We are pleased to announce the next installment in the 2016 InTeGrate professional development webinar series.
Free and open to the public, this series will incorporate InTeGrate pedagogies into teaching practices, provide resources available for adoption, and create a forum for participants to learn and share teaching strategies. Join us for our next webinar: Teaching about Soils as a Critical Resource: Materials and Activities for your Classroom One, 60-minute virtual session - Thursday, April 21 12:00 pm Pacific | 1:00 pm Mountain | 2:00 pm Central | 3:00 pm Eastern Registration deadline : Tuesday, April 19 Visit: http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/webinars/2015_2016/soils/registration.html This webinar will demonstrate how soils can be used to broaden students' understanding of the Earth system and human impacts on this system. Kathryn Baldwin is the author of the InTeGrate module Soils, Systems, and Society . Hannah Scherer and Martha Murphy are authors of the InTeGrate module A Growing Concern: Sustaining Soil Resources through Local Decision Making . Drawing from these two InTeGrate modules, the presenters will discuss how soils, soil health and soil sustainability provide unique opportunities for engaging students and developing their systems thinking. Examples from the modules show how local data can be used to elucidate abstract concepts and how systems thinking can be applied to real problems. The webinar will include 30 minutes of presentation and 25 minutes for discussion. Participants are encouraged to both ask questions of the presenters and discuss their own experiences of teaching about soils in the context of Earth systems. For more information on the series and to learn more about InTeGrate visit: http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/index.html Krista Herbstrith, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Science Education Resource Center—SERC, Carleton College Northfield, MN 55057 507-222-5634, fax 507-222-5175 kherb...@carleton.edu like us on Facebook Save the date for the 2016 Earth Educators' Rendezvous: July 18-22, 2016 in Madison, WI