Melissa Zrada

The College of New Jersey

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Conference Presentations (3)

Improving Pre-service Teachers' Data Literacy and Computational Thinking Using Earth Data in Existing Methods Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Oral Sessions:Oral Session II
Computing and data permeate our society, and are critical to understanding our Earth. Data literacy is thus essential as an informed and engaged 21st century citizen, and fundamental to understanding the process of ...

Undergraduate students' questions about earth science data visualizations over the course of a semester part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Oral Sessions:Oral Session I
Students' questions provide unique insight into their understanding of course content. However, student questions are not often the focus of education research. Previous work on student questions has focused ...

What kinds of questions do undergraduates generate while exploring data visualizations pertaining to sea level rise and climate change? part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Oral Sessions:Monday A
Question-asking is a necessary step towards generating hypotheses, making decisions, and solving problems, and is Practice #1 in the Next Generation Science Standards. However, research on student question-asking ...

Other Contributions (2)

Oral Session II: Resources for Teaching, Preparing Teachers, and Career Prep part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Oral Sessions:Oral Session II
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Oral Session I part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Oral Sessions:Oral Session I
Each oral session will run over a 2.5 hour period. Each talk will be 15 minutes in length, and there will be a 25 minute break halfway through the session. The schedule for this session is posted below.