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Understanding and Analyzing an Environmental Controversy part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Steve Martin, Ripon College
Students will write a paper that analyzes a particular controversy that is related to the environment or issues of sustainability. In so doing, they will discover the role discourse plays in resolving, or failing to resolve, the different goals of competing interests.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Sustainability through Place part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
kathleen martinson, Luther College; Sonja Darlington, Beloit College

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability

Experiencing Systemic Thinking part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Craig Mosher, Luther College
This teaching activity will assist social work students to experience and understand social and natural systems through observing and writing about their observations.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability

Spinning wheels of the carbon cycle: Carbon from gasoline to plant material part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Yaffa Grossman, Beloit College; george wittler, Ripon College
Students will determine the quantity of carbon dioxide released by driving a vehicle and the the amount of photosynthetic activity required during that time period to offset this carbon dioxide production.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science, Sustainability, Biology:Plant Biology

Considering Animals Senior Seminar part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Curricular Projects
Kimberly Smith, Carleton College

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science

Exploring in the Footsteps of Columbus: Letters Back Home part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Nancy Gates-Madsen, Luther College; Anne-Marine Feat, Luther College
Students will write a letter back home describing a "pristine" wilderness scene of a Caribbean beach. They will compare their descriptions to Columbus's diary chronicling his first impressions of Hispaniola, paying attention to: 1. what is seen (and not seen) 2. the filter/frame of reference used to describe the landscape 3. the rhetoric of the letters.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Languages:Spanish, Environmental Science:Sustainability

Communicating Campus Resource Flows part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Suzanne Savanick Hansen, Macalester College
Students research one of the energy or resource flows across the campus and design an educational project the describes the magnitude and importance of this energy or resource flow to the campus community for display during Earth Week.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Environmental Science

Gründliche Gründstücke part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Amy Gates-Young, Central College

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Languages:German, Environmental Science:Sustainability

Sustainability and Cultural Stories part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Jon Jensen, Luther College

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: English, Environmental Science:Sustainability

Global Economic Inequalities: Microcredit Lending part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
Jim Zaffiro, Central College
Making actual microcredit loans to individual potential borrowers, in the context of an introductory international politics course.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Economics:Finance