eERL Teacher's Guide
Ideas for
Classroom Implementation
My suggestions for the in-class use of eERL are as follows:
As a research tool for research papers.
As a research tool for projects in which they need information in the decision-making process (e.g. if we pose a scenario regarding a certain type of contamination, they must obtain information to determine how to clean it up).
To obtain information for in-class presentations on a particular technology or environmental topic.
To obtain site-specific information in the completion of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, by searching various databases. Using in class to incorporate real-time data from various websites.
Jeff Bates
Environmental Technology
Columbus State Community College
550 East Spring Street
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 287-3652
jbates@cscc.edu
Teachers research facts so students can get the background they need for the upcoming United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
Find learning activities about sustainability to incorporate into multiple disciplines at colleges that have a commitment to sustainability (e.g. over 300 college presidents who have signed the Tailloire Declaration)
Teachers could assign topics to students and have them use eERL as a resource.
Posting of new curricular information on eERL as well as reviews of how to use it most effectively as teachers adopt the curricula.
Debra Rowe
Interim Dean of Technology,
Professor Alternate Energies Technologies and Behavioral Science,
Oakland Community College
Senior Fellow,
University Leaders for a Sustainable Future
dgrowe@oaklandcc.edu
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