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Caitlin Callahan
Geology Department
Grand Valley State University
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Activity (1)
Making Topographic Maps part of K-8 Geo Teacher Preparation:Workshop 2016:Activities
In this activity, students learn how to contour topographic data from three-dimensional models that they create for themselves. Students examine how topographic contour lines differ based on different topographic features.
Conference Presentations (2)
Rock, Paper, Hammer: Where do thoughts and actions count in making a geologic map? part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
In this study, we integrate data capturing the physical actions, spoken thoughts, and navigation paths of geologists as each makes a geologic map of a field site in the Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana, USA. Four ...
Comparing Social Comparisons in Geoscience Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Oral Sessions:Wednesday B
Students commonly compare their performance on an assignment or in a class to that of their peers. Our goal in this descriptive pilot study is to explore how this tendency towards making comparisons—defined as ...
Other Contributions (6)
Research on Access and Success of Under-Represented Groups in the Geosciences part of NAGT:Geoscience Education Research:Community Framework for GER:Access and Success
Download a pdf of this chapterEric M. Riggs, Texas A & M University; Caitlin Callahan, Grand Valley State University; and Jim Brey, American Meteorological Society Introduction The geosciences as an allied ...
Communities
July 2017 Earth Educators Rendezvous 2015
July 2015 Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts Interest Group
Teach the Earth
EER 2019 Contributed Program Committee
Earth Educators' Rendezvous 2016
NAGT All
JGE Associate Editors
Workshop Participant (16 workshops)
July 2019 Introduction to Course Design using InTeGrate Materials
July 2018 Advancing Transdisciplinary Dialogue in Geoscience Education Research
July 2018
