Joshua Villalobos

Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources part of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
This module enables students to identify the freshwater components of the hydrologic cycle and connect them to the basic need of all human beings for equal access to clean freshwater. This is accomplished by ...

Unit 2: The Hydrologic Cycle and Freshwater Resources part of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
Students will be introduced to the concept of a natural cycle. They are first asked to identify the different components of the hydrologic cycle. Students will be able to recognize the delicate balance between the ...

Unit 6: Groundwater Availability and Resources part of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
Students will utilize the desert Southwest region of the United States and the Ogallala Aquifer in a case study to evaluate issues regarding groundwater and its scarcity. Groundwater is often seen as a limitless ...

Unit 3: Streams and Water Diversion part of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
Unit 3 communicates the critical need for management of fresh water and ways in which citizens may take part in its conservation and restoration. Students explore the relationships between watersheds, drainage ...

Increasing Participation in the Geosciences at El Paso Community College part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Broadening Access to the Earth and Environmental Sciences:Essays
Community Colleges currently serve 44% of all undergraduate students and 45% of all of all first time freshmen in the US. The combined low cost and flexibility of community colleges has also meant that they accommodate a large percentage of minorities entering higher education. Hispanics now constitute 15% of the general population and 19% of college population in the US. This increase has led to more Institutions being designated HSI (Hispanic Serving Institutions) by the federal government, where at least 25 percent of the full-time-equivalent students are Latino.

Implementation of InTeGrate Modules in the El Paso Higher Education Community part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
We have tested InTeGrate (Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future) modules on climate change, earth materials and freshwater in introductory geology and environmental science courses taught ...

Connecting Science to Issues of Sustainability and Environmental Justice part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Morning Workshops:Connecting Science to Issues of Sustainability and Environmental Justice
As natural resources become more scarce, an increasing percentage of the world's underprivileged population is facing issues of inequality and abuse in the distribution, and use, of these commodities. This ...