Future Focus
The Letter or email sent to employers as well as your application
What is a cover letter?
This process helps turn old paper, plastic, and metal into new products.
What is recycling?
an invasive tree brought by europeans for medicinally,vanity, and dyes.
What is Buckthorn?
This city is known as the "Windy City" and is the largest city near the Cook County Forest Preserves.
What is Chicago?
This app is known for short videos, trends, dances, and viral challenges.
What is TikTok?
Before an interview, you should learn about this.
What is the company?
This community often experiences environmental racism because hazardous facilities are placed nearby.
What are low-income or minority communities?
This process allows trees to make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
This group created in 1998 works to protect and restore the Forest Preserves of Cook County.
Who are Friends of the Forest Preserves?
This streaming service is known for shows like Stranger Things and Wednesday.
What is netflix
This type of goal is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.
What is a SMART goal?
This Chicago neighborhood became known for environmental justice activism because of pollution concerns.
What is Altgeld Gardens?
Oaks are considered this type of species because hundreds of insects, birds, and mammals depend on them for food and shelter.
What is a keystone species?
Before European settlement, these people cared for and lived on the lands that are now the Cook County Forest Preserves.
Who are Native American tribes (such as the Council of Three Fires)?
This Chicago-born artist is known for albums like Graduation, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, and 808s & Heartbreak.
Who is Kanye West?
Employers value this skill because it helps people solve problems together.
What is communication?
This gas is the main greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide (CO₂)?
Removing invasive buckthorn helps these native plants and young trees grow by allowing more of this to reach the forest floor.
What is sunlight?
During FPE, teens learn about conservation careers while doing this type of hands-on environmental work.
What is ecological restoration?
This singer's album Blonde is praised for its experimental sound and was released in 2016.
Who is Frank Ocean?
Saying "please" and "thank you" shows good workplace ________.
What is etiquette?
She is widely known as the "Mother of Environmental Justice" for her work fighting pollution in Chicago.
Who is Hazel M. Johnson?
This type of ecosystem once covered much of northeastern Illinois and is maintained by native trees, grasses, and periodic fire.
What is an oak savanna?
This landscape designer helped inspire the creation of the Forest Preserves by advocating for protecting natural areas near Chicago.
Who is Jens Jensen?
This scientist developed the theory of relativity and the famous equation E=mc².
Who is Albert Einstein?