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. 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

A Systems Model for Impact Workshops Materials Development Implementation Programs A Systems Model for Impact

InTeGrate Workshops: Building Capacity for Interdisciplinary Teaching Rubber meets the road – understanding the natural and human system well enough to take actions that lead to positive change. Few of us have that level of understanding – how can we pass it on to our students? Prudent action requires knowledge, insight, humility, compassion, team work and individual action --- how do we develop those skills in our students? Upside – way engaging and fun, powerful, enables a difference

InTeGrate Website 900 pages, 265 essays, 122 activities, 92 course descriptions, 189 program descriptions For Faculty and Instructors: Undergraduate Teaching for a Sustainable Future For Program Directors and Administrators: Laying the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Sustainable Workforce

A Systems Model for Impact Workshops Materials Development Implementation Programs A Systems Model for Impact

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 $15,000 stipend for each team member 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.

Sustainable Agriculture and Earth Systems Climate of Change: Interactions Between Water, Air and Ice Living on the Edge: Resilient Societies on Active Plate Margins Human Dependence on Earth's Mineral Resources Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception Natural Hazards and Risks: Hurricanes Water Sustainability in Cities Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources

Implementation Programs Develop a new vision for developing Earth savvy in higher education Within and beyond geoscience departments Within and beyond single institutions 20 by application in years 3-5 Up to $50K to support design and development Workshop Program

A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues Full information on the website. There is also a town hall meeting on Tuesday where you can learn more. InTeGrate is a community effort – we hope you will be involved. http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate

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