Theme: Developing Geocompetencies
The programming listed below seeks to address the topic of Developing Geocompetencies.
- Community Engagement
- 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
Teaching Introductory Geoscience with Data and Math in a Societal Context Using GETSI Modules
WORKSHOP
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
Jessica Smay, San Jose City College
Rachel Teasdale, California State University-Chico
Integrating cutting edge data and quantitative skills into introductory courses can be challenging. The GEodesy Tools for Societal Issues (GETSI) project has developed a suite of undergraduate teaching modules to ...
Integrated Environmental Systems at TSU Farm
WORKSHOP
William Sutton, Tennessee State University
Tom Byl, US Geological Survey
Steven Goodbred, Vanderbilt University
This workshop presents educators at all levels with activities and lessons to help incorporate nature into their classes. The TSU campus farm and wetlands provide important ecosystem services and avail magnificent ...
Heads and Chairs: Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
WORKSHOP
Sharon Mosher, The University of Texas at Austin
Jeffrey Ryan, University of South Florida
Ginny Peterson, Grand Valley State University
Sara Harris, University of British Columbia
This workshop is intended to help department heads, chairs, and undergraduate program directors with addressing challenges in their curricula and/or degree programs aimed at better preparing their students for ...
How to Create your Own Open Educational Resources: Examples from Analytical Methods in Geosciences (AMiGEO)
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Elizabeth Johnson, James Madison University
Juhong Liu, James Madison University
This workshop is for anyone interested in learning how to develop and publish open educational resources. Analytical Methods in Geosciences (AMiGEO) is an NSF-funded project to develop undergraduate-level, online, ...
Teaching & Perpetuating Earth Stewardship Education
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Earth Stewardship - our deliberate and continuous effort to fulfill our sacred obligations and duties to the realm that makes Life itself possible - Mother Earth. The teaching of Earth Stewardship is needed now ...
School of Ice: A Model for Advanced Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions with Applications to Other 2 and 4 Year Colleges
ORAL SESSION
Louise Huffman, Dartmouth College
The School of Ice (SOI) program from the US Ice Drilling Program (IDP) is designed for college faculty who teach at minority-serving institutions or historically black colleges and universities, but lessons learned ...
Enhancing Weather, Ocean, and Climate Science Literacy by Leveraging the American Meteorological Society-Cal U DataStreme Partnership
ORAL SESSION
Chad Kauffman, Pennsylvania Western University - California
Wendy Abshire, American Meteorological Society
Liz Baugher, American Meteorological Society
Abigail Stimach, American Meteorological Society
Elizabeth Mills, American Meteorological Society
Elizabeth Day-Miller, BridgeWater Education Consulting
For more than 25 years, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Education Program has been enhancing K-12 Geoscience teacher preparation and practice, and ultimately student learning through the DataStreme ...
Near to Us or Seemingly Far from You: South Padre Island as an Important Global Setting
SHARE-A-THON
Tuesday
1:30pm-2:40pm
Wendi J. W. Williams, South Texas College
Ahyde Martinez, Texas A & M University
Alexia Frayre, South Texas College
Our curriculum team of community college students and myself will share activities developed to bring a better understanding of "sense of place" related to South Padre Island geo-ecosystems. One of the ...
Data Labs: Using Ocean Observatory Initiative (OOI) Data to Engage Students in Oceanography
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Janice McDonnell, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Sage Lichtenwalner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Christine Bean, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Catherine Halversen, University of California-Berkeley
Show additional peer leaders Hide Additional peer leaders/collaborators on this project include: Dr. Dax Soule, Queens College Dr. Anna Pfeiffer- Herbert, Stockton University Dr. Brooke Love, Western Washington ...
Mineralogy Field Trip to the TN-NC Blue Ridge Mountains
SHARE-A-THON
Tuesday
1:30pm-2:40pm
Kent Ratajeski, University of Kentucky
The topics of Earth history and mineral resources form the two main themes for this three-day field trip to the Blue Ridge geologic province of southeastern TN and southwestern NC. The route includes stops at the ...
Designing and Implementing a Multi-institution Field Program for 2YC and 4YC Students
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Tennessee State University
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
Interested in offering extended field experiences for your introductory-level students? Is your institution interested in adding a greater diversity of field projects to its existing geology field camp? This ...
Developing Spatial Thinking Skills
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Tennessee State University
Reginald Archer, Tennessee State University
Solomon Haile, Tennessee State University
Mark Abolins, Middle Tennessee State University
Clement Akumu, Tennessee State University
This roundtable will explore ways to improve teaching and learning spatial thinking skills. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences and discuss innovative ways to incorporate spatial thinking in the ...
