Community Collection of Sustainability Teaching Materials
Activities, Modules and Courses
This collection draws from community contributions across multiple projects that align broadly with InTeGrate's focus of interdisciplinary teaching about a sustainable future. You may also be interested in the smaller collection of teaching materials developed directly by InTeGrate.
Sustainability Topics
- Biodiversity 9 matches
- Civil Society & Governance 30 matches
- Climate Change 163 matches
- Cultures, Ethics, & Values 74 matches
- Cycles & Systems 102 matches
- Design & Planning 48 matches
- Ecosystems 122 matches
- Energy 87 matches
- Food Systems & Agriculture 89 matches
- Future Studies & Visioning 5 matches
- Human Health & Well-being 65 matches
- Human Impact & Footprint 132 matches
- Lifestyles & Consumption 57 matches
- Natural Resources 94 matches
- Natural Hazards 100 matches
- Pollution & Waste 73 matches
- Risk & Resilience 50 matches
- Sense of Place 56 matches
- Social & Environmental Justice 90 matches
- Technology 16 matches
- Water & Watersheds 168 matches
Resource Type
- Activities 546 matches
- Assessments 1 match
- Course Information 41 matches
- Course Module 261 matches set of activities taking one or more class periods, like a unit
- Curriculum Description 1 match
- Datasets and Tools 10 matches
- Audio/Visual 4 matches
- Computer Applications 7 matches
- Real-world Examples 8 matches examples of events and processes; less loaded term than 'case study'
- Essays and Blog Posts 1 match
Subject
- Anthropology 11 matches
- Biology 69 matches
- Business 6 matches
- Chemistry 36 matches
- Computer Science 1 match
- Economics 21 matches
- Education 8 matches
- Engineering 22 matches
- English 36 matches
- Environmental Science 634 matches
- Fine Arts 3 matches
- Geography 161 matches
- Geoscience 482 matches
- Health Sciences 65 matches human health topics
- History 6 matches
- Languages 6 matches
- Mathematics 41 matches
- Physics 13 matches
- Political Science 36 matches
- Psychology 7 matches
- Religion 1 match
- Social Science 1 match
- Sociology 38 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 666 matches
8. Efficiency and Conservation
Maurice Crawford, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore
Household energy use accounts for a significant portion of the nation's energy use; therefore, an important aspect of energy conservation is having buildings that are energy efficient. In this activity, ...
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11. Composting Toilets
Maurice Crawford, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore; Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University
Toilet use accounts for the largest use of water in single family homes. In 2016, the average US household toilet accounted for a quarter of a home's total indoor water. Compost toilets are one method that may ...
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Unit 1: The Food-Energy-Water Connection
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University; Cynthia Hewitt, Morehouse College; Akin Akinyemi, Florida State University; Cheryl Young, Heritage University
This unit is designed to function as three days of instruction in an introductory urban planning, environmental science/studies or public health course.
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9. Hybrid and Electric Cars
Randolph Chambers, College of William and Mary
This module reviews the history of the automobile and its varied power sources, culminating in the latest versions of hybrid and electric cars.
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5. Passive Designs
Randolph Chambers, College of William and Mary
In this module, we consider how the actual design and placement of buildings can be important considerations for energy efficiency, thereby optimizing winter heating and summer cooling needs. One of the simplest ...
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6. Energy from and to the Earth
Randolph Chambers, College of William and Mary
This module compares the spatial availability of geothermal resources for heating and cooling and evaluates different ground exchange systems for practical application. The operation of enhanced geothermal systems ...
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7. Better Ways to Illuminate
Maurice Crawford, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore
In this module, students compare three types of lamps that are used for lighting: incandescent, compact fluorescent (CFL) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Students collect data on the amount of heat and light ...
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Unit 6: Hydrologic Balance and Climate Change
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
In this unit, students create a STELLA model of the Owens River chain of lakes in eastern California and then experiment with different climate change scenarios to simulate the Pleistocene history of lake filling ...
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Unit 7: Heat Flow in Permafrost
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
In this unit, students create a STELLA model of heat flow in the top 1 km of Earth's crust to explore the use of Arctic borehole temperature profiles as recorders of anthropogenic warming. The exercise draws ...
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Unit 8: Thermohaline Circulation
David Bice, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this module, students first review some background material on density-driven deep currents in the oceans, and then create a STELLA model of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean. The model ...
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