Scientific method and historical precipitation part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Ozeas Costa Jr., Ohio State University-Main Campus
In this activity, you will use the scientific method and secondary data to build a dataset and answer the following question: Is Ohio getting wetter or drier? In order to answer this question, you will follow these ...

Judi Roux: BIOL 1001: Biology and Society at University of Minnesota Duluth part of Integrate:Teaching for Sustainability:How the Community is Using InTeGrate Materials:Instructor Stories
Judi Roux, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Even though Biology and Society has a large student enrollment, I prefer that students are actively engaged with the course topics and with each other rather than always listening to a PowerPoint lecture. At the beginning of the semester, students were assigned to teams of four using the CATME Team-maker surveys at http://info.catme.org/ Students worked in these teams during lab activities and specific classroom activities. With my fall course, I began to implement case studies to introduce and engage students with required topics, so I appreciated that case studies were available for certain activities within the modules.