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Fieldwork Bibliography part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/fieldwk.htm

The Geography Discipline Network
An annotated bibliography from the Geography Discipline Network (affiliated with GEES in the UK) on learning in the field. Readers are invited to suggest additions to the bibliography.

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Ways Of Learning:In the Field

part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Yael Kali
This article presents the software, A Virtual Journey within the Rock Cycle, which was developed as a microworld game meant to enhance students' ability to perceive the rock cycle in terms of a ...

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Geoscience Expertise:Complex Systems, Cognitive Domain

Software for Assisting High School Students in the Spatial Perception of Geological Structures part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Yael Kali, N. Orion
This paper investigates students' spatial perception of three-dimensional geological structures. Software was developed to assist students in developing the spatial skills needed for such perception. ...

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Geoscience Expertise:Structural Analysis , Ways Of Learning:Visual Learning, Spatial Intelligence

Development and Evaluation of Where are We?: Map-skills Software and Curriculum part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Kim Kastens, D. Kaplan, K. Christie-Blick
Improvements in the instructional materials used in the prototype version of the Where are We program were accomplished through formative evaluation. These improvements include replacement of ...

Research on Learning: Instructional Design, Ways Of Learning, Assessment:Classroom Methods, Spatial Intelligence:Maps, Cognitive Domain:Misconceptions/barriers to learning

An Interactive Multimedia Tool for Helping Students to Translate from Maps to Reality and Vice Versa part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Kim Kastens, D. VanEsselstyn, R. McClintock
This article outlines the rationale and implementation of the early phases of the Where are We? map utilization program. This program uses multimedia technology to help students understand how 2-D ...

Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:Visual Learning, Spatial Intelligence:3D, Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Spatial Intelligence:Maps, Spatial Intelligence

Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of GIS-based Learning Materials in an Introductory Geoscience Course part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Michelle Hall-Wallace, Carla M. McAuliffe
Classroom observations were used to implement course redesign so that students could complete activities with minimal instruction in GIS. Quantitative measures of student knowledge were determined ...

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Spatial Intelligence:Spatial Representations Of Data

Multisensory Immersion as a Modeling Environment for Learning Complex Scientific Concepts part of SERC Print Resource Collection
C. Dede, M. Salzman, B. Loftin, D. Sprague
This article explores the strengths and limits for learning of various types of VR (virtual reality) modeling. Previous research shows that such immersive, multisensory experiences enhance students' ...

Research on Learning: Geoscience Expertise:Complex Systems, Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Ways Of Learning

Spatial memory of real environments, virtual environments, and maps part of SERC Print Resource Collection
D. R. Montello, D. Waller, M. Hegarty, A. E. Richardson

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Teaching in the Field, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Spatial Intelligence:Maps

Geology in the Field (1985) part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Robert R. Compton
As the publisher states, this book "replaces Compton's Manual of Field Geology (1962)." This is a book for instructors, rather than for students. Compton discusses how to make and ...

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field

Regional geology as a unifying theme and a springboard to Deep Time part of SERC Print Resource Collection
M. G. Miller
Miller (2001) teaches Earth History within regional contexts in his course 'The Geology of National Parks'. He emphasizes the geological relations of the strata, principles like superposition, and ...

Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Constructivism, Geoscience Expertise:Geologic Time, Ways Of Learning:Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential

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