Design Guide for Earth System Science Education: A Web-Based Resource for Teaching Earth System Science

The Design Guide for Earth System Science Education (ESSE) is a web-based resource for faculty from multiple disciplines who wish to develop Earth System Science courses or programs in their own institutional settings. This guide represents the lessons learned from 15 years of NASA-supported Earth system science education programs at 57 universities and colleges throughout the United States. The ESSE Design Guide provides a comprehensive synthesis of the experience of faculty who have taught ESS courses at universities in the United States beginning in the early 1990s as part of the ESS program funded by NASA. If you consider each of the ESS courses that have been developed and taught as `experiments' both in pedagogy and institutional organization, then the design guide represents an analysis of the experiments and provides a summary of the main results. The design guide covers a range of topics including teaching, learning and evaluation, institutional change, community building, pathways to STEM education, and diversity. Information is also provided via key points, cross-cutting themes, frequently asked questions, and short stories from the field.