The elements and society: how we need them, where do they come from, and the societal and environmental impacts part of Integrate:Program Design:InTeGrate Program Models:University of Northern Colorado:Activities
Students investigate where elements are extracted from, the need for elements in society, the scarcity and cost of many elements, and the societal and environmental impacts of extracting elements from the lithosphere.

The Geo-Politics of Dr. Wangari Maathai's Greenbelt Movement part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Pan-African Approaches to Teaching Geoscience:Activities
Students view the documentary "Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai." They also are required to read Dr. Maathai's "The Greenbelt Movement: Sharing the Approach and Experience." The ...

Introduction to the methods of geoscience part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
In this activity, students are introduced to the methods of inquiry in the Earth sciences and how they differ from what is classically taught in school science.

Collaborative Research Project: Geoscience Undergraduate Curricula part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
Collaborative research project in which undergraduate geoscience curricula at Research 1 institutions are compared. This project uses the methods of science to explore a topic that beginning students can understand. This project uses rubrics for self, peer, and instructor assessment.

My Geologic Address: Locating Oneself in Geologic Time and Process part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
Students locate their homes on local, regional, and global scale geologic maps. They build up an "address" describing their location in geological terms based on the features of the maps, from local bedrock to regional and global tectonic features.

The Cube Exercise and the Methods of Science part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
A new approach to using an exercise from the National Academy of Science publication "Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science" to support students in developing a deeper understanding of descriptive methods, experimental methods, and methodological assumptions.

The "What is Science?" Box part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
A group of 3-4 students are presented with a box that has writing on the five visible sides and asked to determine what is on the bottom of the box. In solving this problem, students are using the same techniques that scientists use to learn about nature.

An Approach to Teaching Structure-Activity Relationships (SAR) in the Undergraduate Chemistry Lab: Computational SAR of Polychlorinated Bisphenol Pollutant Chemicals part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Activities
In this lab, students calculate molecular properties of environmentally persistent polychlorinated bisphenols and identify correlations between properties and soil sorption coefficients. Students get training in ...

A Chemical Evaluation of a Community Near the Perimeter of an EPA's Toxic Filled Ditch part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Activities
The objective of this experiment is to determine if significant levels of arsenic are still present along the perimeter of a Fort Valley, Ga community surrounding the Woolfolk Chemical Works, Inc.

Learning to integrate geophysics into engineering projects using a comprehensive set of interactive, online, scenario-based resources part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Activities
This online activity is a four part interactive learning scenario involving application of geophysics in a groundwater contamination and site characterization setting. Learning objectives focus on decision making about designing, interpreting and contributing the geophysical components for a complex geologic / geotechnical project.