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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 ...

Subject: Education, Geoscience
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Fieldwork Bibliography part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/fieldwk.htm
The Geography Discipline Network
An 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.
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Integrating field observations with physical and computer models in an introductory environmental geology course part of SERC Print Resource Collection
A.P. deWet

Subject: Environmental Science
Research on Learning: Spatial Intelligence:Spatial Representations Of Data , Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Visual Learning

Fieldwork in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Higher Education Curriculum: an annotated bibliography part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/disabil/fieldwk.htm
C. Cottingham, M. Healey, P. Gravestock
Subject: Geography
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Using Mobile Mapping to Determine Rates of Meander Migration in an Undergraduate Geomorphology Course part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Kirsten Menking, Meg E. Stewart
Students in an undergraduate geomorphology course used tablet computers equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software to map the current ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology
Research on Learning: Spatial Intelligence:Maps, Ways Of Learning:In the Field

Fieldwork is Good? The Student Experience of Field Courses part of SERC Web Resource Collection

http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ764517
The Higher Education Academy
This 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' ...
Subject: Education
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Affective Domain

Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork part of SERC Print Resource Collection
K. J. W. McCaffrey, R. R. Jones, R. E. Holdsworth, R. W. Wilson, P. Clegg, J. Imber, N. Hollman, I. Trinks
Abstract: The development of affordable digital technologies that allow the collection and analysis of georeferenced field data represents one of the most significant changes in field-based ...

Subject: Geography, Geoscience
Research on Learning: Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Spatial Intelligence

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Research on Learning: Geoscience Expertise:Structural Analysis , Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field

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. ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field

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 ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Visual Learning