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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: Geoscience, Education
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 ...

Subject: Education, Geoscience:Oceanography
Research on Learning: Cognitive Domain:How information is organized:Mental models, Ways Of Learning:Active/Kinesthetic/Experiential, In the Field, Instructional Design:Use of Technology, Teaching 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: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching 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:Visual Learning, In the Field

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: Affective Domain, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field

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: Spatial Intelligence, Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Use of Technology

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

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 ...

Subject: Geography:Geospatial
Research on Learning: Ways Of Learning:In the Field, Instructional Design:Teaching in the Field