Contribute a Case or Model Project

A web page will be created from your submission below and will become part of a collection of activities and assignments for Teaching Geoethics Across the Curriculum. The information you provide here will be used to create a web page describing your activity. You are encouraged to upload files to accompany your example.

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Accessibility: Activities are most impactful if they are accessible to all learners. We encourage you to submit materials that follow current best practices around accessibility. While our system will attempt to present your activity as an accessible web page, only you can ensure the accessibility of any files you've uploaded. Our accessibility guidelines (opens in new window/tab) are a good place to learn more about making the content you create accessible.

There are two ways to use this form:

Fill out part of the form and edit the resulting web page directly. After you submit this form you will immediately be able to view a page containing your materials and make changes to that page. You will be able to add information, upload supporting materials, change the page title, or make any other changes you would like. In this case, all you have to enter on this form is your name, email address, and course title. (If you don't enter your email address on this form, you won't be able to edit the page. Note: your email address will NOT be posted on the activity webpage). To edit your page in future web sessions, just call up the URL for your page-in-progress; you will be asked for your SERC account (your email address attached to this page, and a password that you will make up), and then you can go ahead and edit your page directly by typing or pasting new text.
Fill out the entire form and wait for us to make it into a web page. If you choose not to make your submission into a page yourself, SERC staff will take care of making your submission into a page. This process usually takes a few days, although just before a workshop it may take longer. Note: If you choose this route, you must fill out the entire form in a single session and complete all fields. If you intend to do this, please read through the form and make sure that you have all of the information you will need before you begin. Prepare your input for the various headers in a standard word processing program, and then cut and paste the information into the form. Please pay careful attention to spelling and grammar; we will not proofread your submission before we make it into a page.

Thank you in advance for sharing your activity!

About YouYour Name:

Your Institution/Organization:

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Your Activity or AssignmentActivity/Assignment Title:

Summary

Please provide a short (3-4 sentence) summary of the case study in terms of its environs and aims.

Goals

Please briefly describe the explicit goals that are addressed in this activity, including the following three areas

1. The content/concepts goals for this activity (e.g., application of fundamental geologic knowledge, concepts, information; a firm understanding of Earth processes and history is probably an important foundation for deeper explorations of ethical behavior in the geosciences).

2. The higher order thinking skills goals for this activity (e.g., synthetic and analytical reasoning).

3. Any other skills goals for this activity (e.g., those involving writing, operating analytical equipment, searching the WWW, oral presentation, working in groups, critical review of the literature).

Ethical Principles Addressed in this Exercise

Please provide a short description of the key ethical principle(s) that are addressed in this exercise. Does this activity address one of the four themes addressed at the Teaching GeoEthics workshop: Personal Ethics, Professional Ethics, GeoEthics and Society, GeoEthics and Earth (or Enviromental Ethics)?

Check all that apply:
GeoEthics and self
GeoEthics and the geoscience profession
Geoethics and society
GeoEthics and Earth

Describe how key ethical principles are addressed:

Description

Please provide a short description of your activity or assignment and its outcomes. Be sure to include essential key words or index terms to help users find resources using our search/browse functions. What will the students actually do in this exercise (e.g. role-playing, Socratic discussion, debate, etc.)?

Case Study Scenario

Please provide the details of this case study (e.g. What was the appropriate role of the geophysicists involved with the L'Aquilla Earthquake event; what are the arguments for or against geoengineering as a strategy for carbon sequestration, etc.). Provide enough context so that students can explore the situation and develop arguments that pertain to this situation. If you have an extended scenario to present, we can either create an accompanying webpage or upload the scenario as a Word or PDF document.

Teaching Notes and Tips

Please provide any helpful hints or tips you have for this activity, such as common sticking points for students and ideas for overcoming them. You may have encountered situations where students have encountered obstacles to learning (pre- or mis-conceptions; personal or social resistance to concepts and ideas that may be controversial, etc.). Provide any advice about how you have dealt with these issues so that other instructors can benefit from your experience.

Assessment and Evaluation

How do you determine that the activity is successful and that its goals are met? Consider: scoring rubrics, reflective writing, peer assessments, etc.

References

A. Please provide references to peer-reviewed journal articles, articles from the popular press, other reports, URLs to credentialed websites etc. that can help students and faculty explore this topic in more depth.

B. It would also be useful if you could provide a list of papers and websites on science and pedagogy related to the activity or its planning.

Files and Images

Materials and Handouts

Please upload and describe the materials and handouts that were used either during the activity or in preparation for it. You may provide links to these resources if they already exist on the web. You may also upload copies of these documents for inclusion in the page. Example materials could include: the student assignment handout, field guides, maps, and locality descriptions. Also be sure to mention any special equipment that is necessary for the activity. These are the documents that faculty should be able to print out, perhaps modify for specific courses, and distribute to students to do as a class assignment.

Upload Supporting Materials

All uploaded files are public unless you are in a private workspace

Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

e.g. 'Student Handout for Sauerkraut Assignment'

Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

Description: A very brief description of the file.

Show Optional Fields

File Type:

The system will attempt to determine the correct file type based on the name of the file you've selected. Choosing the correct file type here will override that.

