Community Collection of Sustainability Teaching Materials
Activities, Modules and Courses
This collection draws from community contributions across multiple projects that align broadly with InTeGrate's focus of interdisciplinary teaching about a sustainable future. You may also be interested in the smaller collection of teaching materials developed directly by InTeGrate.
Sustainability Topics
- Biodiversity 9 matches
- Civil Society & Governance 30 matches
- Climate Change 163 matches
- Cultures, Ethics, & Values 74 matches
- Cycles & Systems 102 matches
- Design & Planning 48 matches
- Ecosystems 122 matches
- Energy 87 matches
- Food Systems & Agriculture 89 matches
- Future Studies & Visioning 5 matches
- Human Health & Well-being 65 matches
- Human Impact & Footprint 132 matches
- Lifestyles & Consumption 57 matches
- Natural Resources 94 matches
- Natural Hazards 100 matches
- Pollution & Waste 73 matches
- Risk & Resilience 50 matches
- Sense of Place 56 matches
- Social & Environmental Justice 90 matches
- Technology 16 matches
- Water & Watersheds 168 matches
Resource Type
- Activities 546 matches
- Assessments 1 match
- Course Information 41 matches
- Course Module 261 matches set of activities taking one or more class periods, like a unit
- Curriculum Description 1 match
- Datasets and Tools 10 matches
- Audio/Visual 4 matches
- Computer Applications 7 matches
- Real-world Examples 8 matches examples of events and processes; less loaded term than 'case study'
- Essays and Blog Posts 1 match
Subject
- Anthropology 11 matches
- Biology 69 matches
- Business 6 matches
- Chemistry 36 matches
- Computer Science 1 match
- Economics 21 matches
- Education 8 matches
- Engineering 22 matches
- English 36 matches
- Environmental Science 634 matches
- Fine Arts 3 matches
- Geography 161 matches
- Geoscience 482 matches
- Health Sciences 65 matches human health topics
- History 6 matches
- Languages 6 matches
- Mathematics 41 matches
- Physics 13 matches
- Political Science 36 matches
- Psychology 7 matches
- Religion 1 match
- Social Science 1 match
- Sociology 38 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 666 matches
Unit 1: Slip-sliding away: case study landslides in Italy and Peru
Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic; Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
How have mass-wasting events affected communities, and what lessons have we learned from these natural disasters that might help us mitigate future hazards? In this unit, students answer these questions by being ...
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Future of Food
Future of Food
Gigi Richard (Colorado Mesa University)
Heather Karsten (Pennsylvania State University)
Steve Vanek (Pennsylvania State University)
Karl Zimmerer (Pennsylvania State University')
Editor: Timothy Bralower (Pennsylvania State University)
The Future of Food is an introductory-level science course that emphasizes the challenges facing food systems in the 21st century, including issues of sustainability, resilience, and adaptive capacity, and the ...
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11. Composting Toilets
Maurice Crawford, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University
Toilet use accounts for the largest use of water in single family homes. In 2016, the average US household toilet accounted for a quarter of a home's total indoor water. Compost toilets are one method that may ...
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Module 2: History of Food Systems
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St. Erie-Behrend Coll; Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
This second module in the Future of Food course provides a historical overview of the emergence and development of food systems until the present. Module 2.1, the first half of this module, describes the transition ...
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Unit 1: Exploring the Reservoirs and Pathways and Methods to Measure the Hydrologic Cycle
Jon Harvey (Fort Lewis College) and Becca Walker (Mt. San Antonio College)
How does water move throughout the Earth system? How do scientists measure the amount of water that moves through these pathways? This unit provides an alternative way for students to learn the major components of ...
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Unit 4: The Magic of Geophysical Inversion
Compiled by Lee Slater, Rutgers University Newark (lslater@newark.rutgers.edu)
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This unit introduces the student to the concept of geophysical inversion, which is the process of estimating the geophysical properties of the subsurface from the geophysical observations. The basic mechanics of ...
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Unit 4: Anatomy of a tragic slide: Oso Landslide case study
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
Landslides can have profound societal consequences, such as did the slide that occurred near Oso, Washington in 2014. Forty-three people were killed and entire rural neighborhood was destroyed. In this unit, ...
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Module 5: Soils and Nutrients
Steven Vanek, Pennsylvania State Univ-Penn St. Erie-Behrend Coll
The purpose of this module is to give you as a learner a basic grounding in the nature of soils and soil nutrients. Module 5.1 provides the foundation for understanding soils, soil nutrients, and their connection ...
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Module 9: Climate Change
Gigi Richard, Fort Lewis College
Module 9 is dedicated to climate change and explores the role that agriculture plays in human-induced climate change and the impacts that climate change may have on agriculture. In addition, adaptation strategies ...
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Unit 1: The Food-Energy-Water Connection
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Cynthia Hewitt, Morehouse College; Akin Akinyemi, Florida State University; Cheryl Young, Heritage University
This unit is designed to function as three days of instruction in an introductory urban planning, environmental science/studies or public health course.
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