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Environmental Science: Open Education Resources

Find articles, books, data, and other resources for environmental and sustainability projects

Finding OERs by Discipline

Environmental Science

Open Textbooks

Bookboon.com - Environmental Science - free eBooks and textbooks that can be downloaded as a pdf, no registration needed.

InTech - Environmental Sciences - open access books from IntechOpen

MERLOT Materials – Environment and Natural Resources - a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services

MERLOT Open Access Textbooks - Environment

The National Academies Press (NAP) - textbooks on various environmental studies topics, available as freely downloadable PDFs.

OAPEN - Environmentalist Thought & Ideology - a collection of open access publications and a publishing platform

OER Commons Textbooks – Environmental Science

Open Book Publishers- Environmental Studies - open access UK book publishing imprint

Pressbooks OER - Environmental Studies - from BCcampus

Wikibooks - Applied Ecology - an open content textbook from Wikibooks

Wikibooks - Ecology - an open content textbook from Wikibooks

Open Courseware

Climate Toolkit - A Resource Manual for Science and Action (Granshaw)

Earth in the Future – Penn State Earth 103N

Environmental, Earth, and Ocean Sciences (UMass Boston OpenCourseWare) - UMass courseware online for educators to use.
These materials can be freely downloaded, shared, and altered – with attribution

ENVS 100 – Survey of Environmental Science - survey course on the science behind historical and current environmental issues
from Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Introduction to Environmental Sciences at UMASS Boston

MERLOT Resources – Environmental Science - a curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services

MIT Open Courseware - Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences - courses, materials & teaching resources

MIT Open Courseware - Urban Studies and Planning

Open Learn - Environmental Studies - Open Learn provides 52 free online courses on environmental topics

Open Oregon Educational Resources - Environmental Science course materials from Oregon community colleges and universities

Open Yale - Environmental Politics & Lawcourse (John Wargo)

Penn State - OER Course Modules (Penn State, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences)

General Environmental Science-related OER

Appropedia – a wiki site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development

OAOpen – resources for environmental science, engineering & technology

OER Commons – curated collection for Environmental Science

OER Commons -curated collection for Climate Education

Open learn: nature & environment resources

Lab manuals, Interactive materials & simulations
*many of the simulations and videos are view/use only (i.e. not adaptable)

ClimateSim - This visualization of a gravity model was created with data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)

Environmental Injustice: Evaluating the evidence – activity where students are introduced to the empirical, quantitative
research purporting to demonstrate that environmental hazards are disproportionately sited in minority and low-income neighborhoods.

Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet - NASA site on climate change and includes current data and visualizations

Marine Debris Tracker (Android) - " mobile application and tool that allows you to help make a difference by telling us when you find trash on our coastlines and waterways.”

SeaPhoto (iOS)- "This application provides access to over 1,650 high quality images of over 631 species of marine life
of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, including over 130 species with detailed ecological information”