Byrne, Loren B.

Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies.

Cham

2016

978-3-319-28543-6

978-3-319-28541-2

63028

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 via hands-on engagement, and encourage personal reflection through metacognitive tasks. In addition, learner-centered classroom approaches may challenge students′ preconceived notions and expand their thinking by confronting them with thought-provoking statements, tasks or scenarios that cause them to pay closer attention and cognitively ″see″ a topic from new perspectives. Many types of pedagogy fall under the umbrella of learner-centered teaching including laboratory work, group discussions, service and project-based learning, and student-led research, among others. Unfortunately, it is often not possible to use some of these valuable methods in all course situations given constraints of money, space, instructor expertise, class-meeting and instructor preparation time, and the availability of prepared lesson plans and material. Thus, a major challenge for many instructors is how to integrate learner-centered activities widely into their courses.

The broad goal of this volume is to help advance environmental education practices that help increase students′ environmental literacy. Having a diverse collection of learner-centered teaching activities is especially useful for helping students develop their environmental literacy because such approaches can help them connect more personally with the material thus increasing the chances for altering the affective and behavioral dimensions of their environmental literacy. This volume differentiates itself from others by providing a unique and diverse collection of classroom activities that can help students develop their knowledge, skills and personal views about many contemporary environmental and sustainability issues.

Inhaltsverzeichnis (43 Kapitel)

Learner-Centered Teaching for Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Byrne, Loren B.

Seiten 1-28
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Which Is Most Sustainable? Using Everyday Objects to Examine Trade-Offs Among the ″Three Pillars″ of Sustainability

McKendry, Corina

Seiten 31-36

An Introduction to Systems Thinking Using Plastic Dinosaurs

Hyatt, Laura A.

Seiten 37-42

An Introductory Examination of Worldviews and Why They Matter for Environmental and Sustainability Studies

Byrne, Loren B.

Seiten 43-50

Building Resilience: Modeling Resilience Concepts Using Legos

Quinn, Courtney E. (et al.)

Seiten 51-56

Eco-crimes and Eco-redemptions: Discussing the Challenges and Opportunities of Personal Sustainability

Quesada-Embid, Mercedes C.

Seiten 57-64

Engaging with Complexity: Exploring the Terrain of Leadership for Sustainability

Kolan, Matthew

Seiten 65-71

Discovering Authentic Hope: Helping Students Reflect on Learning and Living with Purpose

Langmaid, Kimberly F.

Seiten 73-78

Teaching How Scientific Consensus Is Developed Through Simplified Meta-analysis of Peer-Reviewed Literature

Rauschert, Emily S. J.

Seiten 79-86

Understanding Ecosystems and Their Services Through Apollo 13 and Bottle Models

Agouridis, Carmen T. (et al.)

Seiten 89-96

Using Soil Organisms to Explore Ecosystem Functioning, Services, and Sustainability

Baum, Jessica (et al.)

Seiten 97-103

Fire, Pollution, and Grazing: Oh My! A Game in Which Native and Invasive Plants Compete Under Multiple Disturbance Regimes

Schneider, Heather E. (et al.)

Seiten 105-110

Exploring Trophic Cascades in Lake Food Webs with a Spreadsheet Model

Emery, Kyle A. (et al.)

Seiten 111-115

Ants, Elephants, and Experimental Design: Understanding Science and Examining Connections Between Species Interactions and Ecosystem Processes

Stracey, Christine M.

Seiten 117-122

Teaching Lyme Disease Ecology Through a Primary Literature Jigsaw Activity

Pasari, Jae R.

Seiten 123-127

A Fishery Activity to Examine the Tragedy of the Common Goldfish Cracker

Madosky, Jessa

Seiten 129-135

Making Biodiversity Stewardship Tangible Using a Place-Based Approach

Vatovec, Christine

Seiten 137-141

Conservation Triage: Debating Which Species to Save and Why

Byrne, Loren B.

Seiten 143-148

Everything Cannot Be Equal: Ranking Priorities and Revealing Worldviews to Guide Watershed Management

Cutts, Bethany B.

Seiten 149-154

Location, Location, Location! Analyzing Residential Development in Environmentally-Fragile Areas

Morin, Erica A.

Seiten 155-162

Tasting Sustainability: Using Multisensory Activities to Retune Food Preferences

Gaddis, Jennifer

Seiten 165-171

Relationships Between Consumption and Sustainability: Assessing the Effect of Life Cycle Costs on Market Price

Venkatesan, Madhavi

Seiten 173-180

Business Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line: Considering the Interrelationships of People, Profit, and Planet

Smith, Marilyn

Seiten 181-186

A Triple-Bottom-Line Analysis of Energy-Efficient Lighting

Lindstrom, Timothy (et al.)

Seiten 187-193

Go with the Flow: Analyzing Energy Use and Efficiency in the USA

Wagner, James D.

Seiten 195-200

Exploring Complexities of Energy Options Through a Jigsaw Activity

Hensley, Nathan

Seiten 201-206

Introducing the Conflicting Meanings of ″Justice″ Using a Candy-Distribution Exercise

Darby, Kate J.

Seiten 209-214

Beyond Band-Aids: Using Systems Thinking to Assess Environmental Justice

Jarchow, Meghann

Seiten 215-219

Engaging the Empathic Imagination to Explore Environmental Justice

Witt, Joseph

Seiten 221-226

Helping Students Envision Justice in the Sustainable City

Long, Joshua

Seiten 227-232

Social-Ecological Systems Mapping to Enhance Students′ Understanding of Community-Scale Conflicts Related to Industrial Pollution

Gervich, Curt Dawe

Seiten 233-238

The Skies, the Limits: Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Tighter US Soot Emission Standards

Cooke, Sandra L.

Seiten 239-244

Don′t Blame the Trees: Using Data to Examine How Trees Contribute to Air Pollution

Crumrine, Patrick W.

Seiten 245-250

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Green Roofs: A Case Study for Literature Research and Critical Thinking

Crispo, Erika

Seiten 253-259

The Story of Source Reliability: Practicing Research and Evaluation Skills Using ″The Story of Stuff″ Video

LaFantasie, J. J.

Seiten 261-266

Critically Evaluating Non-Scholarly Sources Through Team-Based Learning

Ruhl, Nathan

Seiten 267-271

Using the Insight, Question, and Challenge (IQC) Framework to Improve Students′ Environmental Communication Skills

Tarrant, Seaton

Seiten 273-278

Building Students′ Communication Skills and Understanding of Environmental and Sustainability Issues Interactively and Cumulatively with Pecha Kucha Presentations

McBain, Bonnie (et al.)

Seiten 279-284

Engaging in Climate Change Conversations: A Role-Playing Exercise to Cultivate Effective Communication

Siperstein, Stephen

Seiten 285-292

Writing Letters to the Editor to Promote Environmental Citizenship and Improve Student Writing

Schneller, Andrew J.

Seiten 293-299

Captioning Political Cartoons from Different Perspectives as a Tool for Student Reflection

Owens, Katharine A.

Seiten 301-306

Analyzing Nature as a Persuasive Tool in Advertisements

Duncan, Rebecca

Seiten 307-311

Making and Assessing Art in the Sustainability Classroom

Borsari, Bruno

Seiten 313-318

Index 319

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12.12.2017