Week 16: The Final Week
Week 16 is the last week of the course. In the previous weeks, you have created sphere lessons for land, living things, air, and water from an Earth system science perspective. Now you need to weave these lessons into a unit plan so that students who have a background in each sphere can apply what they have learned to a greater understanding of Earth's interacting systems.

Assignment

Individual: (by midnight Sunday)
  • Read about school improvement and reflect on how these approaches support it.
  • Review the Final Project Goal and Rubric for ideas on how to unify your four sphere lessons into an Earth System Science unit.
  • Develop your unit and ask for feedback from your classmates if you wish.
  • Complete the Post-Course Survey in the Portfolio in the Classroom .

Submit your Final Project to the Portfolio in the Classroom for a grade.

Reading

  • Pathways to School Improvement This North Central Regional Educational Laboratory site provides a listing of critical issues in instruction, assessment, and technology. Assessment reading is drawn from this site.
Final Project Assignment & Rubric. The purpose of the final project is for you to design an Earth system science unit plan, and to provide a rationale for why you designed your unit plan the way you did. To develop this unit plan, unify the four sphere lessons you have created on land, living things, air, and water so that students who have a background in each sphere can apply what they have learned, resulting in a greater understanding of Earth's interacting systems.

Complete the Post-Course Survey and submit it. The course designers would like to know what you thought about the course. How do you like learning in a collaborative, online environment and teaching Earth system science? Your responses to the Post-Course Survey will tell the course designers how your attitudes and knowledge have changed as a result of taking the course. They'll use the suggestions you send to improve the course and to let the folks at NASA Headquarters know what you thought of the course.

Please email bmyers@cet.edu with your comments and suggestions about the survey.

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