PANNING FOR "GOLD": HELPING STUDENTS EVALUATE WEB PAGES FOR CLASS USE
Fred Marton, Bergen Community College; Lynn Schott, Bergen Community College
It is not unusual for students to search the web for sources to use for their classes. It is also not unusual for some of those sources to be unacceptable for a variety of reasons. To help students recognize which ...

Information from Seismograms: Beyond Epicenters, For Even the Novice Student
Laurel Goodell, Princeton University
An objective of many entry-level earthquake exercises is to use S-P wave travel time differences from multiple seismic stations, and then "triangulate" to determine the location of the epicenter of a ...

On the Air: Exploring air pollution sources
Elizabeth Spike, FCPS and Clean Air Partners; Alexander Hume Spike, Air Alliance Houston
Air quality is less familiar to the public, resulting in a deficit of air quality lessons compared to water and soil within K-12 science education. On the Air overcomes this barrier to environmental literacy and ...

Enhancing computational geoscience participation and training with the MTMOD project
Dana Thomas, City of Austin; Dunyu Liu, The University of Texas at Austin; Thorsten W Becker, The University of Texas at Austin; Alice Gabriel, University of California-San Diego; Shuoshuo Han, The University of Texas at Austin; Kaj Johnson, Indiana University-Bloomington; Luc Lavier, The University of Texas at Austin; Dave May, University of California-San Diego; Demian Saffer, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; Daniel Trugman, University of Nevada-Reno; Laura Wallace, The University of Texas at Austin
The Megathrust Modeling Framework (MTMOD) project is an NSF-supported Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) project connecting domain scientists, education leads, and research support staff, and a number of ...

Facilitating Effective Group Projects in Geoscience Courses
Sasha Seroy, University of Washington-Seattle Campus; Dana Thomas, City of Austin
This workshop will explore effective ways to facilitate group projects to promote the development of workforce skills for students. We will provide an overview of the benefits of group projects for geoscience ...

Paleontologists for a Day
Mattie Horne, Western Washington University; Robyn Dahl, Western Washington University
This activity uses hands-on interaction with 3D-modeled fossils to guide students and educators through an exploration of critical geoscience concepts (deep time, paleoclimate, functional morphology, and ...

Assessing geoscience major learning objectives using a course-based undergraduate field research experience
Phil Resor, Wesleyan University; Rachael Barlow, Wesleyan University; Tim Ku, Wesleyan University; Suzanne O'Connell, Wesleyan University; Dana Royer, Wesleyan University; Kim Diver, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
A key question is how successful geoscience bachelor's degree programs are at building skills students require for future success. In Wesleyan University's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences ...

Understanding feedback loops to approach systems-level thinking
An Nguyen, Temple University; Alexandra Davatzes, Temple University; Kim Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Thomas Shipley, Temple University
Systems-level thinking and analysis, where a problem is viewed broadly as a whole rather than as its parts, is a necessary skill when attempting to solve systemic problems; one, however, which students can ...

Soil Science: Bridging Geology and Environmental Science in a Sustainable World
Michelle Cauley, Dakota College at Bottineau
The study of soils, soil health, and soil's impact on our climate is paramount in our ever-changing educational landscape. In this workshop, participants will be exploring the connection that soils have in our ...

Horses and Their Ancestors - A Geologic Time Scale Card Sort of the Cenozoic Era
Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim, Front Range Community College
The concept of geologic time can be difficult for students to grasp because of the vast scale of the Earth's 4.56-billion-year biography. This hands-on, minds-on activity highlights events during the Cenozoic ...