Environmental Connections: Science, Technology, Society, and Education

跨学科（99）修订，实施和研究三个以环境为重点，教学创新的本科课程正在进行由一个团队的教师从部门在科学，工程和教育。这些课程-一个在生物学，一个在工程学，一个在地理学-是一个新的未成年人在科学和数学教育的一部分和中央CalTeach，加利福尼亚州的整个倡议大学招聘和更好地准备干本科生的职业生涯作为中学科学和数学教师。改造后的课程突出了四个核心主题：可持续性和环境;科学，技术，社会和教育之间的联系;科学中的循证论证;以及在K-12教育中有效的创新教学策略。这些课程的共同目的是塑造未来科学教师的科学思想和教学实践-帮助培养一批本科科学学生，他们将整体思维和批判性思维带入教师教育计划。

Interdisciplinary (99) Revision, implementation, and research of three environmentally-focused, pedagogically innovative undergraduate courses are being undertaken by a team of faculty from departments in the sciences, engineering, and education. These courses - one in biology, one in engineering, and one in geography - are part of a new Minor in Science and Mathematics Education and central to CalTeach, a University of California-wide initiative to recruit and better prepare STEM undergraduates for careers as secondary science and mathematics teachers. The transformed courses highlight four core themes: sustainability and the environment; connections across science, technology, society, and education; evidence-based argumentation in science; and innovative pedagogical strategies effective in K-12 schooling. The courses' collective purpose is to shape the scientific ideas and pedagogical practices of prospective science teachers - to help create a cadre of undergraduate science students who bring both holistic and critical thinking to their teacher education programs.