Summer Institute 2014 Sustainability: Living on Planet Earth

1. Summer Institute 2014Sustainability: Living on Planet Earth Opening Session Integrated Middle School Science Partnership Monday July 7, 2014

2. Funding for the Institute • We would like to recognize the funders that are supporting this professional development opportunity: • National Science Foundation • California Science Project • Heller Foundation

3. The Summer Institute Faculty • Eugene Cordero • Caron Inouye • Danika LeDuc • Mike Massey • Ellen Metzger • Jeff Seitz • Grinnell Smith

4. IMSS Coaches, Researchers and Staff IMSS Educators • Dawn O’Connor • Sara Dozier • Ai Vu • Leena Bakshi • Marie Bacher • Sandi Yellenberg Administrative Staff • Sylvia Chappell • Kamini De’sai-Lasu • Sarah Williams Researchers & Evualation • Christine Lee • Kathryn Hayes • Susan Tucker

5. Who are our teachers? • New to an IMSS Summer Institute? • 2nd summer Institute? • 3rd Summer Institute? • Science Teachers that have attended all 4 summer institutes? ( 2011-2014)

6. Outcomes for the Week • Develop a community of practice with other science educators • Explore how issues around Sustainability are investigated by scientists • Understand the importance of teaching sustainability • Deepen science content knowledge • Apply learning's to the science classroom. • Expand our understanding of NGSS, with a focus on Science and Engineering Practices in the classroom.

8. Additional Opportunities this week • Tuesday at Lunch: • Come learn about becoming a master teacher and mentor the next generation of science teachers • Wednesday at Lunch: • Come learn about the HOST lab and the opportunity to take a class of students to CSUEB to do hands on labs

9. NGSS Updates • What: NGSS Awareness PD for District Teams • Who: Administrators and teacher leaders (K-12 representatives) • When: October 20th -21st • Where: Oakland

10. IMSS Teacher Leadership Teacher Leadership Academy • When: August 11th and 12th • Where: Alameda County Office of Education • Purpose: professional development aimed to support you in your role as a teacher leader • Next Steps: • Make sure you are registered • Talk with your district coach about your role(s)

11. IMSS Morning registration and related questions • Make sure that you have read and signed the Informed Consent form at the research check-in station • Research questions: See Kathryn Hayes • IMSS district teachers need to sign the stipend letter in order to receive their stipend • Stipend questions: see Sarah Williams • Program questions: Come talk to me

12. Where can the week’s resources be found? • IMSS Partnership Website • Power Points • Handouts • Additional Resources

13. How to contact faculty…. California State University East Bay Jeffery Seitz Professor,Departmentof Earth & Environmental Sciences E-mail: jeff.seitz@csueastbay.edu Danika LeDuc Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry E-mail: danika.leduc@csueastbay.edu Caron Inouye Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences E-mail: caron.inouye@csueastbay.edu Mike Massey Assistant Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences E-mail: mike.massey@csueastbay.edu San Jose State University Ellen MetzgerProfessor, Department of Geology & Science EducationEmail: metzger@geosun.sjsu.edu Eugene CorderoProfessor, Department of Meteorology and Climate Science Email: eugene.cordero@sjsu.edu  Grinnell Smith Assistant Professor, Department of Elementary Education Email: grinell.smith@sjsu.edu

14. Science in the Real worldIntroduction to Sustainability and the Commons Ellen Metzger and Grinell Smith ellen.metzger@sjsu.edu grinell@gmail.com July 7, 2014

15. Acknowledgements • Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation • Supporting the SJSU team’s participation in this Institute. • Saturday workshops at SJSU, 2014-2015 academic year • Development of flexible, online modules for university credit ($50/unit) • Introduction to Climate Change in Fall 2014 • Creative Change Educational Solutions – our partner and a national leader in Education for Sustainability

16. Tragedy of the Commons • Activity: Fishing Game • Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZFkUeleHPY&feature=fvwrel

