What's Going On?

Workshops

None scheduled at this time.

Meetings

None scheduled at this time.

Projects

The Math You Need, When You Need It
This new website covers quantitative topics that are important in introductory geoscience courses. Each topic includes a page for the instructor, quantitative information for the students, a set of practice problems and culminates in an on-line quiz that is automatically graded and submitted to the instructor.

National Computational Science Institute (NCSI)
NCSI offers a national set of in-person, video-conferenced, and web-accessible workshops, seminars, and support activities that aim to permeate on-going and proposed undergraduate curriculum efforts with computational science content. These opportunities provide professional development for faculty and help make computational science a priority for professional and disciplinary societies.

Carleton College: Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (Quirk) Initiative
Quirk is an innovative project intended to help Carleton and other institutions of higher education better prepare students to evaluate and use quantitative evidence in their future roles as citizens, consumers, professionals, business people, and government leaders.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum is a three-year project to develop and test educational spreadsheet modules that enhance quantitative literacy wherever quantitative problems arise in the undergraduate curriculum.

Past Events

American Geophysical Union 2007 Fall Meeting

American Geophysical Union 2006 Fall Meeting
Session ED14 - Teaching the Quantitative Aspects of Geoscience

Infusing Quantitative Literacy into Introductory Geoscience Courses
June 26-28, 2006
Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Cathy Manduca, Eric Baer, Jen Wenner conveners

Improving the Quantitative Training of Earth Science Graduate Students: February 21-22, 2006. Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
This two-day meeting brought together faculty and graduate students to discuss the quantitative preparation of geoscience graduate students. Participants included faculty supervising graduate students in quantitative areas spanning the earth, atmosphere, and ocean sciences; current graduate students in these areas; and faculty teaching undergraduate students in the spectrum of institutions preparing students for graduate work.

Developing Quantitative Activities for Upper Division Geoscience Students: June 27-29, 2005. Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
This workshop brought together 2 groups of faculty who teach surface processes or climate and global change in upper division college courses. The groups worked side-by-side to refine activities and materials for publication on the website.

Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Geoscience Context: July 15 - 17, 2004. Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
This workshop brought together a small group of faculty to create resources for teaching quantitative skills in the geosciences that can be broadly disseminated via the web.

Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Geoscience Context: July 24 - 27, 2002. Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
The goals of this workshop were to bring together mathematicians and geoscientists to examine their complementary approaches to teaching quantitative skills and to develop materials that advance the teaching of mathematics in a geologic context throughout the curriculum.

Building the Quantitative Skills of Non-Majors and Majors in Earth and Planetary Science Courses : January 22 - 24, 1999. College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
This workshop explored the issue of quantitative skills in geoscience curricula in terms of the varying needs and perspectives of a variety of institutions.

Macdonald, Srogi and Stracher, 2000 (Eds.) : This issue of the Journal of Geoscience Education was devoted to Building the Quantitative Skills of Students in Geoscience Courses.

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