Course-Specific Exercises

Course-specific exercises are activities, modules, projects, or other assignments designed by BASICS faculty to build on the content of the common exercise: The Wicked Problem of an Equitable Zero-Waste Circular Economy.


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Wick3d Designs New Product Negotiation
Bethany Cockbrn, Northern Illinois University
This is a multi-party negotiation role play in which students are given negotiating roles and then are asked to negotiate and agree on a new product for their company. The company's values include ...

Subject: Business:Management
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Campus Waste Audit
Elizabeth Stoner, Bentley University
The course specific excercise we did was to take Bentley University waste data across multiple years (and different buildings). Student evaluated waste diversion rates, compost rates, and landfill rates to assess ...

Subject: Environmental Science, Waste:Waste Solid , Environmental Science:Sustainability
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Design a Flowchart of a Circular Economy in a Consumer Packaged Good
Tim Bode, Wittenberg University
For my Busn340 marketing class, the class must divide up into groups and conduct a semester long research project to develop a new brand of product in one of the following consumer packaged goods categories: 1) ...

Subject: Business:Marketing, Management, Operations/Supply Chain Management
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Sustainability and Tax Policy
Tracy Noga, Bentley University
In this assignment students were asked to propose a tax policy change that would encourage businesses or individuals to promote a more sustainable economy. Students are encouraged to think broadly in terms of ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Business:Accounting
Resource Type: Activities:Writing Assignment
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

Making Vinyl Records Sustainably
Ross Jackson, Wittenberg University
The activity was focused on making vinyl records in a more sustainable way. The company was called "Witt World Records." The waste audit data were used as the basis of creating an internal memo and an ...

Subject: Business
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Writing Assignment
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

Patterns of Herpetofauna Biodiversity using HerpMapper
Richard Phillips, Wittenberg University
HerpMapper is a community science application that allows the public to submit records of amphibians and reptiles to contribute to our knowledge on their distribution and a lesser extent their abundance. To submit ...

Subject: Biology:Diversity, Environmental Science:Ecosystems
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)

Waste Audit
Cody Hyman, Bentley University
We conducted 2 waste audits, one voluntary and one to be turned in to share with the class. This captures different incentives involved with current ESG disclosure (voluntary) and the SEC's proposed mandatory rule.

Subject: Environmental Science:Waste
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Project
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)

Water Crisis
Megan Brown, Northern Illinois University
Following the circular economy common exercise, the "Water Crisis" lecture and activity includes information on water resources, direct water use, and virtual water. The main activity has the students determine their water footprint and then try to decrease it to the rationing level used in Cape Town, South Africa during the countdown to "Day Zero" in 2018.

Subject: Environmental Science:Policy, Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)

The Wicked Problem of Mental Health and an Equitable Zero-Waste Circular Economy
Stephanie Little, Wittenberg University
My primary approach to the course-specific module was to integrate mental health and its treatment into the common module as much as possible. The one stand-alone course activity involved the students reading ...

Subject: Psychology
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)

Sustainable Business Model Development
Sunny Jeong, Wittenberg University
This course will explore this emerging, highly interdisciplinary field of social entrepreneurship through a social venture business plan and teams can choose topics provided at the beginning of this semester ...

Subject: Business:Management, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science:Sustainability
Resource Type: Activities:Project
Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)


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