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Sustainability part of Teach the Earth:Themes
Key Resources: InTeGrate: Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future Curriculum for the Bioregion Sustainability Improves Student Learning (SISL) Teaching about Energy using Quantitative Skills ...

Sustainability Daily Practice part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
The Daily Practice is an ongoing assignment that asks students to make a lifestyle change that contributes to environmental sustainability.

Design Portfolio Sustainability Survey part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
‪In this activity, the student would be asked to review or portfolio using a survey of items related to sustainability.

Seeing Sustainability part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
This assignment requires students to reflective observations of a particular place and to identify signs of sustainability and unsustainability.

Teaching about Teaching Sustainability part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
This course combines an in-class activity and a service-learning option. Students familiarize themselves with the dynamic behind a particular kind of human induced environmental challenge and then develop a lesson plan to teach the dynamic to younger students in a classroom setting.

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MAPPING A SCHOLARLY CONVERSATION ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
This is a guided practice activity that uses the "big ideas" of systems thinking and sustainability to introduce Information Literacy Threshold Concepts. The IL threshold concepts in this assignment are ...

The Sustainability of Place: Making Scholarship Public part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Students are assigned to observe and research a local place of their choosing and to develop a unique analytical argument about the social and/or ecological sustainability of this space. The final project is a pamphlet directed to a public audience accompanied by a proposal for its production and distribution.

Rethinking Sustainability Through the Humanities: Multi-Sensory Experience and Environmental Encounter Beyond the Classroom part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
This assignment pairs studies in environmental humanities with outdoor activity. Students complete a "field excursion" (gardening, hiking, environmental restoration) and reflect on sensory experiences involved in that activity to critique rationalist traditions/Cartesian legacies in their education more broadly.

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Sustainability and Changing Rates of Change part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
To understand sustainability, students must understand rates of change. This activity includes a primer on basic rates concepts and an exercise that motivates critical thinking about rates of change and sustainability with an analysis of historical petroleum production rates data from the United States and the world.

Using Debates to Engage Students in Sustainability Controversies and Conundrums part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
A primary feature of this "Water and Sustainability" course is a series of 10 debates on controversial sustainability topics. Each student in the course participates in one of the debates.

Sustainability, Nuclear Waste, and the Hanford Site part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
An introduction to the Hanford Site in Washington, including its history, geology, and hydrology, and examines the sustainability issues associated with it.