James Ebert

Unit 1: How Do the Methods of Geoscience Compare with THE Scientific Method? part of Exploring Geoscience Methods
This activity introduces geoscientific thinking to a primarily non-geoscience audience. This is the introductory activity of a module designed for pre-service secondary science teachers in a secondary science ...

Unit 2: Climate Change, After the Storm part of Exploring Geoscience Methods
The goal of Unit 2 is for students to apply what they learned about the methods of geoscience to complete an authentic and data-rich, lab-based activity to address the following problem: "To what extent should ...

Exploring Geoscience Methods part of Exploring Geoscience Methods
This module gives pre-service secondary science teachers the opportunity to use and reflect on geoscientific thinking. The module begins with an exploration of how geoscience methods are similar to and different ...

Activity 2.1: The Issue part of Exploring Geoscience Methods
Activity 2.1 motivates and engages students through the issue of climate change in a socioscientific context. This activity first assesses students' prior knowledge and then familiarizes students with a ...

Activity 2.3: Constructing the Argument part of Exploring Geoscience Methods
In Activity 2.3, students make an argument from evidence to address the problem: "To what extent should we build or rebuild coastal communities?" Students work as a team to complete a graphic organizer. ...

Paleoecology Lab part of Paleontology:Activities
This activity gives students practice in identifying fossils in the context of assemblages and allows them to make paleoecological interpretations.

Designing a sedimentary geology course around field-based class projects that yield publishable research part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Field-based research projects can be the heart of a course in sedimentary geology. Course content, organization, readings and laboratory experiences are dictated by the nature of the specific project. Less content ...

Discovering the Principles of Relative Age Determination – a Think-Pair-Share In-Class Activity part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activities
In this in-class activity, students are challenged to identify rock units and geologic features and determine the relative ages of these features without prior instruction in the classical methods of relative age determination.

Taphonomy Lab part of Paleontology:Activities
This lab introduces students to the many modes by which fossils may be preserved.

Rickard Hill Field Project: Peering Into Deep Time part of Paleontology:Activities
In this field activity, students make observations of the texture, lithology and fauna of two limestone units and use this information to reconstuct paleoenvironments, how these environments changed through time ...

Class Research Project: Visualizing Large-Scale Earth Processes and Abstract Concepts part of Teacher Preparation:Resource Collections:Activities
Pre-service Earth Science teachers construct physical models and inquiry-based lessons using these models to help students envision large-scale or abstract concepts in Earth and Space Science.

Geologists and Geologic Content in Genre Fiction: Part 1 part of NAGT:Our Resources:In the Trenches:Articles
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series that examines the portrayal of geologists and the presentation of geologic content and concepts in recent genre fiction. Part 1 discusses the novels of authors Sarah Andrews, Jack ...

SUNY Oneonta: Workforce Preparation for Majors in Geology, Water Resources, Earth Science and Meteorology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Geoscience and the 21st Century Workforce:Essays
James Ebert, SUNY Oneonta As a multidisciplinary Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, we provide four majors for our students: Geology, Water Resources (hydrogeology), Earth Science and Meteorology. Each ...

Lithic literacy and the "forensic" methods of geoscience part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Essays
Lithic literacy and the "forensic" methods of geoscienceJames R. Ebert, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York, College at Oneonta My approach to teaching the methods of geoscience ...

Earth History and the Fossil Record part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Course Supplement Collection
James R. Ebert, State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta.This page is a supplement to the original course description found hereShort description of the course:This is an historical geology course in ...

Sedimentary Geology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Course Supplement Collection
James Ebert, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, SUNY College at Oneonta.This page is a supplement to the original course description found hereShort description of the course:Field-based research projects can be the ...

Beyond Content: Roles of Geoscientists in Preparing Pre-Service Earth Science Teachers part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Roundtable Discussions
Majors in Earth Science education learn their content in geoscience departments and pedagogy in departments or schools of education and seldom the twain shall meet. How can geoscientists help in best preparing ...

Theme Group 2: Earth Science for Secondary Teachers - Systems and Models part of Teacher Preparation:Workshops and Activities:Workshop 2007
Group Members Eric Pyle, History and Philosophy of the Geosciences James Ebert, Laboratory Techniques in Earth Science William Slattery, Earth Systems Jill Singer, Oceanography Sandra Rutherford, Methods for ...

Increasing students' comprehension of assigned readings and participation in class discussions through QRS - an active reading strategy part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Students seldom achieve the level of learning that we intend with assigned readings. Likewise, they do not participate in class discussions of these readings as extensively as we would like. Through QRS, an active ...