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Teaching with Data, Simulations and Models
Today's geoscience education reaches beyond the traditional teaching tools such as rock samples and topographic maps. With the addition of computers in many geoscience classrooms and laboratories, faculty have unprecedented opportunity to create innovative learning experiences by bringing real-world data sets and models and simulations of geoscience processes into the classroom. This site provides resources to help faculty use these resources effectively and easily, and contains access to teaching materials and tips from the classroom and literature about the supporting pedagogy.
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Materials, References and Ideas for Bringing Data and Models into your Classroom
From this website
- A collection ofover 100 classroom, lab and field activities
- Data Sheets - Guides educators through selected data sets and provides ideas for how to use the data in the classroom. Over 50 data sets are covered.
- Tools for teaching with Data and Simulations - Instructions and tips for data viewers, mapping programs, interactive databases and visualization programs.
- Ideas for Teaching - These teaching ideas were the generated at the 2008 workshop on Teaching with New Geoscience Tools. The teaching ideas serve as a starting point for creating new approaches in teaching these topics.
- Sources for Teaching Materials - a directory of data sets, plus resources for teaching with models visualizations effectively.
- Pedagogic References - Information and background about pedagogical or practical issues in teaching with data sets, models or simulations.
- Materials presented at the 2008 workshop Teaching with New Geoscience Tools - See the workshop program, with links to PowerPoint presentations, plus the poster session.
From across the SERC sites
- Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations
- NSDL Using Data in the Classroom Portal
- Teaching with Models
- Earth Exploration Toolbook
- Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences
- Activities using Google Earth
From other websites
- CSDMS Educational repository (more info) : the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System educational portal has collections of models and animations illustrating Earth surface processes, lab exercises using Earth systems modeling, lectures on Earth surface modeling, images of the Earth's surface, and more.
Finding Data and Activities
- Using Data in the Classroom Portal Tools and Data Sources collection
- Using Data in the Classroom Portal Activities collection
- Contribute Tools, Data Sources, and Activities to the collections
Other Resources
- NSDL Using Data in the Classroom Portal
- Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations and the related visualizations with datasets, visualization collections and activities using visualizations
- 2002 Using Global Data Sets to Teach Earth Processes Workshop
- 2003 Using Global Data Sets to Teach Earth Processes GSA Session
- 2003 Using Global Data Sets to Teach Earth Processes GSA session examples and presentations
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- Join the discussion on the Teaching with Data Email List or view the list archives.
