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InTeGrate: Enhancing Earth Literacy & Workforce Preparation

A five-year initiative promoting Earth literacy, interdisciplinary learning on environment issues, and workforce readiness to address resource challenges. Join the community effort through workshops, webinars, & resources.

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InTeGrate: Enhancing Earth Literacy & Workforce Preparation

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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 for a Sustainable Future 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 the Earth by all who engage these issues • Our approach is three fold – • Integrate learning about Earth with an understanding of the issues we face, • Develop capacity for teaching higher order, interdisciplinary problem solving skills, • Open up new venues for learning USGS Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

  3. Why Coastal Hazards, Risk, and Environmental Justice ? • An important regional issue around which you can engage students and where you have common ground • A chance to explore how we can build across and on previous InTeGrate activities

  4. A Systems Model for Transformation of Individuals, Institutions, and the Education Community Programs/ Institutions Community/ Network Courses

  5. Website Webinars Workshops A System of Resources For You Implementation Programs Teaching Materials Research Groups Assessment Team

  6. Workshop Goals

  7. To help InTeGrate understand • how to help more diverse students learn about the Earth and the environmental and resource issues we face as a society • how or if it can be of help to you in your work to prepare a citizenry and workforce for tomorrow • how you can be of help to the larger InTeGrate community as they strive to support the success of diverse students

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

  9. Possible Assets • Teaching Materials • Strategies from others (and a way to share your wisdom) • Implementation Program Solicitation ($50K) • Follow on workshops, webinars or activities

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