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Dramatic shoreline erosion and large overwash deposits along Dauphin Island following Hurricane Katrina. The image illustrates how barrier islands "rollover" and migrate landward during a severe storm surge. Barrier islands also migrate landward due to sea level rise, thus human settlements on barrier islands are vulnerable to both long term climate-driven impacts and short term storm damage. ![[creative commons]](/images/creativecommons_16.png)
InTeGrate is a community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce that can make use of geoscience to solve societal issues.
In order to move toward a sustainable future, today's students need to learn how to tackle complex, multidiscipline challenges that straddle both scientific and societal issues. This project seeks to integrate geoscience with other disciplines in the context of teaching about sustainability. This 5 year project is a NSF STEP Center grant and will run from 2012 through 2016. Read more about this projectThe project is pursuing two important goals.
The first goal of the project is to develop curricula that will teach geoscience in the context of societal issues across the disciplines.
The second goal is to create a population of college graduates who are poised to bring geoscience to the creation of viable solutions to current and future societal challenges .
The InTeGrate project has 3 major components.
Announcements
- First Materials Development Teams
First materials development teams announced for Introductory and Teacher Preparation modules/courses.
- Call for GLE reviewers
Call for Geoscience Literacy Exam reviewers
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- Developing teaching materials and evaluation of new teaching resources and instructional strategies,
- Implementation programs to incorporate geoscience and sustainability throughout the curriculum,
- Professional development and dissemination strategies to promote widespread adoption of these new approaches.
Educators, researchers and others can get involved in the project.
Over the course of five years, the InTeGrate project will engage hundreds of faculty from across the spectrum of academic disciplines in developing new courses and materials, creating new programs, and disseminating results via the professional development workshops.
Learn about avenues for participation
The InTeGrate team includes science faculty, educational specialists, and evaluation experts.
Collaboration among educators from a wide range of disciplines and from all types of colleges and universities is a signature element that infuses every activity of the InTeGrate project.
Read about the project team