Teaching Geoscience in Laboratory Settings
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Tuesday
3:00pm-4:15pm
Vanderbilt University
Mark Schmitz, Boise State University
The geosciences utilize a wide array of instrumental and analytical tools and technology to identify, quantify and explore Earth materials, and test hypotheses using their physical and chemical properties. The ...
Where in the World is Vladimir Koppen?
TEACHING DEMONSTRATION
Wendy Robertson, Central Michigan University
Daria Kluver, Central Michigan University
Where in the World is Vladimir Koppen? is a board game designed for college-level introduction to the Koppen Climate Classification System. The activity is designed to work in groups of 4-12, with students ...
We're All In This Together: Community science for learning and action
PLENARY TALK
Rajul Pandya, AGU
Science is awesome, especially Earth Science. We've figured out how moving continents create our highest mountain ranges and form our deepest ocean trenches. We know how thunderstorms form, and why some of ...
Teaching Computation in the Geosciences Using MATLAB
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Phil Resor, Wesleyan University
This mini-workshop is for anyone interested in teaching computation: data analysis, algorithm development, or numerical modeling, using the MATLAB programming platform. The workshop will include hands-on ...
A Pilot Study to Assess Chemistry Education in the Geosciences
POSTER SESSION
Erika Zocher, Northern Illinois University
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
It is well established that chemistry is an integral discipline underlying many scientific concepts. However, chemistry also presents challenges and misconceptions that act as barriers for many students (Birk & ...
The Earth Geological Timescale: New Approaches
POSTER SESSION
Alan Capelle, Madison Area Technical College
Conveying the essence of deep geologic time has always presented challenges to K-12, and college earth science instructors alike. In this session, Alan will illustrate a variety of media that can be used to cement ...
Context matters: Designing data-rich geodesy teaching materials that get used
POSTER SESSION
Kristin O'Connell, Carleton College
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope Consortium
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington
Ben Crosby, Idaho State University
Donna Charlevoix, EarthScope Consortium
GETSI (Geodesy Tools for Societal Issues) project is developing modules that allow undergraduate students to engage in geodetic data analysis relevant to societally important topics of natural hazards, water ...
Development of Workforce Skills in Geoscience Courses for Majors
POSTER SESSION
Karen Viskupic, Boise State University
Anne Egger, Central Washington University
Rory McFadden, Carleton College
We used responses from the 2016 administration of the National Survey of Geoscience Faculty (NSGF) to investigate the extent to which courses in geoscience majors help students develop workforce skills. Respondents ...
The EarthConnections Alliance: Engaging Communities through Education
POSTER SESSION
Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
Kevin Bonine, The University of Arizona
Donna Charlevoix, EarthScope Consortium
Rajul Pandya, AGU
Margie Turrin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
From flooding to resource issues, many of the challenges and opportunities faced by communities around the world can be addressed more successfully if the community can make full use of geoscience. Community scale ...
A Model for Workforce Development: PGS Student Drilling Workshop
POSTER SESSION
Kyle Fredrick, Pennsylvania Western University - California
Daniel Harris, Pennsylvania Western University - California
Tamra Schiappa, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
For over 10 years, the Pittsburgh Geological Society (PGS) has been sponsoring a field workshop for university geology students in southwestern Pennsylvania. The event centers around an exhibition by a local ...
Assessing Student Learning with E-Portfolios in the Department of Geosciences at Middle Tennessee State University
POSTER SESSION
Melissa Lobegeier, Middle Tennessee State University
Jeremy Aber, Middle Tennessee State University
Warner Cribb, Middle Tennessee State University
The use of e-portfolios has been growing in popularity in recent years. E-portfolios are digital portfolios used to display an online collection of digital artifacts such as documents, images, and videos. They are ...
Marine Geology Using GEODE
WORKSHOP
Kristen St. John, James Madison University
Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Marine sediments and the geology of the ocean basins are important content topics in all oceanography courses. However these can be "dry" topics to teach, and may be difficult for students to appreciate. ...
Measuring and Increasing the Level of Inquiry in Science Laboratory Activities
WORKSHOP
Katherine Ryker, University of South Carolina-Columbia
Jason Jones, North Carolina State University
Commercially available lab manuals for introductory science courses are often devoid of authentic inquiry opportunities for learners (Buck et al., 2008). Inquiry-based activities have been empirically-shown to ...
Connect with Students by Leveraging Phenomena and Incorporating Modeling into the K-12 Earth Science Classroom
WORKSHOP
Kim Kotowski, Wilson County Schools
For ALL Earth Science teachers! Participants will learn to leverage scientific phenomena and align them to appropriate standards (NGSS with connections to TN science standards and others) We will use anchoring ...
