InTeGrate

I have been using a combination of units from the Modules in A Growing Concern and Soils, Systems, and Society in my Introduction to Environmental Science course.  The course itself is a mix of majors taking it for their Environmental Science Associates Degree and non-majors taking it as an elective.  This course does not have a lab, and due to time constraints we do not take field trips, but I do try to make the course as meaningful as possible with a wide variety of projects, writings, discussions, and traditional assessments.  Soils have always been a topic within the course but I've found that with the InTeGrate materials, I've been able to weave soils as a thread throughout the class, much as I do with climate change.  By doing so, the students can see the both the interdisciplinarity of the sciences but also the integration of these varied issues with one another.