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 InTeGrate community is built around the shared goal of supporting interdisciplinary learning about Earth across the undergraduate curriculum, focusing on the grand challenges facing society and the important role that the geosciences play in addressing these grand challenges. The chapters in this book explicitly illustrate the intimate relationship between geoscience and sustainability that is often opaque to students. The authors of these chapters are faculty members, administrators, program directors, and researchers from institutions across the country who have collectively envisioned, implemented, and evaluated effective change in their classrooms, programs, institutions, andbeyond. This book provides guidance to anyone interested in implementing change-on scales ranging from a single course to an entire program-by infusing sustainability across the curriculum, broadening access to Earth and environmental sciences, and assessing the impacts of those changes.

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Preface

Setting the Stage: Introduction and Overview

Part 1. Approach

· InTeGrate Overview: Values statement and link to pedagogy Themes and Strategies for Teaching about Geoscience and Societal Issues · Overview of Materials and Professional Development Process

· Development and use of Curriculum Rubric process

· Review process and materials quality

· Implementation Program support process

· Program Assessment and Evaluation, Student Learning

Part 2. Interdisciplinary Course and Modules (Abbreviated Titles)

• Green Energy
• Ecosystems Sustainability
• Water and Agriculture
• Natural Hazards
• Critical Zone
• Lead in the Environment< · Identify Societal Issue and Problem

· Module Summary

· Connections to Five Strategies

· Pedagogy Used and Examples

· Assessment Information on Module Impact GLE, Systems and Interdisciplinary, Summative Assessment[WCGB1] Part 3. Scaling Up Implementation Models

• Implementation Program Description and Scope
• Geology and Engineering at UTEP
• Stanford
• HBCU