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 8 matches
- Civil Society & Governance 30 matches
- Climate Change 152 matches
- Cultures, Ethics, & Values 68 matches
- Cycles & Systems 102 matches
- Design & Planning 47 matches
- Ecosystems 119 matches
- Energy 83 matches
- Food Systems & Agriculture 87 matches
- Future Studies & Visioning 5 matches
- Human Health & Well-being 59 matches
- Human Impact & Footprint 131 matches
- Lifestyles & Consumption 55 matches
- Natural Resources 91 matches
- Natural Hazards 100 matches
- Pollution & Waste 71 matches
- Risk & Resilience 50 matches
- Sense of Place 55 matches
- Social & Environmental Justice 84 matches
- Technology 16 matches
- Water & Watersheds 166 matches
Resource Type
- Activities 528 matches
- Course Information 42 matches
- Course Module 261 matches set of activities taking one or more class periods, like a unit
- Curriculum Description 1 match
- Datasets and Tools 8 matches
- Audio/Visual 3 matches
- Computer Applications 6 matches
- Real-world Examples 8 matches examples of events and processes; less loaded term than 'case study'
- Essays and Blog Posts 1 match
Subject
- Anthropology 11 matches
- Biology 66 matches
- Business 6 matches
- Chemistry 33 matches
- Computer Science 1 match
- Economics 21 matches
- Education 8 matches
- Engineering 22 matches
- English 35 matches
- Environmental Science 611 matches
- Fine Arts 3 matches
- Geography 154 matches
- Geoscience 470 matches
- Health Sciences 59 matches human health topics
- History 6 matches
- Languages 6 matches
- Mathematics 41 matches
- Physics 13 matches
- Political Science 35 matches
- Psychology 6 matches
- Religion 1 match
- Social Science 1 match
- Sociology 37 matches
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Unit 2: Global Sea-Level Response to Temperature Changes: Temperature and Altimetry Data
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
What is the contribution of seawater thermal expansion to recent sea-level rise? In this unit, students create time-series graphs of global averaged sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) data spanning 1880–2017 ...
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Unit 4: Measuring Ice Mass Changes: Vertical Bedrock GPS
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
This unit shows how GPS records of bedrock surface elevation may be used to monitor snow and ice loading/unloading on decadal and annual time scales. Students calculate secular trends in the GPS time series and ...
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Unit 5: Societal Implications of Climate Change: Stakeholder Report
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
Sea-level rise due to the melting of glaciers and ice sheets and ocean thermal expansion has significant societal and economic consequences. In this final unit, students prepare a summary of the impacts of sea ...
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Unit 1: Climate Change and Sea Level: Who Are the Stakeholders?
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
How are rising sea levels already influencing different regions? This unit offers case study examples for a coastal developing country (Bangladesh), a major coastal urban area (southern California), and an island ...
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Unit 3: Global Sea-Level Response to Ice Mass Loss: GRACE and InSAR data
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
What is the contribution of melting ice sheets compared to other sources of sea-level rise? How much is the sea level projected to increase during the twenty-first century? In this unit students will use Gravity ...
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High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS
High Precision Positioning with Static and Kinematic GPS/GNSS
Benjamin Crosby (Idaho State University)
Ian Lauer (Idaho State University)
Editor: Beth Pratt-Sitaula (UNAVCO)
Part of GETSI Field Collection: In this module, students will learn the fundamentals of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS, a more universal term than GPS) and how to apply these techniques beyond answering, ...
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Module 7: Soils and a Systems Approach to Soil Quality
Heather Karsten, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
This module introduces what is meant by soil quality or soil health, indicators of soil quality, and the multiple cropping system approaches that can enhance soil quality for agricultural production. In the first ...
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Module 8: Pests and Integrated Pest Management
Heather Karsten, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
This module introduces three types of agricultural pests (insects, weeds, and pathogens), integrated pest management, and some of the transgenic crop technologies developed to reduce crop pests.
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Module 10: Food Systems
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St. Erie-Behrend Coll; Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Module 10 continues the theme of human-environment interactions seen at a smaller scale with agroecosystems in Module 8, and develops the ideas of coupled human-natural systems (CHNS) begun at the beginning of the ...
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Module 11: Human-Environment Interactions
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St. Erie-Behrend Coll; Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Module 11 focuses on the way that human-environment interactions in food systems respond to stress. Food production systems and food systems in general face adversity and must have sources of resilience to overcome ...
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