Welcome to MBER Living Earth!
Get ready to explore rich phenomena, build and revise models, and engage your students with an NGSS-aligned curriculum that integrates earth science into high school biology. You'll dive into units (we call model triangles) that deepen your students' understanding of evolution and the changing Earth, organismal biology, genetics, ecosystems and climate change.
We have designed this website to serve three main functions. First, it is a repository of the MBER-Living Earth curriculum that our team of teachers and science education researchers have created in alignment with earth science-integrated biology. It also includes a number of tools and pedagogical strategies to support you in creating a classroom where students are engaged in sensemaking (see MBER Essentials). Lastly, we intend this site to be a hub, a community space meant to enable interaction on forums among teachers using MBER-LE. We are deeply committed to respecting teachers as professionals and want to support you in creating an amazing science experience with your students.
Preview the curriculum using the buttons above to learn more and peruse the curricular map below. The Living Earth explores the four spheres of our unique planet--the geosphere (earth), hydrosphere (oceans), atmosphere (air), and biosphere (life). It explores their interactions over time in order to help students understand the dynamic history of life on our planet and how the relatively recent arrival of humans has forever transformed a system billions of years in the making. (For a more extensive overview of the image of the curriculum displayed below, please visit our page devoted to explaining this year-long coherent sequence of models.)
Dynamic, complex and a manifestation of cosmic history, our Earth is ever-evolving…
But how has life changed and changed this planet, making it like no other we know?
And as humans have evolved in the most recent, tiniest slice of time…
Could we be the primary force setting the future trajectory of this unique and amazing place?