17. Why Sustainability? • Next Generation Science and Common Core standards: • Prepare students for life and work • Prepare students for the world they will inherit

18. It’s All About InterconnectednessWhen we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. " - Making connections: • Life, Earth and Physical Sciences • Science and Engineering Practices in the Real World Sustainability provides a timely and relevant real-world context for coherent, interdisciplinary learning, critical and systems thinking, problem-solving, designing solutions John Muir

19. World Footprint: Do we fit on the planet?What future do we want? http://www.footprintnetwork.org

20. Sustainability • A “fuzzy” and overused term with different meanings to different people? • What does the word “sustainability” mean to you?

21. Exercise Think-Pair-Share • What is your understanding of the term “sustainability?” Write down your definition and then compare notes with your neighbor

22. The World Commission on Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission) in its report Our Common Future (1987): “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” A common definition

23. Another Definition (EPA) Sustainability is based on a simple principle: Everything that we need for our survival and well-being depends, either directly or indirectly, on our natural environment. Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions under which humans and nature can exist in productive harmony, that permit fulfilling the social, economic and other requirements of present and future generations.

24. Note: the following slides are from a presentation by Dr. Joy de Leo www.yooyahcloud.com/APNIEVE/PMCTHb/EfS_schools1.ppt

25. A fundamental shift - It’s all interconnected! Until recently, human activities and their effects were neatly compartmentalised within nations, within sectors (energy, agriculture, trade) and within broad areas of concern: environmental, economic, political, social, cultural. These compartments have begun to dissolve. This applies particularly to the various global crises … These are no longer separate: an environmental crisis, development crisis, economic crisis, energy crisis, climate change, conflict. They are all one. Our Common Future, World Commission on Environment and Development 1987 Source: Dr. Joy de Leo

26. Representing sustainability ..... Sustainabilityhas three components: Environment, Society (Equity) and Economy within the underpinning Cultural context. As these 3 align, human well-being increases How else can we represent sustainability ? The expansion of output &wealth is only a means. The end of development must be human well-being. (UNDP, 1990) Source: Dr. Joy de Leo

27. Sustainability: More than the environment Three “dimensions” of sustainability: the “3Es” • Environment • Economy • Society (Equity) Includes intra- and intergenerational equity

28. SOCIAL Well-being Flourishing ENVIRONMENT Strong ECONOMY Source: Dr. Joy de Leo

29. Intersecting Circles This model shows three equal and intersecting interests. Where the three intersect, we find sustainability solutions. This model suffers from a lack of integration of the concept which leads to a tendency to “trade off” or balance one element against another in decision making. Source: Dr. Joy de Leo

30. Nested Circles – Environment as constraint to development ENVIRONMENT Sustainability as a set of interconnected spheres, where environment is constraining factor. Some argue that economics should not be at the centre, while others argue that the environment should not be the defining element. The environment as the largest element is intended to illustrate “the environment” as the limiting factor. SOCIETY ECONOMY

31. Sustainability as a Process • We know what unsustainable practices look like, but we’re learning about a sustainable futureas we go along • Education for sustainability • Interdisciplinary • Skills: Systems thinking Critical thinking Problem solving

32. Activities • A pair of activities from Creative Change Education Solutions • “Defining What Matters” • “What Supports Our Well-Being?”

33. What do we need for a fulfilling life? education love

34. What supports our well-being? The “Commons”: “Everything we inherit or create together and must pass on, undiminished, to future generations.” Natural Commons: sunlight, air, water Cultural/Social Commons: language, town squares, education Soils + food markets Sewers+ bacteria Sunsets + poetry Well-being: Supported through the interdependence of natural and cultural Commons.

35. Content Rooms • Earth Science N346 • Life Science N347 • Physical Science S437

36. Thank You • For more information, please visit http://www.sciencepartnership.org/ • Contact ___ with any questions or concerns. • Materials will be available _______