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    Justice, Power, and Activism: What the Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Teach Us About Resilience and Democracy part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
    Jason Lambacher, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
    This activity is a set of student-centered exercises that enable students to learn about the individual stories of Goldman environmental prize winners, the activism and organizing that grounds their work, and the underlying political and social contexts from which their struggles emerge. The lesson inspires critical reflection about justice, power, and democracy in green politics, and encourages ways to make personal connections to activism and environmental work.

    Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Energy, Soils and Agriculture, Sustainability, Geoscience:Oceanography, Geography, Anthropology, Health Sciences, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Sociology, Business, Economics, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Political Science, Environmental Science, History
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    Engaging Contentious Political Issues part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
    Parakh Hoon
    Faculty and students of politics inevitably engage with contentious debates about global inequality and development, conflict, and environmental sustainability. Teaching and learning outcomes in politics tend to ...

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Psychology, Sociology, Political Science, History, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Geography:Human/Cultural
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Environmental Advocacy Project part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
    Anita Harker, Whatcom Community College
    This assignment requires that students research the historical context of an environmental issue within their own communities and apply different types of organizing/advocacy tactics for instigating social change.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science, Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, History, Sociology, Geography:Human/Cultural, Health Sciences, English, Political Science, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geography, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Visualizing Social Justice in South Seattle: Data Analysis, Race, and The Duwamish River Basin part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
    Eunice Blavascunas, University of Washington
    We examine the factors of race and environmental contamination, starting from the premise (and data proving) that race is not a biological, scientifically valid category, but a social, historical construction with real world consequences for equal access to health, resources, and power.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: History, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Sustainability, Environmental Science, Sociology
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    What is the Volume of a Debris Flow? part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Physical Volcanology:Examples
    chuck connor, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg
    SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build a spreadsheet to estimate the volume of volcanic deposits using map, thickness and high-water mark data from the 2005 Panabaj debris flow (Guatemala).

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Volcanoes, Physics, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Economics, History
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    What is the Volume of the 1992 Eruption of Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua? part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Physical Volcanology:Examples
    chuck connor, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg
    SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build a spreadsheet to calculate the volume a tephra deposit using an exponential-thinning model.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Physics, History, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    Looking Back at History part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
    Jim Farrell, Saint Olaf College
    Students research an organism/commodity in the colonial period of American history, and write a first-person narrative/autobiography of its history as European settlers reshaped the environment (mental and physical) of North America.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
    Subject: History, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Environmental Science
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Biogeography photography exercise part of Geophotography:Geophoto Activities
    Teresa Cohn, Queens University of Charlotte
    Students rephotograph historical landscape images from local archives, upload the matched images in Google Earth, and use the whole class's images to analyze environmental changes over the past century.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
    Subject: History, Geoscience, Geography:Human/Cultural

    Counting Grizzly Bears: An Exercise in Historical Reasoning part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
    George Vrtis, Carleton College
    This assignment engages students in an environmental history class in the use of quantitative data, and raises questions about the nature and meaning of that data, and how it might be utilized.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: History, Environmental Science
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Legacies of Gandhian thought part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
    Brian Caton, Luther College

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