File Name:

e.g. 'student_handout'
This will be the name of the downloaded file. By default the system will generate this based on the title you specified and the type of file. If you specify a name here it will over-ride the automatically generated name. This is generally only useful when uploading file of a type not recognized by the system (not in the list of file types above). In that situation choose File Type: Unknown Binary and include the appropriate suffix in the file name here. e.g. myfile.m3z Avoid spaces or special characters in the file names.

Authorship/Reuse

Either:
I am the author (copyright holder) of the contents of this file and people are allowed to reuse it for non-commercial purposes as long as they give me attribution as described by this creative commons license.
Or

Choose a different authorship/reuse options

Who is the original creator/copyright holder of the information in this file?

Provenance/Acknowledgements

A short description of where the material came from. Include names and institutions of authors and contributors as well as acknowledgment of any work from which this was derived.

Reuse License

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If you are the creator we strongly encourage you to select the CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike option.

If none of the above licenses apply describe the conditions under which this material appears on this site as well as any information about reuse beyond this site.

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Without permission you should not upload the file. There are several options in this case:

You can contact the original author to get permission.
You can provide a link to (or a description of how to get) the original material rather than uploading it here.
You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

Upload Supporting Materials

All uploaded files are public unless you are in a private workspace

Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

e.g. 'Student Handout for Sauerkraut Assignment'

Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

Description: A very brief description of the file.

Show Optional Fields

File Type:

The system will attempt to determine the correct file type based on the name of the file you've selected. Choosing the correct file type here will override that.

File Name:

Authorship/Reuse

Choose a different authorship/reuse options

Who is the original creator/copyright holder of the information in this file?

Provenance/Acknowledgements

A short description of where the material came from. Include names and institutions of authors and contributors as well as acknowledgment of any work from which this was derived.

Reuse License

If none of the above licenses apply describe the conditions under which this material appears on this site as well as any information about reuse beyond this site.

More Information about reuse and choosing a license

Without permission you should not upload the file. There are several options in this case:

You can contact the original author to get permission.
You can provide a link to (or a description of how to get) the original material rather than uploading it here.
You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

Upload Supporting Materials

All uploaded files are public unless you are in a private workspace

Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

e.g. 'Student Handout for Sauerkraut Assignment'

Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

Description: A very brief description of the file.

Show Optional Fields

File Type:

The system will attempt to determine the correct file type based on the name of the file you've selected. Choosing the correct file type here will override that.

File Name:

Authorship/Reuse

Choose a different authorship/reuse options

Who is the original creator/copyright holder of the information in this file?

Provenance/Acknowledgements

A short description of where the material came from. Include names and institutions of authors and contributors as well as acknowledgment of any work from which this was derived.

Reuse License

If none of the above licenses apply describe the conditions under which this material appears on this site as well as any information about reuse beyond this site.

More Information about reuse and choosing a license

Without permission you should not upload the file. There are several options in this case:

You can contact the original author to get permission.
You can provide a link to (or a description of how to get) the original material rather than uploading it here.
You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

Images

Please upload any images you would like to include of students engaged in the activity, the field site, or other images related to this case study. We will help you post these images on your activity webpage, in part for aesthetics of the page, but mostly to be used to represent the ethical issue you are addressing.

Upload Image of the activity/field site.

All uploaded files are public unless you are in a private workspace

Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

e.g. 'Student Handout for Sauerkraut Assignment'

Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

Description: A very brief description of the file.

Show Optional Fields

File Type:

The system will attempt to determine the correct file type based on the name of the file you've selected. Choosing the correct file type here will override that.

File Name:

Authorship/Reuse

Choose a different authorship/reuse options

Who is the original creator/copyright holder of the information in this file?

Provenance/Acknowledgements

A short description of where the material came from. Include names and institutions of authors and contributors as well as acknowledgment of any work from which this was derived.

Reuse License

If none of the above licenses apply describe the conditions under which this material appears on this site as well as any information about reuse beyond this site.

More Information about reuse and choosing a license

Without permission you should not upload the file. There are several options in this case:

You can contact the original author to get permission.
You can provide a link to (or a description of how to get) the original material rather than uploading it here.
You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

Upload Image of the activity/field site.

All uploaded files are public unless you are in a private workspace

Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

e.g. 'Student Handout for Sauerkraut Assignment'

Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

Description: A very brief description of the file.

Show Optional Fields

File Type:

The system will attempt to determine the correct file type based on the name of the file you've selected. Choosing the correct file type here will override that.

File Name:

Authorship/Reuse

Choose a different authorship/reuse options

Who is the original creator/copyright holder of the information in this file?

Provenance/Acknowledgements

A short description of where the material came from. Include names and institutions of authors and contributors as well as acknowledgment of any work from which this was derived.

Reuse License

If none of the above licenses apply describe the conditions under which this material appears on this site as well as any information about reuse beyond this site.

More Information about reuse and choosing a license

Without permission you should not upload the file. There are several options in this case:

You can contact the original author to get permission.
You can provide a link to (or a description of how to get) the original material rather than uploading it here.
You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.