Resources for Integrating Mars Data Across the Undergraduate Curriculum
The wealth of recent data from Mars on everything from geophysics to climate change provides an opportunity to expand examples beyond the terrestrial realm in undergraduate courses ranging from hydrogeology to petrology, from structural geology to sedimentary geology. This site contains a variety of resources for faculty members who wish to integrate examples from Mars into commonly taught undergraduate courses. Such integration provides a unique and timely opportunity for students to test their observation and data analysis skills in a new planetary environment and to learn how study of other planets can help illuminate our understanding of the Earth.
Resources for teaching using discoveries from Mars
We have just begun to develop this resource collection in conjunction with the workshop mentioned above. We hope you will return often to this site during April and May, 2006, as this collection grows. Please help us! Contribute to the collections.
- Searchable collection of Internet resources.
- Searchable and browsable collection of activities and assignments that we are currently building. Check back often for new additions!
- A list of catalyst ideas to stimulate your thinking about how Mars discoveries could be integrated into a variety of undergraduate courses.
Join the listserv!
Join our listserv to take part in discussions with colleagues who are interested in teaching with a planetary perspective. The listserv began with the participants of the April 2006 Cutting Edge workshop on using Mars data to enhance undergraduate geoscience courses.
