Cross-Cutting Themes

High-interest/Hot themes for educators (especially geoscience). Should be applied to all activities or other resources that address one of these themes in a significant way.

• Student Selected Problem 17:4 end

• Local Issue 17:5 end
  • Campus-Based 17:5 17:12 end

• Global/National Issue 17:3 end

• Real-Time Data 17:6 end

• Large Classroom 17:7 end

• Small Group 17:8 end

• Quantitative This term is intended for resources and pages that speak to improving students' quantitative literacy or skills. Ex: an activity designed to get a particular quantitative skill, an article about the use of particular pedagogies to teach quantitative literacy, books about education policies aimed at raising the quantitative abilities of students. 17:9 end
  • Quantitative Literacy Activities or resources focused on teaching students how to think quantitatively and interact with numbers effectively. 17:9 17:19 end
  • Quantitative Skills Activities and Resources which use quantitative skills and methods without overmuch emphasis on the fact that they are quantitative. eg: an activity that requires the use of quantitative methods but isn't aimed at teaching the quantitative method itself. 17:9 17:20 end

• Computer-Based 17:10 end

• GIS 17:11 end

• GeoHazards 17:13 end

• Visualization Visualization plays a central role in this activity 17:14 end

• Data, models, or simulations 17:15 end
  • Data 17:15 17:21 end
  • Models 17:15 17:22 end
  • Simulations 17:15 17:23 end

• Google Earth Tag resources that use Google Earth with this term so they'll show up on the examples page for Teaching with Google Earth. 17:16 end

• Process of Science 17:17 end

• Complex Systems 17:18 end

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