Integrated Earth Systems: Confronting Global Change part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site is the course syllabus for a geography course taught at Ohio State University. The course is designed to provide a basic understanding of both natural and human caused climate change. ...

Science 1101: Interdisciplinary Science: Laboratory Modules part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This class page holds online modules for undergraduates in environmental science. Basic Skills and Principles starts with experimental analysis, statistics and graphing, and measurement. Energy and ...

Forces in the Atmosphere part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This undergraduate meteorology tutorial is about understanding the forces that cause the motion of air, producing winds and changes of weather. It discusses how these forces tend to balance each ...

Air Pressure, Height and Temperature part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This undergraduate meteorology tutorial uses the balancing of gravity/centrifugal forces and the vertical pressure gradient with the ideal gas law to explain how pressure, temperature, and height are ...

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site houses a compilation of curricular materials. Dozens of courses are listed, representing a broad spectrum of topics in the sciences and humanities. Most of the material was written for ...

The Atmosphere And Its Relation To The Crust And Hydrosphere part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site provides an illustrated lecture from a geochemistry course offered by Dr. Scott Wood at the University of Idaho. Topics include a review of the structure and formation of the Earth's crust, ...

The Use of a Mock Environment Summit to Support Learning about Global Climate Change part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This paper describes a course that addresses the human aspects of global change through the development and negotiation of an international environmental agreement. Students play the roles of country ...

Using Internet technology to deliver an inquiry-based Earth systems course designed for middle school teachers part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Abstract: The past decade has seen the exponential growth of the Internet as a tool to deliver on-line instruction at all educational levels. Many first generation on-line courses employed strategies ...

Learning to teach while learning to learn; reaping the benefits of investing in tomorrow's teachers part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Abstract - Significant advancements in our philosophy of learning, the definition and purpose of education and knowledge of how learning occurs have opened the door for restructuring introductory ...

Introduction to Global Change part of SERC Web Resource Collection

This site from the University of Michigan is the homepage for an interdisciplinary three semester introductory course sequence that investigates the causes and potential impacts of global change. The ...