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 30 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 68 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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Lessons on River Ecosystems
Dan Zalles, SRI International
These lessons immerse students in thinking about the big idea of an environmental system as a network of interrelationships and evaluating the goodness of policy options for the environment in the future.
Information Type: Activity:Classroom Activity, Activity
A "Jigsaw" Activity for Teaching about Uranium Mining on the Navajo Nation
Erin Klauk, University of Wyoming
This activity takes an Earth system approach to teach about uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, and can be modified to teach a variety of case studies.
Information Type: Activity:Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Activity, Classroom Activity
Environmental Health Risk Inventory
Laurie Cantwell, Montana State University-Bozeman
In this activity, students perform an environmental health risk inventory of a selected locale. Students will address anthropogenic and natural health risks of an area using data collected from various online ...
Information Type: Activity:Classroom Activity, Project, Activity
Water Wars: A look at Gallatin Valley Water Controversies
Laurie Cantwell, Montana State University-Bozeman
This virtual field trip explores the science and policy of a ground water dispute in Gallatin Valley Montana. The virtual field trip uses a role-playing activity to explore the geology, hydrology and policy related ...
Information Type: Activity, Project, Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Investigating Earth
Rachel Beane, Bowdoin College
In this introduction to physical geology course, we explore rocks exposed near campus, and do our best to interpret the processes that formed them.
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Drinking Water Quality: An Interdisciplinary Research Experience of Introductory Geology and Chemistry Classes
Robert Shuster, University of Nebraska at Omaha Summary At the University of Nebraska at Omaha, we have involved students in introductory Geology and Chemistry classes in an interdisciplinary study of drinking ...
Information Type: Activity:Project, Activity
Incorporating Information Literacy into Climate Change Teaching
Lura Joseph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This module contains 10 topics related to finding and evaluating scientific information related to climate change. The skills learned are transferable to any subject area. Each topic includes exercises.
Information Type: Activity:Writing Assignment, Activity, Project, Problem Set, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
The Lifestyle Project
Karin Kirk, Freelance Science Writer and Geoscientist
This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. Throughout the project, students reduce their impacts on the environment by changing the way ...
Information Type: Activity:Project, Activity
Plume Busters
Allen Macfarlane, University of Kansas Main Campus
Students take on the role of a consultant to solve an environmental problem that could have dire consequences for a nearby community. This activity can be used to initiate discussion on a range of public policy ...
Information Type: Activity:Lab Activity, Activity
Upper Hudson Dredging Debate
Jeff Chiarenzelli, SUNY Potsdam
This exercise is intended to investigate, in detail, a current environmental problem, namely the environmental dredging of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the Upper Hudson River. After an introductory lecture ...
Information Type: Activity, Classroom Activity