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Strong Pedagogy

Resources for enhancing student engagement, higher-order thinking, quantitative reasoning and problem-solving skills in every course, through effective curriculum design, active pedagogy, and professional development opportunities. There is a separate page if you are looking specifically for Teaching Activities ».

Active Learning

Research has shown that active learning techniques can help students learn more effectively; there are many strategies available for incorporating active learning into any classroom, including:

Interactive Lectures, Jigsaws, Classroom Experiments, and many others from Pedagogy in Action

Student Engagement

Students must be engaged to learn. Find strategies to engage students in course content, learn more about motivation, and connect learning to the world around them.

Authentic Research opportunities
Making connections to the real world
Demonstrate the relevance of STEM to students' lives
Understand motivation and the affective domain

Program and Course Design

Intentional design of programs and courses is the best strategy for ensuring that the desired learning happens. Program design is essential to successful retention and degree completion by all students. Learn more about:

Increase the diversity of STEM graduates
Strategies for program design and assessment
Effective course design and student learning assessment
Curriculum by Design essay

Higher-Order Thinking

Teaching students higher order skills such as critical and systems thinking can be incorporated into classroom activities to strengthen students' skills in these areas. See resources focused on:

Tackle interdisciplinary, wicked problems like these from BASICS
Teach with models
Integrate cutting edge research into education
Develop students' ability to reflect on and monitor their learning through metacognition
Utilize quantitative approaches to increase students' skills
Develop strong spatial thinking and visualization skills

Projects with a Pedagogical Focus

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Research on Learning
This site aggregates resources collected and developed for and in response to a 2002 workshop: Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences. The website seeks to further the conversations that were begun at the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Subject: Geoscience

BASICS
The Business And Science: Integrated Curriculum for Sustainability (BASICS) team developed and pilot-tested transdisciplinary curricular modules and discipline-specific activities for undergraduate students that ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science, Business, Economics

Climate Education in an Age of Media
The CAM project developed approaches to bring student media production into climate change education in ways that are engaging, empowering, and can be readily adopted in a wide range of instructional environments. ...

Grade Level: Primary (K-2), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change

SISL
Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) was an collaboration between academic association and professional societies that strived to improve teaching and preparation of undergraduates to address real-world ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability

CUREnet
CUREnet supports networking among faculty developing, teaching, and assessing Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs), to share CURE projects and resources, and to develop new tools and strategies ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)