Sustainability and the Campus part of Teach the Earth:Courses
A course description page detailing an interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar at Macalester College that uses the campus as a living laboratory to teach sustainability through hands-on projects, fieldwork, and systemic analysis of environmental, social, and economic issues. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Campus Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Campus Living Laboratory:Examples
Students conduct a greenhouse gas emission inventory for their college or university. Students analyze findings and present information to the college or university community. -

Campus Nitrogen Budget part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Campus Living Laboratory:Examples
Link the college or university operations with local ecology. In this study, students use a tool from urban ecology, the nitrogen budget, to research the inputs, outputs and subsytem transfers of nitrogen on the ...

Sarita Wetland Restoration part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Campus Living Laboratory:Examples
The Sarita Wetland restoration on the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus is used as teaching tools by numerous classes. Students, staff and faculty have collaborated on the planning and implementation of ...

Measuring the Campus Green part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
Students use basic tools to measure the size of one-quarter acre.

Glaciers in Our Own Backyard part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a 3-day leasson that involves classroom discussion and field exploration of glacial activity in a school forest.