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    Meal Satisfaction and Sustainability for Psychology part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
    Lee, Jen (Coe College) With Contributions from Kent Simmonds (Luther College) and Betsy Hutula (ACM)

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

    Home Energy Audit/Retrofits part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
    Barbara Whitten, Colorado College
    Home energy audit/retrofits allow students to apply thermodynamic principles to planning and executing a retrofit to make an existing home more energy efficient.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Energy:Efficiency and Energy Conservation
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    Common Resource Experiment: Simulating Tragedy of the Commons in a Classroom part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
    Dmytro Zhosan, Ripon College; Aaron Swoboda, Carleton College; Steve Holland, Luther College; David Hayes, Coe College
    An in-class activity intended to introduce students to the Tragedy of the Commons, its causes and potential solutions.

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Data Analysis part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM/FaCE:Projects:Integrating Sustainability into the Undergraduate Curriculum:Activities
    Brock Spencer, Beloit College; Marty St. Clair, Coe College

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions