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Water and Civic Responsibility: An Online Discussion Exercise
Rob Viens, Bellevue Community College
Students apply their science learning to regional issues related to water quantity and quality.
Bioregion Scale: Regional
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Design & Planning, Pollution & Waste, Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning, Water & Watersheds
Garbage Archaeology
Gem Baldwin, Edmonds Community College
Students will look at the garbage we create as a culture in a deeper and more connected way and theorizing about the culture that creates and uses it. Designed for use in an online course, it could certainly be adapted for use in grounded courses as well.
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Cultures & Religions, Pollution & Waste
Courting Environmental Justice: Science, Community Knowledge and Public Health
Lin Nelson, The Evergreen State College
While this module was developed when we followed the federal criminal case around WR Grace and asbestos exposure in a small Montana mining town, it can be adapted for a range of learning experiences regarding environmental justice, argumentation, strategizing, remediation and sustainability.
Bioregion Scale: Regional
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Social & Environmental Justice, Pollution & Waste, Human Heath & Wellbeing, Promising Pedagogies:Case Studies, Promising Pedagogies
Doing Sociology: Media Portrayals of [Over]Consumption
Kayleen U. Oka, Seattle Central Community College
This assignment aims to illuminate connections among consumption/capitalism, media/ideology and the degradation of the environment. It also serves to introduce students to the data collection method of content analysis.
Bioregion Scale: Global, National/Continental
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Pollution & Waste, Lifestyles & Consumption, Social & Environmental Justice, Human Impact & Footprint
Tracking the Carbon Footprint in Drug Design-- Medical, Environmental, Social Implications
James Y. Chen, Sound Community College
In this activity, students conduct a lab exercise over three lab sessions by taking a small sample of a pharmaceutical compound, slightly modifying its chemical structure, purifying the modified product sample and analyzing it for yield, purity and identity.
Bioregion Scale: Global
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Pollution & Waste, Social & Environmental Justice, Human Heath & Wellbeing
Transportation: Waterways to Interstate Highways
Charles Luckmann, Skagit Valley College
Students practice open-ended inquiry, guided inquiry, synthesis and expository writing as they explore personal and public modes of transportation, past and present, in the Puget Sound bioregion. This activity can be adapted to any region.
Bioregion Scale: Regional
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Cycles & Systems, Pollution & Waste, Lifestyles & Consumption, Human Impact & Footprint, Promising Pedagogies:Reflective & Contemplative Practice, Sustainability Concepts & Practices, Cultures & Religions, Water & Watersheds
Environmental Justice in Tacoma: A Non-Majors Qualitative Assessment of Pollution and Public Policy in the Local Community
Jim Gawel, University of Washington- Tacoma
This activity is designed to get non-environmental majors to qualitatively examine their own community for evidence of environmental injustice. Using a mix of evidence from online sources (U.S. Census, EnviroMapper, Toxic Release Inventory, Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, etc.) and field observations, student groups describe the population and pollution sources found within an assigned elementary school district in Tacoma.
Bioregion Scale: Local Community/Watershed
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Social & Environmental Justice, Human Impact & Footprint, Lifestyles & Consumption, Pollution & Waste, Ecosystem Health
Mapping Stormwater Runoff Infrastructure for the City of Bothell
Robert Turner, University of Washington Bothell
Term-long course activity for student groups to map the flow of stormwater runoff on newly developed or altered properties in and for the City of Bothell.
Bioregion Scale: Local Community/Watershed
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Water & Watersheds, Cycles & Systems, Design & Planning, Pollution & Waste, Promising Pedagogies:Civic Engagement & Service Learning
Mining Decisions: Developing New Perspectives on Mineral Extraction
Katie Chenu, Seattle Community College-Central Campus
Students examine different stakeholder-perspectives with respect to a local mining project. Debate and discussion will highlight environmental, economic, and social justice issues.
Bioregion Scale: National/Continental
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Pollution & Waste, Social & Environmental Justice
Sustainability, Nuclear Waste, and the Hanford Site
John VanLeer, Cascadia Community College
An introduction to the Hanford Site in Washington, including its history, geology, and hydrology, and examines the sustainability issues associated with it.
Bioregion Scale: Regional
Bioregion Topical Vocabulary: Energy, Social & Environmental Justice, Pollution & Waste