Oceans part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach
Bridge: Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center. Bridge, the Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center, is a growing collection of on-line marine education resources. It provides educators with ...

Earth's surface part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach
Fundamentals of Physical Geography. The Fundamentals of Physical Geography website is designed to be a free online textbook for University and College students studying introductory Physical Geography. Version 1.0 ...

Earth history and time part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach
Changing Paleoclimates and Mass Extinctions. This article provides a model for climatic change and relates climatic cycles with major extinction events in the history of the Earth. It discusses the mechanisms ...

Course Design Matrix part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Designing an Earth System Course
Earth system science provides an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to learn about the world around us. The undergraduate Earth system classroom differs from the traditional, compartmentalized sciences that ...

Earth System Science in a Nutshell part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell
Created by Martin Ruzek, Universities Space Research Association, ESSE 21 Program "The organizing power of the evolutionary paradigm... is paralleled by the organizing power of an Earth system ...

Examples of Earth System Science Courses part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell
University of Michigan - Global Change - Physical Processes University of Michigan - Global Change - Human Impacts University of Michigan - Global Change - Sustainability Studies The Ohio State University - ...

Why use an Earth system science approach in the classroom? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell
Earth system science offers compelling and relevant examples of the application of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in the world around us, a course of study that students can relate to as part of ...

GEOS 2004 - Evolution of the Earth System part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell:Example Courses
Overview of Planet Earth from a systems perspective. Draws on knowledge from all geosciences to explore interconnections and co-evolution of the solid earth, atmosphere, oceans, and living things. Evolution of ...

GLY 1073 - An Introduction to Global Change part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell:Example Courses
From Syllabus: An overview of the Earth Sciences from a system's perspective. Students will learn to view the Earth as a complex system of interacting components including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, ...

Causes and Implications of Global Change part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell:Example Courses
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 ...