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A Model for the Development and Implementation of Field Trips as an Integral Part of the Science Curriculum part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Nir Orion
In this paper, Orion summarizes what we know from the literature about designing effective field trips for high school students, including the challenges and barriers to success. The model he ...
Scientific Argumentation in Earth System Science Education part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Diane Schweizer Clayton, Catherine GautierWe investigate the merit of including deliberate instruction on argumentation and debate in an undergraduate Earth system science course. We examine sample student evaluations of arguments ...
Fieldwork Bibliography part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Geography Discipline NetworkAn annotated bibliography from the Geography Discipline Network (affiliated with GEES in the UK) on learning in the field. Readers are invited to suggest additions to the bibliography.
Fieldwork is Good? The Student Experience of Field Courses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The Higher Education AcademyThis site describes the results of a research project that was conducted across geography, earth science and environmental science disciplines to examine the effect of fieldwork on students' ...
Reconstruction/Interpretation of Macroscopic Structures from Discontinuous Mesoscopic Observations: A Major task of Field/Structural Geologists part of SERC Print Resource Collection
F. Omelas Marques
Geologists face a difficult task when mapping metasedimentary rocks over large areas where outcrops are scarce: reconstruction/interpretation of the macroscopic structure from information gathered at ...
A Field-Oriented Volcanology Course to Improve Earth Science part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Stephen Ross Mattox, Janet L. Babb
Volcanology for Earth Science Teachers (VEST), a teacher enhancement project conducted by the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH-Hilo), was funded by the National Science Foundation from 1994 to 1996. ...
A Simple and Effective Tool for Teaching the Concept of Strike and Dip and the Measurement of Structural Data in the Field part of SERC Print Resource Collection
David A. Gonzales
The concept of strike and dip is integral to field studies in geology, but can be challenging and frustrating for students to learn. A simple and inexpensive field tool has proven effective in ...
Introducing Students to Environmental Geophysics in a Field Setting part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Michael T. May, Michael G. Gibbons
An introductory environmental geophysics short course targeted for traditional undergraduate geoscience students but that can be taken also for continuing education credit by practicing professionals ...
An Integrative Summer Field Course in Geology and Biology for K-12 Instructors and College and Continuing Education Students at Eastern Washington University and Beyond part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Jennifer A. Thomson, John A. Buchanan, Suzanne Schwab
For the last fifteen years, a small group of faculty members in the departments of geology and biology at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA have offered a seven to ten day interdisciplinary ...
The Hidden Earth: Visualization of Geologic Features and their Subsurface Geometry part of SERC Web Resource Collection
Jessey DavidThis PDF from researchers at Arizona State University illustrates useful graphs, charts and maps with which to teach undergraduates petrology and other processes beneath the earth's surface.