Theme: Implementing InTeGrate
The programming listed below seeks to address the topic of Implementing InTeGrate.
- Course Resources
- Curriculum Design
- Developing Geocompetencies
- Geoscience Education Research
- Implementing InTeGrate
- Online Education
- Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty
- Program Design
- Recruiting, Retention, Diversity
- Research for Undergrads
- Student Learning
- Teacher Preparation, Professional Development and Policy Issues
Adapting InTeGrate Modules to Online Courses
ORAL SESSION
Monday
2:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Tara Holmberg, Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Using InTeGrate modules in multiple onground and hybrid courses since Spring 2016, gains in student achievement in objectives related to soils, agriculture, mining, climate change, among others have been ...
Utilizing InTeGrate's "Systems Thinking" across multiple student audiences
ORAL SESSION
Monday
2:15pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Jessica Martin, University of Providence
Thinking about the natural world in terms of functional systems is a key approach across the physical and biological sciences. At the University of Providence, a small private Catholic university in central ...
Aligning active learning teaching with active learning assessment: More accurate measures of student learning and mitigating the achievement gap
ORAL SESSION
Monday
3:00pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Hannah Aird, California State University-Chico
Rachel Teasdale, California State University-Chico
The degree to which student learning experiences and course assessments are both activity-based has a big impact on student performance in introductory geoscience courses newly revised at California State ...
Supporting Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Earth for a Sustainable Future through the InTeGrate Project
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
Monica Bruckner, Carleton College
Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
John McDaris, Carleton College
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College
InTeGrate supports teaching about Earth in the context of sustainability across the curriculum through curricula development and strengthening programs to increase undergraduate students' Earth literacy and ...
Data-rich societally-situated undergraduate teaching resources and instructor professional development for geoscience classrooms and field courses
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope Consortium
Donna Charlevoix, EarthScope Consortium
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington
Ben Crosby, Idaho State University
Meghan Miller, UNAVCO
The NSF-funded GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) project is developing teaching resources and instructor professional development opportunities that emphasize a broad range of geodetic methods and data ...
Measuring the Reach and Influence of InTeGrate Materials on Faculty Teaching Practices
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
Kristin O'Connell, Carleton College
Ellen Iverson, Carleton College
Kathryn Sheriff, Mercer University
InTeGrate, Interdisciplinary Teaching about Earth for a Sustainable Future, aims to dramatically increase Earth literacy for undergraduate students to better prepare them to address complex societal challenges. To ...
Supporting a Sustainable Future through Geoscience Integration in Non-Geoscience Courses
POSTER SESSION
Wednesday
4:30pm-5:45pm
Beren Auditorium
Michelle Fisher, Three Rivers Community College
Tara Holmberg, Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Jennifer Hanselman, Westfield State University
Deborah Rook, University of Wisconsin-Madison
InTeGrate and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) project partnered to support the adaptation of InTeGrate modules across multiple disciplines. The QUBES project partnered with ...
Introduction to Course Design Using InTeGrate Materials
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8:30am-11:30am
Lindley: 307
Tara Holmberg, Northwestern Connecticut Community College
Participants will explore InTeGrate Modules as they develop or redesign their course, using principles of backward design and best practices. Educators will work together to develop their materials and leave with a ...
Advancing the Perception and Adoption of Geosciences in a New Era
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30pm-4:00pm
Lindley: 123
Felicia Davis, HBCU Green Fund Inc.
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
This "shopwork" is designed to generate creative thinking and innovative strategies for increasing exposure to Geoscience opportunities. A rebuilding of the public appreciation for Geoscience is possible ...
Absorption and Reflection of Solar Energy
TEACHING DEMONSTRATION
Friday
1:30pm-1:50pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Peggy McNeal, Towson University
As part of an overall lesson on Earth's energy budget, the objective of this inquiry activity is for students to describe how surface material type and color affect absorption and reflection of solar energy. ...
Beyond Sustainability: The Anthropocene as a paradigm for thinking about the Earth Across Disciplines
Friday
2:30pm-2:50pm
Ritchie Hall: 366
Gary Gomby, Central Connecticut State University
The Anthropocene has been defined as the period during which humans have become a global geophysical force. The concept of the Anthropocene can be expanded beyond this "narrow" definition to a more ...
Working with and across networks to support institutional change.
POSTER SESSION
Friday
3:00pm-4:00pm
Beren Auditorium
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College
John McDaris, Carleton College
An advantage of multi-institutional networks of people working towards common goals is being able to draw from experiences across the networks and to share experience and successful practices from a variety of ...