Nicole LaDue

Lateral Continuity part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to click in the ...

Modeling Asperities with Spaghetti part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity uses a physical model to facilitate students' understanding of elastic deformation of rocks and the episodic nature of motion on a fault, which leads to earthquakes and aftershocks.

Geologic Time part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to "Click on ...

Isostasy Prediction part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...

Resistance to Weathering part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to "Click on ...

Earth Layers part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...

Weathering and Sedimentary Processes in Google Streetview part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
This exercise uses Google Streetview, in combination with 360 degree immersive photographs, to show students real-world examples of the sedimentary rocks, sedimentary structures, and weathering processes that they ...

Groundwater Contamination Prediction part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told, "A storm ...

River Profile Prediction part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown one of these diagrams and told to ...

Hotspot Prediction part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told, "The tectonic ...

Scaffolding Temporal Reasoning with Geologic Timelines part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This 30 minute activity engages students in ordering and spacing geologic history events on a meter stick. Students engage in an inquiry cycle, individually first, then with a partner before receiving feedback on ...

Magnetic Reversals at Divergent Plate Boundaries part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and given the prompt: ...

Faults part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and prompted to "If ...

Confined Aquifer part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown these diagrams and instructed to ...

Alpine Glaciers part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told to "If more ...

Correlation part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told, "Fossils ...

Subduction Zone part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...

Spatial Learning Challenges Associated with Sequence Stratigraphy part of GET Spatial Learning:Blog
A blog post analyzing spatial learning challenges in sequence stratigraphy, discussing foundational concepts like base level, eustasy, relative sea level, and accommodation space, while exploring the 3-D and 4-D spatial reasoning skills—such as perspective taking, object relations, and dynamic updating—required for students to interpret stratigraphic sequences through retrodiction.

Using Classroom Response Systems for Research on Learning part of GET Spatial Learning:Blog
This blog post page discusses leveraging classroom response systems (clickers) in undergraduate science education for both enhancing active learning and conducting research on student conceptual understanding, highlighting techniques like formative assessment, peer instruction, and iterative prediction with immediate feedback to refine mental models.

Nicole LaDue part of Metacognition:Workshop 08:Participant Essays
This personal essay page by Nicole LaDue, a National Science Foundation researcher and former K-12 educator, explores practical metacognitive strategies in science education, emphasizing techniques like anticipatory sets, jigsaw activities, and KWL charts to foster reflective thinking, particularly within geoscience pedagogy and inquiry-based learning environments.

Development of a Hydrogeology Concept Inventory part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Concept inventories are fundamental in assessing and evaluating student knowledge and understanding across science disciplines. In the earth sciences, existing inventories measure student understanding of ...

Assessing the impact of diagram detail on students understanding of hydrology part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Geoscience education relies on figures and diagrams to convey visual and spatial information to students, but the effectiveness of those images can be difficult to assess. Additionally, an individuals' ...

Investigating factors that affect teachers' participation in a Geo-STEM Learning Ecosystem part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Oral Sessions:Thursday Oral Session B
Geo-STEM learning ecosystems (GLE) are communities of transformation engaging educators and learners in the geosciences to address local geoscience issues by bringing together current research and place-based ...

Results of the 2021/2022 GER Needs Assessment Survey: A Snapshot of the Community part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday Poster Session
The geoscience education research (GER) community began to coalesce as its own independent field in the 2000s, after significant groundwork done by "border crossers" in prior decades (NRC, 2012). By 2014, ...

A Pilot Study to Assess Chemistry Education in the Geosciences part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Poster Sessions:Wednesday
It is well established that chemistry is an integral discipline underlying many scientific concepts. However, chemistry also presents challenges and misconceptions that act as barriers for many students (Birk & ...

Geo-Needs: A Synthesized Ideal Model for Broadening Participation in the Geosciences at Two-Year and Minority-Serving Institutions part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Poster Sessions:Thursday
Employment opportunities in the geosciences are rapidly expanding, yet underrepresented minorities continue to make up ~8% of the geoscience-related workforce. Our project focuses specifically on the lack of ...

The ENGAGE Workshop: Encouraging Networks between Geoscience and Geoscience Education part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Abstracts
The geoscience education community has made great strides in the study of teaching and learning at the undergraduate level, particularly with respect to solid earth geology. Nevertheless, the 2012 National ...

Visuospatial Ability and Geologic Mapping: Experts and Novices in the Field part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2014 Structure and Tectonics Forum Abstracts
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University Heather Petcovic, Western Michigan University Julie Libarkin, Michigan State University D. Zachary Hambrick, Michigan State University Kathleen Baker, Western Michigan ...

Monday Earth Education Forum: Mentoring for the Next Generation of Geoscientists part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program
For many of us, the pandemic has laid bare challenges all across academia, not the least of which is how we mentor and support our students. In this forum, our goal is to have frank conversations to reflect on what ...

Engaging Your Students with Visual Representations: Why, What, and How part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Morning Workshops:Engaging your students with visual representations: Why, What, and How
Visual-spatial reasoning is important for understanding many of the structures and processes in the geosciences. To make learning more efficient, instructors must engage students using strategies that facilitate ...