The Environmental Science (ENSC) core courses (ENVR 200, 300, 400) culminate in a two-term community-based team project in which students collaborate, design, and undertake an authentic research project. We propose a new video-prompted activity for ENVR 200 to present locally relevant and persistent case studies in environmental science (climate change and food production) including candid community perspectives presented in context to highlight the complexity of the issue.

By developing introductory online lessons for GIS in parallel with new course-specific GIS-based lab exercises, this project will ensure that all students in EOAS are given a level foundation in GIS skills in the context of applied earth science.

Interactive learning activities, materials and corresponding infrastructure will be developed to engage students in learning experiences related to multi-disciplinary geoscience problems and phenomena. Students will be able to create, review, explore and analyze virtual geo-referenced field sites, field specimens or materials and allied information.

The SCI-LEnS project aims to develop a new graduate course that will build an informal learning space paradigm at UBC. In collaboration with museum professionals, students will explore best practices and pedagogical approaches for creating effective public-facing content in science museums, with the key project goal of shifting the lens through which scientists engage with public audiences.

In 2017, UBC’s departments of EOAS and Geography embarked on an ambitious partnership with the University of Central Asia (UCA) to design, develop and transfer a 22-course curriculum making up UCA’s new undergraduate B.Sc. program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) focusing on issues of importance to mountain societies.

In 2014, UBC’s Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences and Physics and Astronomy departments received generous funding from the Harris family to pilot paired teaching as a follow-up to the CWSEI (see above). During the project, 27 instructors across these two departments taught 18 courses to over 2,500 students in the pilot program, and research was disseminated through several scholarly publications.

In 2007, EOAS became the first department in UBC’s Faculty of science to be approved for the 7 year Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI). The aim was to increase the effectiveness of post-secondary science education for all undergraduate students taking courses offered by our Department.

The EaSEIL project aims to create space for collaborative reflection among students, instructors, staff, and community members to reimagine, develop, and transform field-based experiential learning across multiple programs, departments and Faculties at UBC.

This project aims to engage and partner with Indigenous undergraduate and graduate students in UBC Science to learn more about their experiences, needs, and desires with respect to curriculum, pedagogy, research, educational programming, and advising.

This project aims to support Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP) efforts across UBC Science (and beyond) by developing an assessment toolkit that can be used by instructors or units to determine whether students are reporting a greater understanding of how Indigenous topics intersect with their field of study in Science.