Community Collection of Sustainability Teaching Materials
Activities, Modules and Courses
This collection draws from community contributions across multiple projects that align broadly with InTeGrate's focus of interdisciplinary teaching about a sustainable future. You may also be interested in the smaller collection of teaching materials developed directly by InTeGrate.
Sustainability Topics
- Biodiversity 9 matches
- Civil Society & Governance 30 matches
- Climate Change 163 matches
- Cultures, Ethics, & Values 74 matches
- Cycles & Systems 102 matches
- Design & Planning 48 matches
- Ecosystems 122 matches
- Energy 86 matches
- Food Systems & Agriculture 89 matches
- Future Studies & Visioning 5 matches
- Human Health & Well-being 65 matches
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- Lifestyles & Consumption 57 matches
- Natural Resources 94 matches
- Natural Hazards 100 matches
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- Risk & Resilience 50 matches
- Sense of Place 56 matches
- Social & Environmental Justice 90 matches
- Technology 16 matches
- Water & Watersheds 167 matches
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- Assessments 1 match
- Course Information 41 matches
- Course Module 261 matches set of activities taking one or more class periods, like a unit
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- Computer Applications 7 matches
- Real-world Examples 8 matches examples of events and processes; less loaded term than 'case study'
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- Anthropology 11 matches
- Biology 69 matches
- Business 6 matches
- Chemistry 36 matches
- Computer Science 1 match
- Economics 21 matches
- Education 8 matches
- Engineering 22 matches
- English 36 matches
- Environmental Science 632 matches
- Fine Arts 3 matches
- Geography 161 matches
- Geoscience 482 matches
- Health Sciences 65 matches human health topics
- History 6 matches
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- Mathematics 41 matches
- Physics 13 matches
- Political Science 36 matches
- Psychology 7 matches
- Religion 1 match
- Social Science 1 match
- Sociology 38 matches
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Unit 6: Hydrologic Balance and Climate Change
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
In this unit, students create a STELLA model of the Owens River chain of lakes in eastern California and then experiment with different climate change scenarios to simulate the Pleistocene history of lake filling ...
Unit 7: Heat Flow in Permafrost
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
In this unit, students create a STELLA model of heat flow in the top 1 km of Earth's crust to explore the use of Arctic borehole temperature profiles as recorders of anthropogenic warming. The exercise draws ...
Unit 8: Thermohaline Circulation
David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this module, students first review some background material on density-driven deep currents in the oceans, and then create a STELLA model of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. The model ...
Unit 3: Simple Climate Models
Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College
Students will explore Earth's radiation budget using several versions of a simple climate model often referred to as a "layer model." Earth receives energy from the sun, some of which is reflected ...
Unit 5: Growth and Decay of Ice Sheets
David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Large continental ice sheets, such as the Laurentide Ice Sheet from the last glaciation, as well as Antarctica and Greenland of today, are some of the most important features of the global climate system — they ...
Unit 9: Carbon Cycle and Ocean Chemistry
David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this module, students first review some background material on the terrestrial, marine, and anthropogenic processes involved in the storage and transfer of carbon in the Earth system. The students then build a ...
Unit 2: Modeling Population
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College; David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this unit, students create three different STELLA models to explore a variety of concepts related to population growth and resource use. The first model simulates the classic lynx-snowshoe hare predator-prey ...
Summative Assessment: Creating a model
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College; Louisa Bradtmiller, Macalester College; David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
The summative assessment for this course requires students to construct, utilize, and critique a numerical model of a climate-related Earth system of their choosing. The project involves four pieces: creating a ...
Capstone Project
For those teaching the modules as an entire course, we provide a capstone summary assessment activity. This activity is designed to incorporate scaffolding of the material, to use the gained knowledge to do ...
Unit 1: Introduction to the Geologic Timeline & Mass Extinctions
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
In this unit, students will identify mass extinctions as paleontologists have done and recognize and understand the "pull of the recent," that is, the human tendency to know more about events closer to ...