Using Analogies to Teach in the Geosciences part of GET Spatial Learning:Blog
Teachers often use analogies when describing complicated new material to their students. Sometimes they are not even aware that they are using analogies because they do it automatically. Whenever an explanation ...

Geologists and Geologic Content in Genre Fiction: Part 1 part of NAGT:Our Resources:In the Trenches:Articles
This is Part 1 of a 2-part series that examines the portrayal of geologists and the presentation of geologic content and concepts in recent genre fiction. Part 1 discusses the novels of authors Sarah Andrews, Jack ...

Climate Science for Sustainability in the Future Greenhouse/Hothouse part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Programs that Bring Together Geoscience and Sustainability:Essays
David Feary, School of Sustainability and School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus My upcoming course—Climate Science for Sustainability—is a 200-level course offered ...

The Ohio State University School of Earth Sciences part of Building Strong Departments:Workshops:Developing Pathways to Strong Departments:Essays
E. Scott Bair, Chair School of Earth Sciences The Ohio State University The Journey from Department to School: A Time and Space Odyssey Like Earth, academic geology programs evolve over time, sometimes despite the ...

Steve Mattox part of Teacher Preparation:Resource Collections:Essays
Essays on Teacher Preparation by Workshop Participants Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan GVSU is a four-year public institution located 12 miles west of Grand Rapids, Michigan's second largest ...

Some Approaches, Challenges, Implementations, and Possible Future Attempts in Teaching Quantitative Reasoning in Undergraduate Science Courses part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Essays
Dominike Merle-Johnson, STEM-Physical Sciences, Montgomery County Community College-West Campus In the past six and a half years that I have been teaching at two different institutions, I implemented at least two ...

Sustainability: The Key To Student Engagement part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Essays
Benjamin Fackler-Adams, Physical Sciences, Skagit Valley College As an "Instructor of Interdisciplinary Science" at a community college that teaches numerous interdisciplinary, team-taught learning ...

Challenges Inherent in Teaching Geosciences part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Several inherent attributes of ocean, atmosphere and climate sciences contribute to making these disciplines challenging to teach and learn at the K-14 level. These include the large spatial scale of important ...

Should we call on non-volunteering students? part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author postulates that calling on non-volunteering students in class, if done carefully, can set up opportunities for the "self-explantion effect" to come into play and foster deeper, longer-lasting ...

Teaching Time Essay part of Rates and Time:Workshop 2012:Essays
Susan Zimmerman, Center for AMS, Lawrence Livermore National Lab I discovered that I was a geologist as a freshman Russian major at Dickinson College in Carlisle PA, and learned that I loved teaching while working ...