Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice Resources for Earth Educators
These resources have been developed by many different projects and address various aspects of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in the geosciences.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
- Focus on Diverse Students 14 matches Increasing the diversity of students in STEM requires attracting them to the discipline, supporting them to graduation, and preparing them for career success.
- Build Just and Equitable Curricula 25 matches All students should be asked to wrestle with the large questions facing society in order to help STEM disciplines address important challenges.
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- Campus Living Laboratory 6 matches
- Earth History Approach 1 match
- Experience-Based Environmental Projects 5 matches
- Field Labs 1 match
- Gallery Walks 1 match
- Games 2 matches
- Investigative Case Based Learning 1 match
- Just in Time Teaching 1 match
- Mathematical and Statistical Models 1 match
- Role Playing 8 matches
- Service Learning 4 matches
- Teaching with Data 3 matches
- Using an Earth System Approach 3 matches
Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience
LocationResults 31 - 37 of 37 matches
Yellowstone Fires
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
This module enables students to take a problem-based learning approach to wildfires, in particular whether a "let-it-burn" policy makes sense in Yellowstone National Park. -
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Gallery Walk Questions about Human Dimensions
created by Mark Francek, Central Michigan University The following are potential questions that could be used in a gallery walk activity about the human dimensions of geologic issues. The questions are organized ...
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Global Change and Human Health
The course begins by focusing on the dynamics of Earth's physical systems and the impacts of increasing human population on those systems, and concludes by examining several critical health issues in light of ...
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Field Biology, University of Maine-Farmington
Course taught by Nancy Prentiss, University of Maine-Farmington, prentiss@maine.edu. Example compiled by Suzanne Savanick, Science Education Resource Center, ssavanic@carleton.edu.
This field biology class uses a service-learning project instead of a course term paper. The students worked with 4th and 5th graders at a local school to teach them skills in wildflower and fern identification, and then to help them implement a nature trail, which will be accessible to the greater community.
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The Grand Canyon
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
This interdisciplinary lesson plan deals with the consequences of damming in the Grand Canyon area. The students, role-playing as scientists, write a proposal to try experimental flooding. -
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Causes and Implications of Global Change
This course embodies an integrated introduction to the broad scientific and social aspects of the global change "problem." Two large Global Change issues are discussed in terms of the science, the impacts ...
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Global Change - Sustainability Studies
In this third section of a three quarter sequence, students examine solutions to providing a sustainable, healthy relationship between humans and the natural world. Students will integrate previously learned ...
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