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.
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- Environmental Justice 13 matches Environmental burdens and benefits should be shared equitably between all communities.
- Ethics 12 matches All students deserve guidance on how to move through their environment, community, and discipline in an ethical manner.
- Social Justice and STEM 1 match STEM disciplines can have a positive impact on the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within society.
- Inclusive Field Experiences 1 match Making field learning more accessible can bring new voices and perspectives into the discipline.
- Public Policy and STEM 65 matches STEM disciplines can strengthen data-based decision making in the public sphere.
Build Just and Equitable Curricula
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- Develop Program-Wide Abilities 12 matches
- Enhance Your Teaching 5 matches
- Courses 13 matches
- Topics 38 matches
Cutting Edge
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and JusticeResults 1 - 10 of 68 matches
Teaching Climate Science by Studying Misinformation
Daniel Bedford, Weber State University
Students critically evaluate the arguments about climate change raised in a climate contrarian newspaper op-ed. This strengthens student critical thinking and content knowledge.
Information Type: Activity, Classroom Activity
River of the Dammed
Kallina Dunkle, Austin Peay State University
This activity is designed to engage students in an active debate about land use and planning, human populations, ecosystems, and sustainability by assigning every student to a "community" along a ...
Information Type: Activity, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Case Study: Coastal Stabilization Structures
Al Trujillo, Palomar College
This ocean activity is used to help students analyze different solutions to a real-world case study of the problem of using various coastal stabilization structures. It is intended to be used as a small group ...
Information Type: Activity, Classroom Activity
Personal temperature monitoring to build context for climate justice and community decisions.
Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
Climate change is often presented in disconnection from human experiences central to equitable and just decision making. In this activity students use PocketLab temperature probes to collect and analyze data on ...
Information Type: Activity:Project:Service Learning, Activity, Project
What are the causes and effects of ENSO?
Sarah Bednarz, Texas A & M University
This NASA Mission Geography module focuses on the evidence for global climate change. In the specific activity on ENSO, students role play policy makers deciding how to allocate Peru's resources to manage for ...
Information Type: Activity, Classroom Activity
To Drill or Not to Drill? A Case Study in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Cassandra Runyon, College of Charleston; Cynthia Hall, College of Charleston
To Drill or Not to Drill is a multidisciplinary problem based learning exercise, which intends to increase students' knowledge of a variety of topics through a real world environmental topic. In addition, ...
Information Type: Activity:Classroom Activity, Activity, Lab Activity
Carbon Footprint Exercise
Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University
We designed a three-step assignment for students in introductory geoscience that asks them to calculate their carbon footprint during one specific week. The goal of the assignment is to increase student awareness ...
Information Type: Activity, Project
OCEAN320 Oceans of Change
Stephen Schellenberg, San Diego State University
Upper-division General Education course exploring scientific, socioeconomic, and geopolitical perspectives on human impacts upon global ocean system, including global ocean warming and acidification, regional ...
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Hydrogeology Research Project
Tara Kulkarni, Norwich University
This activity is for students to work in teams (2012) or individually (2013) to develop a project (such as a physical or numerical model), survey based research, case study, technical briefs on a remediation ...
Information Type: Activity:Project, Activity
Powering the Future
Pam Dugdale
This paper introduces a card exercise which allows students to make decisions about how best to provide electrical power to their country. Students must make choices between renewable and non-renewable electricity ...
Information Type: Activity, Classroom Activity