1. An NSF STEP Center in the Geoscience
InTeGrate: Interdisciplinary Teaching of Geoscience for a Sustainable Future
An NSF STEP Center in the Geoscience
Cathy Manduca , Sean Fox, Ellen Iverson, Carleton College; Carol Baldassari, Lesley University; David Blockstein, NCSE; Tim Bralower, Dave Bice, Penn State; Diane Doser, Laura Serpa UTEP; Anne Egger, Central Washington University; David Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kim Kastens, Columbia University; Pam Matson, Steve Graham, Richard Nevle ,Stanford University; David McConnell, North Carolina State; Elizabeth Nagy-Shadman, Pasadena City College; David Steer, University of Akron; John Taber, IRIS

2. A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues
Increasing the focus on addressing societal issues in geoscience; increasing geoscience in other areas that address environmental and resource issues

3. The STEP Centers competition allows a group of faculty representing a cross section of institutions of higher education to identify a national challenge or opportunity in undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to propose a comprehensive and coordinated set of activities that will be carried out to address that challenge or opportunity within a national context.  Program activities for all STEP Centers should be designed to have a national impact on increasing the number of students, including STEM majors or non-STEM majors or both, enrolling in undergraduate courses in STEM Projects submitted to the EHR-GEO STEP Center competition should be focused on essential concepts in Earth System Science and its foundational importance in areas such as the interplay of environment, energy, and economics. 
Increasing the focus on addressing societal issues in geoscience; increasing geoscience in other areas that address environmental and resource issues

4. A Systems Model for Transformation of Individuals, Institutions, and the Geoscience Community
Materials Development
Implementation Programs
Assessment
Program Evaluation
Professional Development
Website, Project Office
Three views of how to change undergraduate education
don’t know about or how to do – problem is learning about it enough to transform
Materials limited – takes time to make the stuff you need to teach this way; no textbooks; hard to get from data to activity that students can do with data – if we build it will they come; culture of creation
Problem is at the institutional level – can’t teach this stuff in existing programs, no rewards, - problem, if adminstration leads will faculty follow? Faculty as resources
PD builds on Cutting Edge and Building Strong Departments – culture of sharing at both course and program level; transforming attitude and approach (student centered learning informed by research; department as a team that plans and works together to address and shape goals of institution.
Other two pieces are new to me and new at this scale: Team based materials development, testing and publication at a large scale (150 faculty); implementation program development and testing (26 programs). Addresses need to support doing after learning required both learning and implementation

5. Assessment Evaluation impact of InTeGrate on ensure that materials
increase geoscience literacy,
understanding of the process of science, and
improve interdisciplinary problem solving
while using research-based teaching methods and meeting their stated learning goals
David Steer, University of Akron; Ellen Iverson SERC, 10 person team
Evaluation
impact of InTeGrate on
programming,
student learning, and
students’ ability and willingness to engage in societal roles addressing the sustainability of our civilization and environment.
Kim Kastens, Columbia; Carol Baldessari, PERG; Frances Laurentz, University of Minnesota

6. Implementation Programs
Develop a new vision for how geoscience is positioned in higher education
Infuse geoscience throughout the curriculum
Leverage existing geoscience, environmental science and engineering programs to address solutions for societal problems
Engage younger students in the geosciences and increase geoscience enrollment
Within and beyond geoscience departments
Within and beyond single institutions
20 by application in years 3-5

7. A five-year community effort to improve geoscience literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues