Interdisciplinary Teaching About Earth and the Environment for a Sustainable Future
Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth and Environment for a Sustainable Future presents the outcomes of the InTeGrate project, a community effort funded by the National Science Foundation to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues. The I...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03273-9 |
Table of Contents:
- Part1. Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future
- Chapter1. Preparing Students to Address Grand Challenges and Wicked Problems: The InTeGrate Approach
- Chapter2. The InTeGrate materials development rubric: A framework and process for developing curricular materials that meet ambitious goals
- Chapter3. Facilitating the development of effective interdisciplinary curricular materials
- Chapter4. Supporting implementation of program-level changes to increase learning about Earth
- Chapter5. Measuring literacy, attitudes, and capacities to solve societal problems
- Part2. Earth and sustainability across the curriculum
- Chapter6. Implementing and assessing InTeGrate Critical Zone Science materials in an undergraduate geoscience program
- Chapter7. Multidisciplinary and Topical in the Science Classroom: Regulating Carbon Emissions to Mitigate Climate Change
- Chapter8. Tackling the Wicked Problem of Global Food Security: Engaging undergraduates through ArcGIS Online
- Chapter9. Using Ecosystem Services to Engage Students in Public Dialogue about Water Resources
- Chapter10. Teaching societal risk and resilience through systems analysis of major storms
- Chapter11. Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk through an Active Learning-Based Educational Module
- Chapter12. Renewable energy and environmental sustainability
- Part3. Models for change within the higher education system
- Chapter13. Implementing InTeGrate materials in an Upper Division Undergraduate Engineering course
- Chapter14. Modified use of the InTeGrate curriculum in the sustainability general education program at California State University, Chico
- Chapter15. Use of InTeGrate materials to enhance collaboration in the El Paso Higher Education Community
- Chapter16. Creating Opportunities to Teach and Engage with Undergraduates and Faculty at Two-Year Colleges and Minority Serving Institutions
- Chapter17. HBCUs broadening participation in geosciences.