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1 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

2 Why Risk and Resilence? 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

3 Program

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

5 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.

6 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

7 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.


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