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Environmental and Geoscience Workshops and Lectures for Students and Faculty

Workshops to inspire and inform your classroom.

Featured Events

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Teaching Climate Change to Today's Students

Paul Bierman and David R. Montgomery in conversation with Brandon Keim

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Join Paul Bierman and David R. Montgomery in conversation with Brandon Keim for a discussion about empowering students in the classroom about climate change! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Paul, Dave, and Brandon. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.

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Utilizing Norton’s Geoscience resources to address course challenges

Hosted by Marlee Lisker and Emily Erickson

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Norton's textbooks for Geology, Earth Science, and Natural Disasters come with dynamic resource packages that are designed to foster a tactile, hands-on learning experience and help address common course challenges.

Join us on Friday April 19 at 11 a.m. Eastern to learn more about these tools, and how you can incorporate them into your course. During the workshop, we'll discuss: the new Norton Illumine Ebook (available with the Third Edition of Earth Science) and how it supports active reading and accountability, how to utilize tools like Smartwork and the Guided Learning Explorations and assign them for maximum impact, the functionality of our new 3D models of geologic specimens, and how these and other resources can be accessed through any Learning Management System, like Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn, and Canvas.

Sign up below to RSVP. If you're unable to attend live, you can also register below to receive a recording of the event!

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Digital resources to engage your intro environmental science students.

Hosted by Stacy Loyal and Emily Erickson

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During the workshop, our Norton science specialists will cover: how InQuizitive helps students learn the science they need to be informed citizens in a fun, engaging environment, using our What Would You Do? Activities during or after class to help students make decisions based on science, and how all of our resources can be accessed through your learning management system, including Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn and Canvas.

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Digital resources to support your Environmental Science classroom

Hosted by Stacy Loyal and Abby Kehoe

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The Second Edition of Environmental Science gives you more ways to engage your students in their ebook as well as activities outside your class to hold them accountable. In this session, we'll demo each of the three digital products that come at no extra cost with a new printed text or the ebook. We'll also cover integration with your campus LMS and your instructor resources.

The Norton Illumine Ebook engages and motivates students with Dynamic Data Figures and interactive Check Your Understanding questions. Students’ progress is tracked in your LMS as they work.

InQuizitive offers a range of questions aimed at helping students understand the science, and ensuring they understand the processes laid out in the text. Students get a personalized experience, will retain key concepts, and come to class prepared.

What Would You Do? These interactive web-based activities help students understand the impact of personal and policy decisions. Students role-play making choices and consider the environmental consequences of their decisions in a risk-free online environment.

Archived Events

"Teaching the food, soil, and climate connection, an author talk with David Montgomery"

David R. Montgomery, University of Washington, will discuss his research on the connection between soil health and human health as well as teaching the land, soil, and climate connection to non-majors students. Please come with questions, we will have a Q&A following his talk! David is the author of multiple award-winning nonfiction titles on soil and the environment. He recently published "What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health," in addition to the Second Edition of Environmental Science and Sustainability, a text for the non-majors environmental science course.

"Teaching the soil, food and climate connection" Hosted by David Montgomery

Author David Montgomery will discuss his research from writing "What Your Food Ate" as well as "Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life."

In addition, he'll offer ways to incorporate new environmental research like this into your classroom when teaching the soil, land, and climate connection.

"Can Nuclear Energy Solve the Climate Crisis?" Hosted by Richard Wolfson

Given that fossil-fueled electricity generation accounts for about one-third of planet-warming global carbon emissions, might we help alleviate the climate crisis by getting more of our electricity from nuclear?

W. W. Norton author Richard Wolfson explores this question with a look at nuclear technology, its safety and its environmental impacts, its connection with nuclear weapons, and the prospect of building sufficient nuclear capacity to provide a significant drop in carbon emissions.

Richard is the author of the textbook, Energy, Environment, and Climate from W. W. Norton, and Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-first Century: A Citizen’s Guide published in 2021 by MIT Press.

"Environmental Justice in the U.S.: How Policy Can Help Shape a Better Future" Hosted by Daniel J. Sherman

This student lecture from author Daniel Sherman will explore environmental justice concerns in the U.S. related to land ownership and use, pollution, environmental health and access to environmental amenities like parks and greenspaces.

