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Salmon, Society, and Success: A case study on the intersections of colonialism, ecological degradation, and the power of social action.
12 Sep 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kylea Rose Garces
Northeastern University
Using a case study approach, this lesson examines colonialism as an ongoing force affecting nature, culture, and society by focusing on decades of tribally led efforts resulting in recent federal...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4984/?v=1
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Course materials for Quantifying Environmental Justice
01 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jabari Jones
Bowdoin College
Course materials for Quantifying Environmental Justice, taught as Environmental Science 4201 at University of Minnesota, Morris in Spring 2023. Description:The concept of justice has received...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4538/?v=1
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Linking Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis to Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation
31 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sunshine Brosi
Utah State University
Traditional Ecological Knowledge is based on deep understanding of systems from observations made over hundreds to thousands of years. This resource connects Traditional Ecological Knowledge to...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3361/?v=1
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Revising Social & Environmental Justice Open Educational Resources through UDL and Accessibility Lenses
06 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Tamara Basham1, Laura Catano2, Stephanie M. Gardner3, Amee Evans Godwin4, David Groh5, Rachel Hutto, Pat Marsteller6, Mary Mulcahy7, Hayley Orndorf8, Molly Phillips9, Beatriz Villar10
1. Collin County Commuity College District 2. The University of California, Riverside 3. Purdue University 4. ISKME 5. Good Samaritan College 6. Emory University 7. University of Pittsburgh at Bradford 8. University of Pittsburgh 9. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida 10. Northampton CC
The Revising Social & Environmental Justice Open Educational Resources through UDL and Accessibility Lenses Working Group met during the Fall 2021 semester as part of the BIOME Institute. This...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2813/?v=1
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Air Quality Data Mining: Mining the US EPA AirData website for student-led evaluation of air quality issues
24 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Mary Williams1, Katherine Barry2, Deena Wassenberg2
1. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 2. University of Minnesota
Air pollution directly affects human health endpoints including growth, respiratory processes, cardiovascular health, fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and cancer. Therefore, the distribution of air...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2549/?v=1
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Assessing Socioeconomic Trends in Tree Cover and Human Health in Urban Environments
02 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Tamara Basham
Collin County Commuity College District
In this exercise, students use a combination of publicly available data and tree cover data that they generate using iTree Canopy to test whether tree cover is equitably distributed within the city...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2363/?v=1
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Integrating Social Justice into your STEM Classroom: Redlining & Environmental Science
25 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Tamara Basham1, Denise Piechnik2, Durrain Ansari-Yan3, Mackenzie Boyer4, Marci Cole Ekberg5, Matthew Joshua Heard6, Adriane Clark Jones7, Shannon Jones8, Jennifer Kovacs9, Erica Lannan10, Pat Marsteller11, Mary Mulcahy2, Sarah Prescott12, Gustavo Requena Santos13, Ethell Vereen14
1. Collin County Commuity College District 2. University of Pittsburgh at Bradford 3. Diablo Valley college 4. Arizona State University 5. Diablo Valley College 6. Belmont University 7. Mount Saint Mary's University 8. University of Richmond 9. Agnes Scott College 10. Prairie State College 11. Emory University 12. BioQUEST - Executive Director / UNH - Assoc. Prof. 13. Science Yourself 14. Morehouse College
Materials for the workshop on social justice presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2486/?v=1
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Exploring EnvironmenATL Justice with Data Analytics and Visualization
14 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Ethell Vereen
Morehouse College
Basic data handling and data analysis skills are introduced to visualize and analyze ‘big data.’ Environmental justice is introduced to give students an understanding of tools and strategies to...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2372/?v=1
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The Legacy of Redlining in Oakland, CA
13 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Marci Cole Ekberg
The issues of redlining and environmental justice will be introduced and used as a framework for a number of topics in the third part of the semester in a non-majors Environmental Science course.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2362/?v=1
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Conservation
19 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Mary Heskel
Macalester College
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is based on deep understanding of systems from observations made over hundreds to thousands of years. This resource connects TEK to modern conservation...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1939/?v=1