InTeGrate supports integrated interdisciplinary learning about resource and environmental issues across the undergraduate curriculum to create a sustainable and just civilization. A five-year community effort to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues . InTeGrate seeks to transform the role of geoscience in higher education by linking teaching about Earth to the societal issues that our science serves. What is InTeGrate – NSF step center, community effort An NSF STEP Center

Resources for Departments Teaching Geoscience in Context of Societal issues: Materials with full Support for adoption; Implementation groups Teaching with Good Pedagogy: Rubric, NAGT review process Professional Development: Traveling Webinars, Workshop Program, Rendezvous Resources for Departments: Implementation Program Models, Website

INTRODUCING OUR NEW TEACHING MATERIALS An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources module Carbon, Climate and Energy Resources module Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts module Coastal Processes, Hazards, and Society course Earth’s Thermostat module Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources (Spanish Adaptation) module Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception module Ocean Sustainability module Soils, Systems and Society module Systems Thinking module Water Sustainability in Cities module

Seeking Completed Reviews by Mid-January

Resources for Departments Teaching Geoscience in Context of Societal issues: Materials with implementation groups, Website Teaching with Good Pedagogy: Rubric, NAGT review process, Traveling workshop program Professional Development: Rendezvous, Traveling Workshop Program, Webinars Resources for Departments: Implementation Program Models, Website

Materials Design Rubric Learning Objectives and Outcomes Assessment and Measurement Resources and Materials Instructional Strategies Alignment Traveling Workshop Program Brings to You

Cutting Edge Peer Review Process Now Institutionalized as an Annual Review

Resources for Departments Teaching Geoscience in Context of Societal issues: Materials with implementation groups, Website Teaching with Good Pedagogy: Rubric, NAGT review process Professional Development: Rendezvous, Traveling Workshop Program, Webinars, Resources for Departments:Website with Implementation Program Models,

Program-level goals Interdisciplinary programs, majors or certificate programs with a strong geoscience component designed to prepare students for careers addressing challenges of sustainability; Programs that engage students with issues of sustainability and their scientific underpinnings and provide a continuous pathway from high school to a STEM degree; Programs that increase the enrollment and graduation of students from underrepresented groups to broaden access in the geosciences; 2Programs that broaden access to science by introducing geoscience across the liberal arts curriculum; 7 Inter-institutional programs that bring geoscience into courses at institutions without geoscience faculty including minority-serving institutions and 2YCs; 3 Programs that strengthen the role of geoscience in the preparation and professional development of K-12 teachers, including but not limited to Earth science teachers; 10 Programs that introduce or strengthen the role of geoscience in the preparation of STEM majors outside of the geosciences. 4 Programs that facilitate the transition from college or university to the workforce.

16 IPs

Synthesis of Lessons Learned in the Model Programs Recruiting and Supporting Diverse Learners Teaching Earth Across the Curriculum Preparing Teachers to Teach Earth Science Supporting Transitions to Careers Making Change Happen

Resources for Departments Teaching Geoscience in Context of Societal issues: Materials with implementation groups, Website Teaching with Good Pedagogy: Rubric, NAGT review process Professional Development: Rendezvous, Traveling Workshop Program, Webinars, Resources for Departments: Implementation Program Models, Website

Application Deadlines: January 31 and March 15  

2016-2017 Webinar Series

WORKSHOPS FOR 2017 Pan-African Approaches to Teaching Geoscience Winter 2017 Morehouse College Teaching about the Earth Online May 30-June 1, 2017 Penn State University Earth Educators' Rendezvous July 17-21, 2017 University of New Mexico-Albuquerque Traveling Workshops Program- Bring InTeGrate to your department or region Virtual Workshops and Webinars