Cinzia Cervato

Carbon Footprint Exercise part of Climate Change:Activities
We designed a three-step assignment for students in introductory geoscience that asks them to calculate their carbon footprint during one specific week. The goal of the assignment is to increase student awareness ...

Groundwater wells part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
We created a field of 8 wells that tap into the unconfined aquifer close to campus. Four of the wells are open for students to collect samples and take measurements. The remaining four wells have instruments that ...

Student Assessment and Departmental Reviews, ISU part of Building Strong Departments:Workshops:Assessing Geoscience Programs:Participant Essays
Cinzia Cervato, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University Student Assessment In 2004 Iowa State University requested that all departments prepare an outcomes assessment plan. The ...

Cinzia Cervato part of Affective Domain:Workshop 07:Workshop Participants
Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University What are the key issues related to the role of the affective domain in teaching geoscience that you would like to engage at the workshop? Quantitative ...

Testing the implementation and impact of a gamification plugin for Canvas LMS in an introductory physical geology course part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday:Poster Session IV
This poster illustrates the results of the implementation of a personalized gamified dashboard integrated into the Learning Management System (LMS) of a large-enrollment introductory physical geology course. While ...

Research on Students' Conceptual Understanding of Environmental, Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Climate Science Content part of NAGT:Our Work:Geoscience Education Research:Community Framework for GER:Conceptual Understanding - Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate
Download a pdf of this chapterCinzia Cervato, Iowa State University; Donna Charlevoix, UNAVCO; Anne Gold, University of Colorado at Boulder; and Hari Kandel, Lake Superior State University Introduction At the ...