Theme: Online Education
The programming listed below seeks to address the topic of Online Education.
- Attracting and Supporting Students
- Community Engagement
- Course Resources
- Curriculum Design
- Developing Geocompetencies
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Geoscience Education Research
- Online Education
- Place-based Learning
- Professional Development for Undergrads, Grads and Faculty
- Program Design
- Research for Undergrads
- Student Learning
- Teacher Preparation, Professional Development and Policy Issues
From the Emerald Isle to the Red Planet: How to Make your Virtual Field Trip out of this World
WORKSHOP
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Shelley Whitmeyer, James Madison University
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
Eric Pyle, James Madison University
Many high-impact, field-focused geoscience learning experiences have gone virtual to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 and maintain the continuity of this important aspect of students' preparation. ...
Preparing for Student Creation of Virtual Contexts for Exploring Geoscience Environments
WORKSHOP
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
8-11am PT / 9am-12pm MT / 10am-1pm CT / 11am-2pm ET
Online
Aida Awad, Maine East High School
Hemalatha Bhaskaran, James M Bennett High School
Mark Carpenter, American Geological Institute
Edward Robeck, American Geosciences Institute
Steven Semken, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The importance of field experiences in geoscience education cannot be overstated. While a virtual field trip cannot substitute for the physical experience of being in a place, exploring sites of geoscientific and ...
Connecting Paleontology and Culture: Inclusive Narratives Through Fossil Use Cards
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Christy Visaggi, Georgia State University
Taormina Lepore, Western Michigan University
Trisha Smrecak, Northwestern Michigan College
By examining ways in which humans have interacted with fossils, we can highlight a range of cultural connections to paleontology that emphasize improved representation of inclusive cultural narratives while ...
Virtual Petrography - Expanding the Microscope Laboratory with a New Interactive Online Tool
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Heidi Daxberger, University of Toronto
Kirsten Kennedy, University of Toronto
Shane Sookhan, Univerity of Toronto-Scarborough
Rebecca Moumblow, McMaster University
To overcome major challenges of teaching mineralogy and petrology classes that are based on hands-on instruction with a polarizing microscope, a collaborative effort resulted in a web-based resource of digitized ...
Where the Wild Things Were: an online interactive and accessible atlas of charismatic animal losses from the Pleistocene to today
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Nicholas Spano, University of California Museum of Paleontology
Since the Pleistocene, over half of all large animals have become extinct — mostly through human population pressures and global warming that has transcended prehistoric, recent, and modern times. Highlighting ...
Climate Toolkit: Resource Manual for Science and Action
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Frank Granshaw, Portland State University
The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it ...
Optical mineralogy reference tutorials and unknowns on YouTube
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Matt Kohn, Boise State University
These videos are not directly an activity, but rather serve as a publicly-available foundation for upper level undergraduate lab instruction in optical mineralogy and igneous and metamorphic petrology. A set of ...
Geodetic Learning Resources for Your (Virtual) Classroom
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Shelley E Olds, EarthScope Consortium
Donna Charlevoix, EarthScope Consortium
Melissa Weber, UNAVCO
Learning modules and supplemental materials focused on geodesy and geodetic applications are freely available to educators through UNAVCO Education and Community Engagement. In this Share-a-thon, we will share a ...
Heirloom Geology: How to Create an Inclusive Classroom by Centering Place-based Geology on Students' Cultural Heritage and Personal Histories
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
LeAnne Teruya, San Jose State University
This activity uses students' cultural heritage and personal experience as a form of place-based geology. As an introduction to minerals, students are asked to provide a photo and write about a culturally or ...
Sketchfab and Virtual Microscope for Petrology Labs
SHARE-A-THON
Monday
11:15-11:45am PT / 12:15-12:45pm MT / 1:15-1:45pm CT / 2:15-2:45pm ET
Online
Jennifer Cuthbertson, University of Calgary
Similar to many post-secondary institutions, the second-year Igneous and Metamorphic petrology labs at the University of Calgary were forced to go online due to the covid-19 pandemic. Online resources for hand ...