Kathryn Baldwin

Education

Eastern Washington University

Dr. Kathryn Baldwin an Assistant Professor of Science Education and Director of the Master in Teaching program at Eastern Washington University where she teaches courses in science methods, natural resources and environmental and sustainability education. Her interests are in preservice and in-service teacher education, Earth science education, environmental and sustainability education, problem-based learning and systems thinking.

Webinar Leader, Workshop Leader, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Course Modules (5), Other Contribution (1)

Course Modules (5)

Unit 1: Introduction to Soils and Society part of Soils, Systems, and Society
In this unit, students engage in a scaffolded class discussion designed to encourage students to move from a broad focus on science relevancy to locally important societal issues relevant to soils. They then relate ...

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Unit 3: Soil Investigation and Classification part of Soils, Systems, and Society
In this unit, students work in small groups to collect and record data about soils using various soil testing and classification methods at a series of stations. The methods they use are relevant to the societal ...

Unit 2: Mapping Patterns part of Soils, Systems, and Society
In this unit, students work in small groups to examine and analyze spatial data relevant to soils to identify patterns. They use their analyses to add detail to their Earth systems concept maps and describe how ...

Unit 4: Soils, Systems and Society Kit Presentation part of Soils, Systems, and Society
In this unit, students construct and present a standards-based, K–8 Soils, Systems, and Society Kit that consists of lessons and supporting materials around a locally and broadly relevant societal issue that ...

Soils, Systems, and Society part of Soils, Systems, and Society
This inquiry based module is designed for use in a preservice K-8 science methods course, but Units 1-3 could easily be modified for other types of courses. The module promotes geoscientific and systems thinking ...

Other Contribution (1)

Assessment of Module Goals part of Soils, Systems, and Society
This webpage is an instructor resource page for the "Soils, Systems, and Society" module, detailing summative and formative assessment strategies, including the "Soils, Systems, and Society Kit" and presentation, with downloadable rubrics and alignment to interdisciplinary, standards-based geoscience education for pre-service K–8 teachers.

Communities

STEM Teacher Prep 2022 Conference
June 2022 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2018
July 2018 Integrate/GETSI 2023 Survey
Teach the Earth
InTeGrate Systems Thinking Interest Group

Workshop Leader

Connecting Earth Science and Sustainability to Teach the NGSS Workshop
August 2018

Webinar Leader

Pathways to performance expectations using InTeGrate materials
November 2018

Webinar Participant

ITG Institutional Change 2016 webinar
May 2016 ITG Soils 2016 Webinar
April 2016 Presenter