Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Learner-centered teaching is a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the roles of students as participants in and drivers of their own learning. Learner-centered teaching activities go beyond traditional lecturing by helping students construct their own understanding of information, develop skills vi...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Byrne, Loren B. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2016.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Which is Most Sustainable? Using Everyday Objects to Examine Trade-offs among the “Three Pillars” of Sustainability
  • An Introduction to Systems Thinking using Plastic Dinosaurs
  • An Introductory Examination of Worldviews and Why They Matter For Environmental and Sustainability Studies
  • Building Resilience: Modeling Resilience Concepts Using Legos
  • Eco-Crimes and Eco-Redemptions: Discussing the Challenges and Opportunities of Personal Sustainability
  • Engaging with Complexity: Exploring the Terrain of Leadership for Sustainability
  • Discovering Authentic Hope: Helping Students Reflect on Learning and Living with Purpose
  • Teaching How Scientific Consensus is Developed through Simplified Meta-analysis of Peer-reviewed Literature
  • Understanding Ecosystems and Their Services through Apollo 13 and Bottle Models
  • Using Soil Organisms to Explore Ecosystem Functioning, Services, and Sustainability
  • Fire, Pollution and Grazing, Oh My! A Game in which Native and Invasive Plants Compete under Multiple Disturbance Regimes
  • Exploring Trophic Cascades in Lake Food Webs with a Spreadsheet Model
  • Ants, Elephants, and Experimental Design: Understanding Science and Examining Connections between Species Interactions and Ecosystem Processes
  • Teaching Lyme Disease Ecology Through a Primary-Literature Jigsaw Activity
  • A Fisheries Activity to Examine the Tragedy of the Common Goldfish Cracker
  • Making Biodiversity Stewardship Tangible using a Place-based Approach
  • Conservation Triage: Debating Which Species to Save and Why
  • Everything Cannot Be Equal: Ranking Priorities and Revealing Worldviews to Guide Watershed Management
  • Location, Location, Location! Analyzing Residential Development in Environmentally-Fragile Areas
  • Tasting Sustainability: Using Multi-sensory Activities to Retune Food Preferences
  • Relationships between Consumption and Sustainability: Assessing the Effect of Life Cycle Costs on Market Price
  • Business Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line: Considering the Interrelationships of People, Profit, and Planet
  • A Triple-Bottom-Line Analysis of Energy Efficient Lighting
  • Go with the Flow: Analyzing Energy Use and Efficiency in the U.S
  • Exploring Complexities of Energy Options through a Jigsaw Activity
  • Introducing the Conflicting Meanings of “Justice” Using a Candy-distribution Exercise
  • Beyond Band-Aids: Using Systems Thinking to Assess Environmental Justice
  • Engaging the Empathic Imagination to Explore Environmental Justice
  • Helping Students Envision Justice in the Sustainable City
  • Social-ecological Systems Mapping to Enhance Students’ Understanding of Community-Scale Conflicts Related to Industrial Pollution
  • The Skies, the Limits: Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Tighter U.S. Soot Emission Standards
  • Don’t Blame the Trees: Using Data to Examine how Trees Contribute to Air Pollution
  • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Green Roofs: A Case Study for Literature Research and Critical Thinking
  • The Story of Source Reliability: Practicing Research and Evaluation Skills Using “The Story of Stuff” Video
  • Critically Evaluating Non-scholarly Sources through Team-Based Learning
  • Using the Insights, Questions and Challenges (IQC) Framework to Improve Students’ Environmental Communication Skills
  • Building Students’ Communication Skills and Understanding of Environmental and Sustainability Issues Interactively and Cumulatively with Pecha Kucha Presentations
  • Engaging in Climate Change Conversations: A Role-Playing Exercise to Cultivate Effective Communication
  • Writing Letters to the Editor to Promote Environmental Citizenship and Improve Student Writing
  • Captioning Political Cartoons from Different Perspectives as a Tool for Student Reflection
  • Analyzing Nature as a Persuasive Tool in Advertisements
  • Making and Assessing Art in the Sustainability Classroom.