EnvLit - Working Groups

Environmental Literacy

Michigan State University

Carbon TIMECarbon Cycles
- 12-13 version ----Carbon TIME Units ----Professional Development Materials - 11-12 version - 10-11 version - 09-10 version >Tools for Reasoning
> Systems and Scale
> Plants
> Animals
> Decomposers
> Human Energy
> Carbon Cycling
- 08-09 version (old)
Water Cycle
Biodiversity&EvolutionCitizenship

Carbon cycle 11-12 DRK12-Carbon time

Teaching Materials

we developed three parts of Carbon Cycle Teaching Experiment:

1. MSP plant unit (2011-2012)

2. Carbon TIME teaching materials (2011-2012)

Development of these materials was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation: Targeted Partnership: Culturally relevant ecology, learning progressions and environmental literacy (NSF-0832173). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

News & Latest Papers

Dauer, J. M., Doherty, J. H., Freed, A. L., Anderson, C.W. Connections between student explanations and arguments from evidence about plant growth. Submitted to CBE: Life Sciences Education. (download Paper)

Parker, J., de los Santos, E., and Anderson, C.W. (2013). What learning progressions on carbon-transforming processes tell us about how students learn to use the laws of conservation of matter and energy. Educacion Quimica, 24(4), 399-406. (download Paper)

Dauer, J., Miller, H., & Anderson, C.W. (in press). Conservation of energy: An analytical tool for student accounts of carbon-transforming processes. In R. Chen, A. Eisenkraft, D. Fortus, J. Krajcik, K. Neumann & A. Scheff (Eds.), Teaching and Learning of Energy in K-12 Education. New York: Springer. (download Paper)

Dauer, J., Miller, H., Anderson, C.W. (2013) An inquiry learning progression for carbon-transforming processes. (download PPT, Paper)

Working Groups


Carbon	Biodiversity
Cycle	&Evolution


Water	Citizenship
Cycle

Research Partners

AAAS Project 2061

Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)

Northwestern University

University of California, Berkeley

University of Michigan