Teaching Atmospheric Dynamics with Python Modules
Walt Robinson, North Carolina State University
Students (undergraduate & graduate) often find dynamics the most challenging course in their atmospheric sciences curricula. Traditionally the material is presented from a mathematical physics perspective, and ...

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 ...

Project Ice - from the American Meteorological Society's Education Program
David Amidon, National Center for Science Education
This program will introduce K-12 teachers to the American Meteorological Society's Education Summer Programs. David is a Certified AMS Teacher (CAT #22) and has participated in all of the programs offered. An ...

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 ...

Carbon Cycle & 6th Mass Extinction Board Games
Rachel Phillips, University of South Carolina-Columbia
These are educational board games I created for the lab associated with my undergraduate course, "Processes of Global Environmental Change", which is an upper level elective at the University of South ...

Identifying Ocean Basins
Danielle Schmitt, Princeton University
In this multi-part activity students investigate the location, width, and depth of, as well bathymetric features present in, different ocean basins. They first explore elevation and bathymetric profiles that span ...

Analyzing Student Reasoning Around Socioscientific Issues
Carla McAuliffe, IGES
For the past decade the Model-Evidence Link (MEL) project has studied student reasoning around socioscientific issues including climate change, extreme weather, and the use and availability of natural resources. We ...

Field notes from the geoscience classroom by the June 2023 & January 2024 NAGT Outstanding Teaching Assistants
Sinjini Sinha, The University of Texas at Austin; Lauren Burns, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Emma McCully, Boise State University; Amadi Afua Sefah-Twerefour, University of South Carolina-Columbia
Teaching assistants (TAs) provide an important source of connection for undergraduate students, helping them master content, become more confident as scientists, and develop a wide array of skills. NAGT annually ...

Making An Impact: Exploring Perceptions of 'Making' within Underrepresented Student Groups in Geoscience
Cameron McClellan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Bryant Hutson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Megan Plenge, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
'Making' in STEM education promotes project-based learning and engineering design, encourages creativity, and, in some cases, can increase the engagement of marginalized students. Our research examines ...

LGBTQ+ Representation in the Geosciences... Showing Our Students That They Belong!
Alicia Mullens, De Anza College
The Geosciences, and science in general, has not always been the most approachable professional and academic field for members of marginalized communities to get started in. Despite the recent increase in ...