Teaching Boxes and Resources

"Teaching Boxes" as described by DLESE (http://www.teachingboxes.org/) will be used to organize our case study materials and activities.

What is a Teaching Box? "Teaching boxes are classroom-ready instructional units created by collaboration between teachers, scientists, and designers. The box helps to bridge the gap between educational resources and how to implement them in the classroom. The Teaching Boxes contain materials that model scientific inquiry, allowing teachers to build classroom experiences around data collection and analysis from multiple lines of evidence, and engaging students in the process of science - focusing on gathering and analyzing scientific evidence." (http://www.teachingboxes.org/)

Teaching Boxes

• Energy Budget and Landscape Changes Resulting from Drought - Several teaching boxes dervied from the '06 Annual Workshop Case Study


• Introduction to GPS units, GIS and the internet, Google Earth and ArcGIS - Provided by Sylvio Mannel (Ogala Lakota College)


• Prairie Dog Case Study - Provided by Peg Tilgner (Sinte Gleska University)


• Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Chemistry - Provided by Audrey Lavallie (Turtle Mountain Community College)

Teaching Resources

For the purposes of this web page, "Teaching Resources" are different from our use of Teaching Boxes in that they are not intended to be complete, stand-along Problem-Based Learning (PBL) modules. They are intended to be resource materials for use by a teacher in developing PBL modules as needed. They may provide a source of additional material for an existing PBL module.

• Teacher Resources for a "Climate and Global Change" Course - Provided by Donald Perkey (USRA)