Exemplary Teaching Activities

Beginning in 2011, On the Cutting Edge began a process to review the extensive collection of activities submitted by workshop participants and members of the geoscience community. With the transition of the On the Cutting Edge program into NAGT the review process is now being used to broadly review online teaching activities relevant to NAGT's community of Earth educators. Through this review processes activities are scored on 5 elements: scientific veracity; alignment of goals, activity, and assessment; pedagogical effectiveness; robustness; and completeness of the description. The activities that score very highly in these areas become part of the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection and are featured below.

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    Introduction to Scientific Journals part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
    Avery Shinneman, University of Washington-Bothell Campus
    In this activity, students are introduced to locating and reading peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. It helps ease students into the process of locating, reading, and using journal publications. This ...

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    Building Content Knowledge in a Student Research Team part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
    Deanna van Dijk, Calvin University
    At the beginning of a course-based research project, each student in a research team is asked to read primary literature related to the team investigation. A mix of provided readings and readings found by the ...

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    Intro to Graphing part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
    Debra Woodall, Daytona College
    Intro to Graphing is a 2-phase exercise that introduces students to Excel for the purposes of properly storing their data and producing graphs.

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