Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies - Byrne, Loren B.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
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.
Keywords: Sustainable development; Learning; Instruction; Science education; Literacy; Sustainable Development; Learning & Instruction; Science Education; Literacy