A collection of resources related to field-based learning.
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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 ...
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field
Learning oceanography from a computer simulation compared with direct experience at sea part of SERC Print Resource Collection
W. Winn, F. Stahr, C. Sarason, R. Fruuland, P. Oppenheimer, and Y.-L. Lee
A one day field trip on a research vessel in Puget Sound helped undergraduate students understand the context of an oceanographic lesson, and improved the conceptual understanding of students who ...
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field, Use of Technology, Ways Of Learning:Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential, Cognitive Domain:How information is organized:Mental models
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.
Integrating field observations with physical and computer models in an introductory environmental geology course part of SERC Print Resource Collection
A.P. deWet
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
C. Cottingham, M. Healey, P. GravestockResearch 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 ...
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
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' ...
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 ...
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 ...
Research on Learning: Geoscience Expertise:Structural Analysis , Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field
Using GPS to Teach More than Accurate Positions part of SERC Print Resource Collection
Marie C. Johnson, Peter L. Guth
Undergraduate science majors need practice in critical thinking, quantitative analysis, and judging whether their calculated answers are physically reasonable. We have developed exercises using ...
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field