Undergraduate Writing Assignments on the Nature of Science using the NSF-funded "The Story Behind the Science"
ORAL SESSION
Carrie Wright-Tyler, University of Southern Indiana
Scientifically literate citizens are able to actively participate and make decisions in the discourse of science in a global society dealing with scientific issues such as climate change because they have ...
Earth Observatory for Kids: Communicating Earth Science in a hands-on approach to Our Young Earthlings
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Tassia Owen, NASA Goddard
NASA's Earth Observatory, launched a free online publication aimed at communicating real Earth science data to diverse young adults. Publications showcase global issues, increasing young adult's awareness ...
Building Better Graphs for Climate Change Communication: Perceptions of Credibility
ORAL SESSION
Steph Courtney, Auburn University Main Campus
karen mcneal, Auburn University Main Campus
Climate change mitigation will require public support and participation, and scientists often communicate to the public about climate change with visualizations such as graphs. However, there is limited existing ...
Science and You assignment- using the search for evidence behind personal decisions as a parallel to the scientific method
ORAL SESSION
Laura Rosales Lagarde, Nevada State University
Bre Tavernini, Nevada State College at Henderson
Self-reflection and Science are not commonly associated. Neuroscience and psychology studies have found that self-reflection is a hard task for the brain to do naturally (Herwig et al., 2012). Because the ...
Impact of InTeGrate Teaching Materials on Student Geoscience Interests, Literacy and Learning Outcomes at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
ORAL SESSION
Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg III, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Ellen Iverson, Carleton College
Helen Brethauer-Gay, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
John Warford, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Lisa Gilbert, Cabrillo College
Kathryn Sheriff, Mercer University
Cathy Manduca, Carleton College
An interdisciplinary research team from Carleton College and Florida A&M University is investigating the impact of geoscience materials on faculty teaching practices and student learning outcomes at ...
Undergraduate Research in Environmental Science: Using FYRE to Ignite Student Curiosity and Discovery
ORAL SESSION
Alec Aitken, University of Saskatchewan
Krys Chutko, University of Saskatchewan
Xulin Guo, University of Saskatchewan
Kara Loy, University of Saskatchewan
Ryan Banow, University of Saskatchewan
Undergraduate student engagement in scholarly and applied research is foundational to the student experience; it unleashes curiosity and through discovery students develop skills such as critical thinking and ...
Strategies for Using Community Developed Big Data Sets in Teaching
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Mark Uhen, George Mason University
Big data has become ubiquitous in our society and easy to access via the Internet. Many government and non-governmental organizations regularly collect, process, and serve up vast quantities of scientific data to ...
Paleo-Peterson Grabs of Ancient Sea Floors as a Tool to Understand Longer Term Sea Level Change
TEACHING DEMONSTRATION
Michael Gibson, The University of Tennessee-Martin
The fossiliferous sediment record contains the necessary comparative information for us to evaluate modern sea level change consequences. How does one bring the modern ocean experience into a land-locked classroom ...
Teaching about geologic structures with craft foam models and hands-on guided exploration activities
TEACHING DEMONSTRATION
Andrea Bair, Delta College
Classroom instruction on geologic structures often involves models demonstrated by the instructor, and/or student construction of paper or clay models. While these models can be useful for conceptual learning, ...
Information Literacy Integration in an Environmental Geology Course
POSTER SESSION
Racha El Kadiri, Middle Tennessee State University
Mary Ellen Sloane, Middle Tennessee State University
One of the recurring and persistent student deficiencies, especially in terms of research and critical thinking-based assignments include not recognizing the nuances and biases packaged in the information, which ...
Developing Field Experiences at a 2YC: Field Studies Courses at Orange Coast College
POSTER SESSION
Christopher Berg, Orange Coast College
Erik Bender, Orange Coast College
Michael Van Ry, Orange Coast College
Orange Coast College is a 2YC in Orange County, California. Within a six hour's drive from campus, one can experience diverse geologic settings, including multiple iconic national park landscapes. As part of ...
Assessing Geoscience Career Awareness Among Undergraduates
POSTER SESSION
Claire Harrigan, Bowdoin College
Karen Viskupic, Boise State University
One measure of the success of an undergraduate geoscience program is how well its students are prepared for careers in the geosciences. As departments work to prepare undergraduates for the workforce, a method for ...
The Center for Diverse Leadership in Science and Opportunities for a Consortium Towards Equity and Justice
POSTER SESSION
Aradhna Tripati, University of California-Los Angeles
To cultivate increased diversity in the geosciences and environmental sciences, we are developing a program to recruit and support more diverse students, and connect them with better-trained faculty. Our goals are ...