Direct Measurement Videos: Extracting Data from Video Clips part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data
Screen shot from a video clip of tennis ball bounced across stage (Quicktime Video 2MB Jun5 12) By Peter Bohacek, Henry Sibley High School Historically, teachers use word problems or context rich problems to ...

Digital Game Based Learning: Educational Video Games? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games
The Wave of the Future? The typical college student plays an estimated 1.8 hours a day of video games (Prensky, 2001b ). Understandably, educators want a piece of that! The US military uses computer war games for ...

Print and Video Resources part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Earth History Approach:Addressing Creationism
The following collection are either referenced in this module, or good general references. Some of the items below could fit into more than one category. Graphic at left from 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution (more ...

Testimonials and Videos part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Cooperative Learning
Dr. Ken Nakayama has developed a set of video and curricular resources about his use of Active Learning Groups in his chemistry classes at California State University - Long Beach. In addition to video of how and ...

Crystallization from Melt Demonstration part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
This demonstration uses melted phenyl salicylate to show how crystals nucleate and grow as the temperature of the liquid melt decreases. -

Making a Soil Monolith part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
This extended exercise engages soils students in both field and laboratory work through the collection and preservation of a soil monolith. -

Stratospheric Ozone part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Students explore observational data from ozone-sondes, TOMS, and UARS measurements to learn about changes in stratospheric ozone over the past several decades. -

ConcepTests part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures
ConcepTests are conceptual multiple-choice questions that were originally designed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University for students in large physics classes (Mazur, 1997 ; NSF, 1996 ). They: Focus on a single ...

References for Game-based Learning part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games
The use of computer games as an educational tool: identification of appropriate game types and elements. Amory et al., 1999 The authors had students play four different kinds of games. Based on student ...

The Reflection Step part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations
Why it matters In the rush to end a class meeting, it may be tempting to skip the reflection step. However research on learning shows that it is important for students to think explicitly about what they have ...