1. This work is supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) collaboration between the Directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Geosciences (GEO) under grant DUE - 1125331 Adapting InTeGrate materials to the best effect Anne Egger Central Washington University i.e. Staying true to our goals while meeting your needs

2. A 5-year community effort to improve Earth literacy and build a workforce prepared to tackle environmental and resource issues NSF’s STEP Center in Geoscience InTeGrate supports integrated interdisciplinary learning about resource and environmental issues across the undergraduate curriculum to create a sustainable and just civilization. What is InTeGrate?

3. How do our goals compare to the overall goals of your course? Earth literacy and workforce preparation: Students will analyze climate data and evaluate how interactions between climate system components lead to climate variability that impacts human societies. Climate of Change Students will use data to address the complex interdisciplinary problems of where, when, and how hurricanes happen, how land and human systems are affected, how to deal with uncertainty in forecasts, and both societal and personal responses to hurricanes. Natural Hazards and Risks: Hurricanes

4. Building Earth literacy and preparing a new kind of workforce Requires curricular materials that … Engage all students in a variety of settings Address grand challenges society is facing Use rigorous science Use best practices in learning Are adaptable and adoptable by instructors How do we ensure that all of these conditions are met in the materials we develop?

5. 1. Design of development teams Three instructors from three different institutions (and often from three different disciplines) Assessment consultant from assessment team Web consultant from web team Content area leader from leadership team

6. 2. Our goals are encoded in the materials design rubric Guiding Principles Learning Objectives and Outcomes Assessment and Measurement Resources and Materials Instructional Strategies Alignment

7. Guiding principles Address one or more geoscience-related grand challenges facing society Develop students’ abilities to address interdisciplinary problems Improve students’ geoscientific thinking skills Make use of authentic geoscience data Develop students’ systems thinking skills

8. The Rest of the Rubric Drawn from high-impact practices and research on learning Based on a backward design model* –Identify the desired results (learning outcomes) –Determine how you will know that students have met the outcomes (assessment) –Develop the learning experiences and activities that will give students practice *Wiggins and McTighe, 1999

9. 3. We capture instructor stories

10. In other words… We’ve done a lot of work for you! –Activities and assessments that tie Earth science content to societal issues –Assessments that come with rubrics tied to learning goals –At least three examples of how people just like you taught with the materials And yet, we know it’s overwhelming. So…

11. LET’S LOOK AT A MODULE.LOOK AT A MODULE.

12. What are your thoughts right now?

13. Directions Break into groups of three. Take 15 minutes to look through your assigned module together, including the instructor stories, and discuss excitement, concerns, potential challenges. Come back and discuss.

14. More resources Teaching for a Sustainable Future Pedagogy in Action

15. Thank you! 2015-2016 Scheduled Webinars Developing Systems Thinking: (Hannah Scherer, Virginia Tech), Fri, Oct 23, 2015, 9 am Pacific | 10 am Mountain | 11 am Central | 12:00 pm Eastern – Registration now open! The Pathway to Systemic Change: (Judith Ramaley, Portland State University), Thu, Nov 12, 2015, 9 am Pacific | 10 am Mountain | 11 am Central | 12:00 pm Eastern Learning to Learn: Incorporating metacognition into the classroom: (Karl Wirth, Macalester College), Tue, Nov 17, 2015, 9 am Pacific | 10 am Mountain | 11 am Central | 12:00 pm Eastern Dealing with Copyright: (Sean Fox, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College), Fri, Dec 4, 2015, 9 am Pacific | 10 am Mountain | 11 am Central | 12:00 pm Eastern Getting Ready to Pilot: (Monica Bruckner, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College), Thu, Jan 7, 2015, 9 am Pacific | 10 am Mountain | 11 am Central | 12:00 pm Eastern