Thursday Schedule At-A-Glance
Supporting Student Wellness
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Ann Marie Pettigrew, Stanford University
Robyn Dunbar, Stanford University
Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, we are no longer able to offer this workshop. We will contact current registrants soon with alternative options.
Course Design: Using effective lesson design strategies to enhance the use of active learning
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Reginald Archer, Tennessee State University
Jason Jones, North Carolina State University
This workshop will address how to approach course design in a manner that will maximize clarity and provide opportunities for all students to succeed. Participants will work collaboratively with workshop leaders ...
Science Communication
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Beth Bartel, UNAVCO
Wendy Bohon, IRIS Consortium
Updated for the online workshop format. Participants in this workshop will work to improve their science communication skills through interactive activities that can in turn be incorporated into geoscience ...
Teaching for a Changing World: Water resources and melting ice
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
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 ...
Art and Field Sketching
WORKSHOP
Thursday, Friday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Ander Sundell, College of Western Idaho
April VanDeGrift, College of Western Idaho
Ryan Petterson, Stanford University
A deployable module to increase students' drawing and sketching abilities. Drawing is a vital mode of communication in the geosciences. As educators, we use it to communicate concepts and processes to our ...
Thursday Plenary: Taking a Scientific Approach to Teaching Science
PLENARY TALK
Thursday
12:00-1:00pm PT / 1:00-2:00pm MT / 2:00-3:00pm CT / 3:00-4:00pm ET
Carl Wieman, Stanford University
Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. Guided primarily by tradition and dogma, science education meanwhile has remained largely medieval. Research ...
Broadening participation in the geosciences through undergraduate on-ramps: Lessons learned in the SAGE 2YC Project
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30-4:00pm PT / 2:30-5:00pm MT / 3:30-6:00pm CT / 4:30-7:00pm ET
Online
Andrea Bair, Delta College
The geosciences are currently among the least diverse of all science fields. Broadening participation at all levels likely requires both confronting issues of implicit bias and privilege, and concerted efforts ...
Eos in the Classroom: Building Educational Resources with Science News
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30-4:00pm PT / 2:30-5:00pm MT / 3:30-6:00pm CT / 4:30-7:00pm ET
Online
Eric Riggs, Humboldt State University
Heather Goss, American Geophysical Union
The Earth and space sciences are exciting because they literally span the entire world—the entire universe—that we live in, but this magnitude can sometimes be difficult to capture and convey to students. ...
Theories of Change and Logic Models
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30-4:00pm PT / 2:30-5:00pm MT / 3:30-6:00pm CT / 4:30-7:00pm ET
Online
Ellen Iverson, Carleton College
Increasingly theories of change are expected to be a central component articulated within education research grant proposals and manuscripts. At the end of this short workshop, participants will be able to ...
Facilitating Student Centered Community Action Projects
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30-4:00pm PT / 2:30-5:00pm MT / 3:30-6:00pm CT / 4:30-7:00pm ET
Online
Sarah Johnson, Wild Rose Education
Come learn from the Youth Water Leadership Program a few tips and tricks to creating student-centered authentic place-based learning opportunities for secondary students. Through interactive activities and group ...
Applying the ICAP Theory of Cognitive Engagement to Active Geoscience Learning
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30-4:00pm PT / 2:30-5:00pm MT / 3:30-6:00pm CT / 4:30-7:00pm ET
Online
Cathy Cullicott, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Steven Semken, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
While research supports the use of active learning methods in teaching geoscience and other STEM courses, determining what constitutes "active learning" is a challenge to incorporating more such methods. ...
Designing and Running Effective Workshops
AFTERNOON MINI WORKSHOP
Thursday
1:30-4:00pm PT / 2:30-5:00pm MT / 3:30-6:00pm CT / 4:30-7:00pm ET
Online
John McDaris, Carleton College
The geoscience education community has made great strides over the last two decades in part because an increasing number of faculty have taken part in high-quality professional development opportunities around ...
