Developing Active Learning Modules on the Human Dimensions of Global Change

9455632汉森该项目1）积极参与教师，全球变化学者，并在教学专业知识的介绍级，基于活动的全球环境变化的人类层面的课程模块的发展，和2）建立一个过程中的美国地理学家协会（AAG）的发展，评估，并传播这些和其他主动学习的入门课程单元。第一个目标是满足以下需要：a）将最近的全球变化奖学金注入本科生入门课程; B）积极让学生参与学习过程。第二个目标是解决目前缺乏任何正式的机制，在地理学科的本科教师之间的教学和学习资源的共享。 主要的预期成果是涉及全球环境变化的三大组成部分的模块：（1）变化的人为和物质原因或驱动力;（2）这些力量产生的环境后果;（3）人类对这些环境后果的反应。这些模块的核心是以下概念：a）人为原因、环境影响和人类反应如何因地点（地理区域）而异，以及B）各组成部分之间的关系如何受到分析的空间和时间尺度（地方、区域、全球;分别为十年、百年、千年）的影响。 该项目还在农业咨询组内建立了一个信息交流中心，以便在全国范围内传播用于入门课程的模块。这些单元将提供给每年参加地理入门课程的约500 000名学生的所有教员。一旦该项目完成，AAG信息中心将继续开发和传播基于活动的本科生学习材料。

9455632 Hanson The project 1) actively involves faculty, global change scholars, and people with expertise in pedagogy in the development of introductory-level, activity-based course modules on the human dimensions of global environmental change, and 2) establishes a process within the Association of American Geographers (AAG) for the development, evaluation, and dissemination of these and other active-learning modules of introductory courses. The first goal addresses the needs to a) infuse recent global change scholarship into the introductory undergraduate curriculum and b) actively involve students in the learning process. The second goal seeks to address the current absence of any formal mechanism within the discipline of geography for the sharing of teaching and learning resources among undergraduate instructors. The principal expected outcomes are modules that speak to the three broad components of global environmental change: 1) the human and physical causes or driving forces of change; 2) the environmental consequences produced by these forces; and 3) the human responses to these environmental consequences. Central to these modules are the concepts of a) how human causes, environmental impacts, and human response vary by location (geographic area), and b) how the relationships among components are affected by the spatial and temporal scales of analysis (local, regional, global; decadal, centennial, millennial respectively). The project also establishes a clearinghouse within the AAG to disseminate the modules for use in introductory courses nationwide. The modules will be available to all instructors of some 500,000 students who are enrolled in introductory geography courses annually. Once this project is completed, the AAG clearinghouse will continue to develop and disseminate activity-based undergraduate learning materials.