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InTeGrate - Building Earth Literacy & Sustainability Workforce

A five-year community effort to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues. InTeGrate supports interdisciplinary learning about resource and environmental issues across the undergraduate curriculum to create a sustainable and just civilization.

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InTeGrate - Building Earth Literacy & Sustainability Workforce

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  1. A five-year community effort to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues InTeGrate supports integrated interdisciplinary learning about resource and environmental issues across the undergraduate curriculum to create a sustainable and just civilization. An NSF STEP Center DUE-1125331

  2. Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future • Geoscience must come together with other disciplines as our nation and the world struggle with significant environmental and resource challenges. • Meeting these challenges will require a savvy public, a new kind of workforce, and a broader understanding of geoscience by all who engage these issues USGS Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

  3. A Systems Model for Impact Workshops Materials Development Implementation Programs

  4. InTeGrate Workshops:Building Capacity for Interdisciplinary Teaching

  5. InTeGrate Website • 900 pages, 265 essays, 122 activities, 92 course descriptions, 189 program descriptions • For Faculty and Instructors: Undergraduate Teaching for a Sustainable Future • For Program Directors and Administrators: • Laying the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Sustainable Workforce

  6. A Systems Model for Impact Workshops Materials Development Implementation Programs

  7. Materials Development Teams • Developed and tested by teams with members from at least 3 institutions • 2 year commitment to development, testing, revision and publication • Supported by assessment team member to meet design rubric, develop embedded assessments for use in testing • $15,000 stipend for each team member

  8. Climate of Change: Interactions Between Water, Air and Ice • Human Dependence on Earth's Mineral Resources • Natural Hazards and Risks: Hurricanes • Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources • Sustainable Agriculture and Earth Systems • Living on the Edge: Resilient Societies on Active Plate Margins • Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception • Water Sustainability in Cities

  9. Implementation Programs Develop a new vision for developing Earth savvy in higher education • Within and beyond geoscience departments • Within and beyond single institutions • 20 by application in years 3-5 • Up to $50K to support design and development Workshop Program

  10. A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate

  11. Expanding Program Models

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