Upgrading the “Dynamic Planet” Gold Seal Pressbook to Meet All GLG11O MCCCD Course Competencies

Carolina Michel; Katherine Megivern

Upgrading the “Dynamic Planet” Gold Seal Pressbook to Meet All GLG11O MCCCD Course Competencies

Carolina Michel and Katherine Megivern

Executive Summary

Our project, “Upgrading the “Dynamic Planet” Gold Seal Pressbook to Meet All GLG110O MCCCD Course Competencies” sought to develop information on soil and water resources. Targeting key concepts aligned with the competencies, Katherine wrote Chapter 13 Soils and Chapter 14 Water Resources and Water Pollution as planned, and Carolina designed 10+ multimedia/H5P activities. The MCCCD official course competencies that this project addressed are: “Assess and describe the impact of human behavior on selected environmental phenomena such as water resources, climate change, severe weather, and soils.”

These new chapters are aligned and consistent with the previous chapters. We referenced a number of places in or near Arizona to increase engagement and student outcomes. Our chapters highlight Indigenous cultures in keeping with this important practice begun in previous chapters. Together, these inclusions further Dynamic Planet’s contributions to place-based knowledge of Arizona.

These chapters apply to classes in the fields of physical geography, sustainability, agricultural science, biology, and environmental science, including our upcoming ENV230.
Both chapters deliver information in all sections that we proposed.

Aligned with the Release principle of the CARE Framework, our project, under the Instructor Resources sections of our Attributions and References of each chapter, includes a PDF with all the information of the chapter. Users may download the PDF and copy it into their websites or LMS.