Integrating nature journals into an online pre-service elementary education science course part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Teacher preparation in the elementary education program at Georgia State University, a large public minority-serving institution in downtown Atlanta, includes a series of "integrated science" courses ...

Activities that Warm Students Up to Glaciers part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Friday B
Three simple activities can be used to help students understand the internal and external processes that take place when glaciers advance. Students will learn that in addition to gravity pulling glaciers downhill, ...

The Versatility of a Simple Box of Random Rocks for In-Person and Online Instruction part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
This activity will demonstrate several ways in which a simple box of random rocks can be used in a variety of ways for hands-on learning about composition and texture in rocks, and rounding, porosity, and ...

A Walk in the Park: Earth Science Service-Learning part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Poster Sessions:Thursday
In an effort to increase experiential learning at KSU at Stark in the Department of Geology, I redesigned Environmental Earth Science as a service-learning course in conjunction with Stark Parks. My curriculum ...

Program part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Morning Workshops:Games in Education
Pre-workshop Complete the short survey by Tuesday, July 16. Optional pre-workshop reading: Game Based Learning- Is It Effective Cl...om Instruction_ _ Coffee For The Brain.pdf (Acrobat (PDF) 469kB Jul5 24) ...

Evaluating Sands using Remotely-Operated Scanning Electron Microscope part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday A
In this session, we will demonstrate how students can, in the classroom, use a remotely-accessed scanning electron microscope (SEM) and electron dispersion spectrometer (EDS) for course-based undergraduate ...

Resources part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Morning Workshops:Heads and Chairs: Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education website contains many resources, including Summits and Geoscience Employers Workshop materials, PowerPoints, archives of live broadcasts, and links to information ...

Developing Systems Thinking part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Mini Workshops:Systems Thinking
Many of the challenges we now face require complex solutions that cross disciplinary boundaries and take into account multiple perspectives. How do we as educators prepare students to think in this way? ...

Project Ice - from the American Meteorological Society's Education Program part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday
This program will introduce K-12 teachers to the American Meteorological Society's Education Summer Programs. David is a Certified AMS Teacher (CAT #22) and has participated in all of the programs offered. An ...

Benefits of Pan-African Approaches to Teaching the Geosciences part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Afternoon Workshops
This workshop is designed to demonstrate the value of, and potential in, using long held, culturally responsive and universally principled teaching methods developed by people throughout the African Diaspora. This ...