sustainability Pathway, helping pilot and promote Exploring Sustainability and the Green Economy with Solar1 and STEMteachersNYC. His work has earned multiple grants and fellowships, including the Alfred P. Sloan Champion Award, Fund for Teachers grants, and an Annenberg Civic Education Fellowship, and has led to innovative project-based learning in his classroom. Joshua has also served on DOE leadership teams focused on climate education, curriculum diversity, and equity, and led students to a Fed Challenge victory with a published podcast script. Beyond the classroom, he is active in his community, including serving on Manhattan’s Community Board 2.

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