Diversity and Careers in the Geosciences

Introductory Earth Science course

No prior knowledge or skills required

This is one of several discussion board discussions sprinkled through the course.

Students will learn about a range of careers in geoscience and will be able to describe one career option in some depth

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Writing, including responding to other students' posts on our course discussion board

Students read a blog post published by the European Geosciences Union highlighting the work of Black geoscientists. Each student chooses one scientist with a job that sounds interesting to the student and writes a description for their classmates, in their own words, about what that scientist does. Students also respond to their classmates' posts. I provide some resources where students can learn about geoscience careers to supplement the EGU blog post.

• Student handout, Diversity and Careers in Geoscience (Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) 32kB Nov1 21) 

This activity could also be done as a jigsaw in the classroom or on zoom. Initial groups would each be assigned one person from the EGU blog site. I am still thinking about the details of using this activity in this way.

I am liberal with my grading for online discussions. I do not use a rubric, but give full credit to anyone who follows all of the instructions. Eighty percent of their grade is based upon their initial posting and 20% is based upon their response.

EGU blog post on Black geoscientists: https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2020/06/10/black-in-geosciences/

Additional resources are linked within the student handout.