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A Model for the Development and Implementation of Field Trips as an Integral Part of the Science Curriculum part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Nir Orion
In this paper, Orion summarizes what we know from the literature about designing effective field trips for high school students, including the challenges and barriers to success. The model he ...

Subject: Education, Geoscience
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Learning oceanography from a computer simulation compared with direct experience at sea part of SERC Print Resource Collection
W. Winn, F. Stahr, C. Sarason, R. Fruuland, P. Oppenheimer, and Y.-L. Lee
A one day field trip on a research vessel in Puget Sound helped undergraduate students understand the context of an oceanographic lesson, and improved the conceptual understanding of students who ...

Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Use of Technology, Ways Of Learning:Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential, Cognitive Domain:How information is organized:Mental models

Fieldwork is Good? The Student Experience of Field Courses part of SERC Web Resource Collection

The Higher Education Academy
This site describes the results of a research project that was conducted across geography, earth science and environmental science disciplines to examine the effect of fieldwork on students' ...
Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Affective Domain

Fieldwork within the Context of Higher Education: a Literature Review part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Marjorie Bonello
Fieldwork education is an integral part of the education of occupational therapy students and is instrumental in developing professional behavior. This paper presents critical review of an ...

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Factors That Influence Learning during a Scientific Field Trip in a Natural Environment part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Nir Orion, Avi Hofstein
Reports on the findings of a study designed to investigate factors that influence the educational effectiveness of field trips for students. The objective was to identify factors that influence a ...

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Scaffolding, Affective Domain:Learning Environments

Students, fieldwork, space and time part of SERC Print Resource Collection
C. King
This paper suggests how to get students to build up an overall perspective of the different rock sequences they see during a field excursion. It outlines a five-prong approach aimed at understanding ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Stratigraphy, Education
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Constructivism, Teaching in the Field, Geoscience Expertise:Geologic Time, Spatial Intelligence:Maps, Spatial Representations Of Data , Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Connecting Urban Students with their Rivers Generates Interest and Skills in the Geosciences part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Suzanne O’Connell, Joseph Ortiz, Janet Morrison
Abstract - Two different enrichment programs for urban high school students from the Greater Hartford Area of Connecticut were conducted during the summer of 2002. They were designed to expose ...

Subject: Education, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Incorporating Research Experiences, Geoscience Expertise, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Affective Domain:Learning Environments

Designing Undergraduate Research Experiences for Nontraditional Student Learning at Sea part of SERC Print Resource Collection
James E. Gawel, Cheryl L. Greengrove
This article from the Journal of Geosceince Education summarizes two oceanography courses that involved students in ongoing research projects. By comparing these two course designs, the authors have ...

Subject: Biology:Evolution, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Adult Learners, Instructional Design:Incorporating Research Experiences, Teaching in the Field, Ways Of Learning:Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential, Affective Domain:Learning Environments

Developing successful learning strategies in structural geology part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Pascal P. De Caprariis
In order to learn from field projects such as structure mapping, students need the conceptual tools (especially the mathematical background) to understand what they are seeing in the field. This ...

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

The use of information technology to enhance learning in geological field trips part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Jonny Hesthammer, Haakon Fossen, MIchael Sautter, Bjorn Saether, Stale Emil Johansen
Students prepared for a field trip using a field simulator, which provided them with a variety of 3-D visualizations of the area and incorporated different kinds of geologic information (including ...

Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Ways Of Learning:Visual Learning


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