We will consider the development of the environmental justice movement and ways in which environmental disparities are rooted in policies of the past and present. Finally, we’ll explore ways in which new policies can incorporate environmental justice concerns into government decision-making.

"Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future" Hosted by Bartow J. Elmore

W. W. Norton is pleased to offer a special virtual lecture and Q & A with award-winning scholar and teacher Bartow J. Elmore. His new book, Seed Money, is an authoritative history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds. In this 30-minute virtual lecture, Elmore will talk about the GMO revolution in food and what we can now say about it twenty-five years later.

"Environmental Justice in the U.S.: How Policy Can Help Shape a Better Future" Hosted by Daniel J. Sherman

This student lecture from author Daniel Sherman will explore environmental justice concerns in the U.S. related to land ownership and use, pollution, environmental health and access to environmental amenities like parks and greenspaces.

We will consider the development of the environmental justice movement and ways in which environmental disparities are rooted in policies of the past and present. Finally, we’ll explore ways in which new policies can incorporate environmental justice concerns into government decision-making.

"Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future" Hosted by Bartow J. Elmore

W. W. Norton is pleased to offer a special virtual lecture and Q & A with award-winning scholar and teacher Bartow J. Elmore. His new book, Seed Money, is an authoritative history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds. In this 30-minute virtual lecture, Elmore will talk about the GMO revolution in food and what we can now say about it twenty-five years later.

"Growing a Revolution" Hosted by David R. Montgomery, October 2020

Norton author David R. Montgomery discusses his journey of traveling the world to meet farmers at the forefront of an agricultural movement to restore soil health. From Kansas to Ghana, he explains why adopting the three tenets of conservation agriculture—ditching the plow, planting cover crops, and growing a diversity of crops—is the solution.

"Environmental Policy, Impacts, and You" Hosted by Daniel J. Sherman, October 2020

Daniel J. Sherman, Director of the Sound Policy Institute, will illustrate the ways that environmental policies shape our individual and collective environmental impacts. He'll then reflect on the ways that individual actions can, in turn, influence the adoption of future environmental policies. This webinar is intended for students of environmental science.

"Get the most out of your online resources with Norton Geology" Hosted by Marlee Lisker and Abigail Kehoe

Norton's textbooks for Geology, Earth Science, and Natural Disasters come with dynamic resource packages that are designed to foster a tactile, hands-on learning experience and students engage more deeply with the material. Join us on Wednesday, December 14 at 2pm Eastern to learn more about these tools, and how you can incorporate them into your course. During the workshop, we'll discuss: • how to utilize tools like Smartwork and the Guided Learning Explorations and assign them for maximum impact • the unique features of our ebooks, including interactive components such as note-sharing with your students • the functionality of our new 3D models of geologic specimens • how these and other resources can be accessed through any Learning Management System, like Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn, and Canvas. Sign up below to RSVP. If you're unable to attend live, you can also register below to receive a recording of the event!

"Engaging students after class: environmental science and sustainability" Hosted by Stacy Loyal and Ariel Eaton

With Norton's resources, all included with the ebook at no cost, students are held accountable for their reading and can engage in fun, low-stakes assessment.

The Norton Illumine Ebook, InQuizitive, and our What Would You Do? Activities work together to create a dynamic experience for students outside the classroom while holding them accountable for their reading.

In this workshop, we will demo all of these resources, and give you a chance to review them.

"Integrating environmental justice into your classroom" Hosted by Daniel Sherman

In the new Second Edition of Environmental Science and Sustainability, a new theme examines the role of environmental justice in past, present, and future environmental decision-making.

Author Daniel Sherman will discuss how to integrate environmental justice into your intro environmental science class and help your students think about its importance to the issues that affect them today.

"Online Assessment Activities for Environmental Science" Hosted by Stacy Loyal and Heidi Shadix, February 2021

Join us for a webinar on Norton's personal quizzing platform, InQuizitive. We'll show you how easy it is to setup a course that will motivate and engage your students outside of class. In addition to learning the science they'll need in InQuizitive, students will also have access to our What Would You Do? Decision-Making Activities, where they get to make decisions about environmental policy in a risk-free online environment.

"Transitioning to Teaching Geosciences" Hosted by Rob Bellinger, March 2020

We are hosting a webinar with Rob Bellinger, our geoscience media editor, on how best to implement existing Norton resources in an online class.

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