A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues InTeGrate supports the teaching of geoscience in the context of societal issues both within geoscience courses and across the undergraduate curriculum. What is InTeGrate An NSF STEP Center DUE-1125331

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 Gloss this quickly – the point is that geoscience is important both for the workforce and broad literacy USGS Barefoot Photographers of Tilonia

Implicit in this model is that InTeGrate supports transformation of teaching in higher education to support engaged learning.

A Systems Model for Transformation of Individuals, Institutions, and Education InTegrate builds on Cutting Edge and Building Strong Departments. It works at faculty/course scale and at the department/program scale. Both efforts are supported by professional development workshops and a website. Most of the activity in the first year has been on materials development and professional development. A year from now there will be small grants for program development.

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 $45,000 stipend for modules and $75,000 stipend for courses Materials development is the other big thing with opportunities right now. Empahsize that development is by teams with members from 3 institutions, that it is a 2 year commitents and that you have to be able/willing to use the materials in a course (or for the case of a course, teach the whole course) in the second year. Call for proposals

Design Goals* Address one or more geoscience-related grand challenges facing society Develop student ability to address interdisciplinary problems Improve student understanding of the nature and methods of geoscience and developing geoscientific habits of mind Make use of authentic and credible geoscience data to learn central concepts in the context of geoscience methods of inquiry Develop systems thinking * Referred to as Guiding Principles for Curriculum Design

Pedagogic Goals Engaged, student centered, research based pedagogy supports higher order learning Alignment of goals, materials and assessments supports and documents learning Develops scientific thinking and an understanding of the process of science Materials can be used successfully in multiple settings

Implementation Goals Materials are used widely by faculty across the country Materials are used in courses outside geoscience departments Learning by students can be documented to show increased higher level understanding of sustainability and geoscience

Linking Goals and Process: The Materials Design Rubric Guiding Principles Learning Objectives and Outcomes Assessment and Measurement Resources and Materials Instructional Strategies Alignment

Linking Goals and Process: Part 2: Testing and Publishing Collection of assessment data Revision of materials Publication of teaching materials and supporting information for faculty Case studies document implementation at your institutions

Executive Editor/Team Lead Documentation Assessment consultant CMS Webteam Liaison October Meeting