Please join us as we introduce you to the Project EDDIE resource collection – the results of an NSF-funded effort to create flexible classroom modules that aim to expose students to real-world data and practice ...

The goal of this 2-day workshop is to provide participants an opportunity to develop their own hands-on, student-centered (i.e., active learning) dynamics activity that participants can then readily use within ...

Students frequently struggle when working with data. Handling solid earth geochemical data can be especially daunting as it requires a basic knowledge of stoichiometry, magma composition, and physical processes. ...

In this workshop, we will help graduate students build their skills as teaching assistants (TAs) and articulate those skills in light of future careers. Participants will develop skills and confidence for ...

This workshop will guide participants through the process of incorporating nature journaling into their curriculum. We will discuss ways to blend reflective writing, field notetaking and sketching to enhance ...

The goal of this workshop is to identify the types of research problems/questions that can be answered within qualitative education research frameworks. The primary focus will be on evaluating how decisions are ...

Introducing Geophysics for Urban and Near-surface Applications (IGUANA) Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce begins with attracting a diverse student population into the geosciences. The IGUaNA project, ...

Ungrading is the practice of decentering or removing grades from the learning process to better support diverse student needs. It can help to reduce student stress and anxiety, stimulate more meaningful reflection ...

The Californias are one of the few places on Earth where the geology of the land is intimately entangled with the details of the adjacent oceanic plate tectonic history and, as such, they present an exceptional ...

Event page detailing the agenda, presenters, and abstracts for Thursday Oral Session A at the 2023 Earth Educators' Rendezvous, covering geoscience education topics including diversity outreach, environmental justice pedagogy, evolution instruction, online lab performance, and spatial thinking in undergraduate geology.

Virtual field trips allow learners to benefit from many of the aspects of place-based education without the challenges that are often associated with it. Tour It is a free, user-friendly virtual field trip tool ...

Event page for Thursday Oral Session B at the 2023 Earth Educators' Rendezvous, featuring presentations on DIY virtual field trips, digital lesson creation, authentic assessments in environmental science, and mind maps in geohazards education, held at Pasadena City College.

GeoFORCE Texas at the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences is a very large, well-funded youth diversity outreach program created to introduce high school students to STEM, especially the geosciences. ...

Children in racially segregated neighborhoods and/or communities with concentrated poverty are more likely to have poor indoor and outdoor air quality (Miranda et al., 2011; Wodtke et al, 2022) and poor-quality ...

Infiniscope,a NASA funded project, has developed an open-source, digital platform for lesson development and delivery. It enables educators to create their own digital lessons and deploy them to their classes with ...

Introduction to Environmental Science is a required course for Environmental Science and Environmental Studies majors at Spelman College. It is also commonly taken by non-science majors because it fulfills their ...

Non-acceptance of biological evolution is prevalent in U.S. adults, including in college students across all disciplines. Previous studies have shown that even among college biology majors, non-acceptance of ...

Over the 2021-2022 academic year, students enrolled in online (OL) sections of our Physical Geology laboratory course collectively averaged lower grades than their same-semester peers in face-to-face (F2F) ...

Encouraging critical thinking and the integration of information to solve real-life problems is key as it assists in building lifelong learning skills applicable in any space. Helping students build these skills ...

There has been a global emphasis in developing the STEM workforce over the last several decades. Spatial thinking ability is a strong predictor of success in STEM (Wai et al., 2009; Shea et al., 2001). Spatial ...

How do we successfully increase belonging, accessibility, justice, equity, and inclusion (BeAJEDI) in STEM? My opinions are based on a synthesis of past research and the vision that guided the development of ...