GIS part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
Rob Benson (participant) has been ESRI Instructor for years. No need for a GIS degree - it has gotten integrated - he is trying to get GIS components into each course. GIS has gotten easier to use, 2 ½ week ...

The Changing Geographic Distribution of Malaria with Global Climate Warming part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
In this exercise, students analyze climate data to find areas in the southern United States that are now close to having conditions in which the malaria parasite and its mosquito hosts thrive and then attempt to forecast when areas might become climatically suitable.

Viscosity of the Mantle: Constraints from Post-glacial Rebound part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
This laboratory experiment emphasizes the exponential nature of post-glacial rebound and reinforces the relationship between the rate of rebound and the viscosity of the mantle.

Issues in teaching quantitative skills to introductory geoscience classes part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2006
from the participants of the 2006 Infusing Quantitative Skills into Intro Geoscience workshop Jump down to: Scaling Models | Using Google Earth | Quantitative Literacy/Quantitative Reasoning | GIS | Bredth Vs. ...

DataSheets part of Quantitative Skills:Tools and Datasets
Originally developed for the NSDL Using Data in the Classroom portal, DataSheets concisely describe particular scientific data sets in a way that is useful to educators interested in teaching with the data. ...

Projects part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Projects Darcys Law (Acrobat (PDF) 246kB Jan20 04) for Multiple Levels in Math and Geoscience Courses, Steve Leonhardi, Cathy Summa Developing Regional Curves (Acrobat (PDF) 115kB Jan20 04) of Stream Hydraulic ...

Here we see it, but what's beneath? