This resource contains directions for a project about Indigenous mapmaking. Informed by readings on Indigenous mapmaking, students are asked to re-create a map incorporating Indigenous map-making practices and methods and to write a reflection essay. 

This resource contains five excerpts from documents about indigenous women in Latin America and critical questions about these excerpts.

Namibia has about eleven indigenous languages spoken by the native people. However, some of the languages are becoming andangered because the speakers are no more alive. The young generation is focusing more on speaking the official language, which is English. Thus, there is a need to preserve our indigenous languages by incorporating them into the school curriculum, especially at primary level. 

This is a group of assignments developed for GEO 100: Introduction to Geography at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, MD. There are three activities that work together to help students assess the connections between ecological destruction and modern forms of slavery in the context of thier own everyday lives. Although not addressed in the materials, it should be noted that individual choices only go so far, and that the discourse of "consumer choice" can oftentimes serve as a distraction from the broader structural reforms necessary to fully and effectively address climate change.The attached Word document provides instructor background, assignment information and tasks that can be pasted into an LMS, assessment guidelines for crafting rubirics, two links to assignment worksheets, and one link to a final project PowerPoint template.

It is still unknown whether the cluster of childhood leukemia cases in east Woburn was caused by TCE and PCE contamination from five known sources of contamination within the capture zones of municipal wells G and H, or whether the leukemias were caused by induced infiltration of Aberjona River water, which may have contained dissolved concentrations of arsenic, chromium, and lead. Several papers have been written about the arsenic, chromium, and lead contamination in Woburn. These papers could be read, combined with a broad discussion about mobility of heavy metals under different oxidation states, hypotheses drawn by the class, and experiments designed by the students to ascertain whether contaminated river water could have reached wells G and H. Designing an experiment to test an hypothesis is a higher-order thinking skill needed by all scientists and engineers.

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The Industrial Ecology Open Online Course (IEooc) is a collection of web content on industrial ecology background, methods, and applications. It has two purposes: First, to document and explain some of the ‘soft’ knowledge around industrial ecology concepts, methods, data, and applications that is needed to conduct state-of-the-art industrial ecology research. Second, to guide new industrial ecology researchers towards having fun and impact with properly conducted science for sustainability.

The course was developed for university students. It features the following items, which are freely available for educational use: lectures (screencasts and webinars of 15-60 minutes), exercises with sample solutions, code samples or notebooks, and reading material (papers, essays, reports, blog entries). There are now more than 40 exercises and tutorials, and these form the core of this course.

This google doc assignment asks students to identify the invention, inventor, impact, and find a picture 

This Wiki has been set up to help assist with learning FANUC's HandlingTool Operations and Programming. While the intention is to help the Erie Community College students of the Mechatronics program, it is freely available to anyone wishing to learn about the use of FANUC robots.

This lesson presents an overview of the seven areas of Plant Systems:  plant science, crop science, soil science, pomology, olericulture, floriculture, and landscaping and nursery.  Learners then complete a career report over one career from Plant Systems.

Inflation is a increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time

This inflation worksheet offers students an opportunity to practice calculating the inflation rate by utilizing the GDP deflator and the Consumer Price Index.

This video consists of information about the influence that media has on adolescents in todays media filled age. Me and my partner go over why we decided to teach the class in the manor that we did. The video contains an explanation of activities used during our lecture as well as brief explanations of topics covered. I hope you enjoy being informed of the positive and negative effects of media!

“La educación es un proceso sociocultural mediante el cual una generación transmite a otra saberes y contenidos valorados culturalmente, que se expresan en los distintos currículos, tanto los de los niveles básicos como los de los superiores. Dichos contenidos deberán ser aprendidos por los alumnos de la forma más significativa posible. Esto quiere decir que los contenidos curriculares deben ser presentados y organizados de manera tal que los alumnos encuentren en ellos un sentido y un valor funcional para aprenderlos.” (Hernandez Rojas, 1998, pág. 131)

This contains an information analysis of a unit. The unit is three-day instruction. It also contains activities to be performed

The project asks students to explore the connection between racial discrimination and racial disparities in U.S. prison populations using credible sources of information including qualitative and statistical methods. The resource was developed by a faculty member and librarian in order to promote using library resources in the classroom. It was designed to encourage information literacy among students.