Carey Moncaster
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Carey Moncaster is the instructional designer and manager of the Stanford e-China Program. She launched the program as instructor for the inaugural course, Technologies Changing the World: Design Thinking into Action, and now designs and manages Climate Tech Innovation and U.S.-China Collaboration and Design Thinking into Action: Teen Well-being. She is also co-instructor for the U.S.–China Co-Lab on Climate Solutions, which brings together students from both the United States and China in one classroom.
She has worked as a curriculum consultant for the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) on additional projects, including co-authoring curriculum units:
Sustainable Development and Modern China
Understanding China in the 21st Century
Carey worked in Seattle’s high tech world of start-up ventures, collaborating with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and industry professionals. Prior, Carey founded and served as Executive Director of Pacific Village Institute for ten years, with programs based in China, India, Vietnam, New York, and Seattle, working with educational leaders and organizations to develop and implement global education programs in Asia and the U.S. for students and educators from over 100 public and independent high schools.
Carey lived in China off and on from the early 1990s though 2006 working at Nanjing and Zhejiang Universities, as well as with environmental NGOs in Beijing and Yunnan Province with a focus on water and energy issues. She received her M.A. from Stanford University with a focus on modern China, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley. Carey was selected by the Asia Society as a U.S. delegate to join the Asia21 Global Leadership Forum and cohort.
Instructional Designer and Manager, Stanford e-China
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Water Issues in China
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Rapid urbanization and economic development are straining China's natural sources of fresh water. Aquifer levels are dropping, lakes are disappearing, rivers are drying up or becoming polluted, and air contaminants are producing acid rain. Water shortages plague over half of China’s cities. Today, water is one of China’s most crucial issues.
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Secondary - Community College
10,000 Shovels: China's Urbanization and Economic Development
10,000 Shovels examines China's breakneck growth through a short documentary that integrates statistics, video footage, and satellite images. The documentary focuses on China's Pearl River Delta region while the accompanying teacher's guide takes a broader perspective, exploring many current national issues.
Geography and the Human Experience
This unit introduces students to a range of topics and activities that are essential to the study of geography such as map analysis and comparison, migration and perceptions of regions, interactions between humans and the environment and their implications, and urban growth and energy consumption.
Visions of History: The Aztecs and the Spanish
Small-group activities encourage students to become historians as they evaluate letters from Hernando Cortés, poetry from the Aztecs, and pictures of the Danza de la Conquista. They come away from this unit with a richer knowledge of the Aztec/Spanish encounters; an understanding of concepts such as bias, perspective, interpretation, and balance; and an appreciation for the complexity of writing history.