References

Visuospatial Reasoning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Four types of mental spaces are considered in this article, differentiated by the functions that they serve. The space of the body subserves proprioception and action; it is divided by body parts, ...

A new interactive class and lab for undergraduate non-geology majors on Earth, climate, and life through time part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Earth, Climate, and Life through Time is an Earth history course with a lab. Earth history is taught three times: first emphasizing the solid Earth and plate tectonics, again emphasizing the ...

Role Playing in Education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article by Dr. Adam Blatner discusses role-playing in education. Role playing, a derivative of a sociodrama, is a method for exploring the issues involved in complex social situations. It may be ...

The relevance of role playing in environmental education part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article published by the Commission on Biology Education summarizes a study of the relevance of role-playing in environmental education. The researchers created different role-plays and analyzed ...

Role-Playing Replaces Spreadsheets in College Accounting Courses part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This January 1997 Chronicle of Higher Education article discusses the use of role-playing in accounting classes. The article chronicles accounting students at University of Illinois while they tackle ...

Situated cognition and the culture of learning part of SERC Print Resource Collection
The authors challenge the common notion that what is learned and how it is learned and used are separate. The activity in which knowledge is developed and deployed is not separable from or ancillary ...

Bringing Research on Learning to the Geosciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This report summarizes discussions of how research on learning could be used to improve learning in the geosciences that were held in July 2002 at the Johnson Foudnation's Wingspread Conference ...

A typology of models for plate tectonics: Inferential power and barriers to understanding part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Abstract: Forty-seven fifth grade students (40 group-tested and 7 individually interviewed) read a text describing plate tectonics. At four points they drew diagrams of the spatial, causal, and ...

Learning-for-Use: A Framework for the Design of Technology-Supported Inquiry Activities part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article discusses a way to integrate the teaching of content with the teaching of process, which have in the past been seen as competing priorities. The author explores technology-supported ...

Effects of Student-Generated Diagrams versus Student-Generated Summaries on Conceptual Understanding of Causal and Dynamic Knowledge in Plate Tectonics part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This article examines the beneficial effects of student-generated diagrams versus student-generated summaries on conceptual understanding on the topic of plate tectonics. A group of fifth grade ...