GET Spatial Learning Network

Introduction

Through the collaboration of cognitive psychologists, education researchers, and geoscience educators, the Geoscience Education Transdisciplinary Spatial Learning Network aims to develop educational tools that can help students, across classroom and field settings, to better understand and build upon historically difficult geoscience concepts. Read more about this project and the members of the GET Spatial Network.

The Blog: Postcards from a trading zone

Throughout this project, project team members will be writing blog posts, collaboratively. Read what we're thinking on the GET Spatial Learning Blog.

Teaching Activities

Project team members are developing teaching activities incorporating spatial feedback and spatial accommodation. Browse the teaching activity collection.

GSA Workshop 2018

We led a half-day workshop on Strengthening Students' Spatial Thinking Skills at the 2018 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. This short course focused on developing geoscience students' spatial thinking skills through research-based curricular materials. We emphasized strategies and tools that support students with a range of spatial skills without imposing additional burdens on the instructor.