Blair Larsen

Contrails or Chemtrails? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Using multi-media and basic atmospheric physics, students investigate contrails and chemtrails. Students apply previous learning about pseudoscience, and couple that with an understanding of the atmosphere to reach ...

Blair Larsen, Utah State University part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Essays
Participant essay page from an InTeGrate workshop on teaching Earth science online, featuring Blair Larsen of Utah State University discussing effective online course practices, emphasizing faculty communication, student engagement through peer interaction and problem-based learning, use of open web resources instead of a textbook, and assessment strategies including discussion prompts and detailed grading rubrics.