Student-Generated Earth Science Podcasts for a Community Partner part of Service Learning:Activities
A semester-long audio recording project, defined by the needs of a community organization, engages students in not only learning new content but sharing their new knowledge beyond classroom walls (and beyond the ...

Service Learning: Connect Classroom Learning with Societal Issues part of Integrate:Teaching for Sustainability:Strategies and Teaching Themes:Connect to the World We Live In
× This page builds on ideas and outcomes from faculty discussions at the workshop, Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences, held in July 2012. Service learning engages students in genuine ...

Integration of Service Learning in Online Geoscience Courses part of Service Learning:Activities
Students in our online, introductory geoscience courses are given the opportunity to participate in an environmental service learning project, led by the Center for Earth and Environmental Science (cees.iupui.edu), ...

Monitoring Lead in an Urban Community Garden part of Service Learning:Activities
Each spring, students in a 300-level field course collect samples from urban community gardens to monitor soil lead concentrations.

Natural Hazards & Climate Change Risks part of Service Learning:Activities
× Students characterize how climate change impacts natural hazards and pose research-based solutions to the county Emergency Management Agency. Presentations require the use of local data, created figures, ...

Personal temperature monitoring to build context for climate justice and community decisions. part of Service Learning:Activities
Climate change is often presented in disconnection from human experiences central to equitable and just decision making. In this activity students use PocketLab temperature probes to collect and analyze data on ...

Structural Geology of the Cape Liptrap region of southeastern Australia part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity is a virtual field experience set in spectacularly deformed Palaeozoic rocks southeast of Melbourne, in the Australian state of Victoria. Exercises on Day 1 of the virtual field experience are focused ...

Burn Scar Analysis for the 2018 Paradise Fires Using ArcGIS Pro part of Service Learning:Activities
This exercise introduces students to satellite imagery analysis of burn scars, using the 2018 Camp Fire of Butte County, California. Students will learn to pre-process and enhance these images in order to create a ...

Community and Political Engagement in the Geosciences part of Integrate:Teaching for Sustainability:Strategies and Teaching Themes:Connect to the World We Live In:Civic Engagement
This suite of pages was developed by Sarah Fortner, Wittenberg University with contributions from Rob Baker, Wittenberg University Community and political engagement in your earth or environmental science classes, ...

Incorporating Community-Based Research in a Course on the Economics of Poverty part of Examples
A community-based research project in an economics of poverty course connects students to the issues that nonprofit organizations are facing in serving low-income households.