Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Learner-centered teaching is a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the roles of students as participants in and drivers of their own learning. Learner-centered teaching activities go beyond traditional lecturing by helping students construct their own understanding of information, develop skills vi...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28543-6 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Which is Most Sustainable? Using Everyday Objects to Examine Trade-offs among the “Three Pillars” of Sustainability
- An Introduction to Systems Thinking using Plastic Dinosaurs
- An Introductory Examination of Worldviews and Why They Matter For Environmental and Sustainability Studies
- Building Resilience: Modeling Resilience Concepts Using Legos
- Eco-Crimes and Eco-Redemptions: Discussing the Challenges and Opportunities of Personal Sustainability
- Engaging with Complexity: Exploring the Terrain of Leadership for Sustainability
- Discovering Authentic Hope: Helping Students Reflect on Learning and Living with Purpose
- Teaching How Scientific Consensus is Developed through Simplified Meta-analysis of Peer-reviewed Literature
- Understanding Ecosystems and Their Services through Apollo 13 and Bottle Models
- Using Soil Organisms to Explore Ecosystem Functioning, Services, and Sustainability
- Fire, Pollution and Grazing, Oh My! A Game in which Native and Invasive Plants Compete under Multiple Disturbance Regimes
- Exploring Trophic Cascades in Lake Food Webs with a Spreadsheet Model
- Ants, Elephants, and Experimental Design: Understanding Science and Examining Connections between Species Interactions and Ecosystem Processes
- Teaching Lyme Disease Ecology Through a Primary-Literature Jigsaw Activity
- A Fisheries Activity to Examine the Tragedy of the Common Goldfish Cracker
- Making Biodiversity Stewardship Tangible using a Place-based Approach
- Conservation Triage: Debating Which Species to Save and Why
- Everything Cannot Be Equal: Ranking Priorities and Revealing Worldviews to Guide Watershed Management
- Location, Location, Location! Analyzing Residential Development in Environmentally-Fragile Areas
- Tasting Sustainability: Using Multi-sensory Activities to Retune Food Preferences
- Relationships between Consumption and Sustainability: Assessing the Effect of Life Cycle Costs on Market Price
- Business Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line: Considering the Interrelationships of People, Profit, and Planet
- A Triple-Bottom-Line Analysis of Energy Efficient Lighting
- Go with the Flow: Analyzing Energy Use and Efficiency in the U.S
- Exploring Complexities of Energy Options through a Jigsaw Activity
- Introducing the Conflicting Meanings of “Justice” Using a Candy-distribution Exercise
- Beyond Band-Aids: Using Systems Thinking to Assess Environmental Justice
- Engaging the Empathic Imagination to Explore Environmental Justice
- Helping Students Envision Justice in the Sustainable City
- Social-ecological Systems Mapping to Enhance Students’ Understanding of Community-Scale Conflicts Related to Industrial Pollution
- The Skies, the Limits: Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Tighter U.S. Soot Emission Standards
- Don’t Blame the Trees: Using Data to Examine how Trees Contribute to Air Pollution
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Green Roofs: A Case Study for Literature Research and Critical Thinking
- The Story of Source Reliability: Practicing Research and Evaluation Skills Using “The Story of Stuff” Video
- Critically Evaluating Non-scholarly Sources through Team-Based Learning
- Using the Insights, Questions and Challenges (IQC) Framework to Improve Students’ Environmental Communication Skills
- Building Students’ Communication Skills and Understanding of Environmental and Sustainability Issues Interactively and Cumulatively with Pecha Kucha Presentations
- Engaging in Climate Change Conversations: A Role-Playing Exercise to Cultivate Effective Communication
- Writing Letters to the Editor to Promote Environmental Citizenship and Improve Student Writing
- Captioning Political Cartoons from Different Perspectives as a Tool for Student Reflection
- Analyzing Nature as a Persuasive Tool in Advertisements
- Making and Assessing Art in the Sustainability Classroom.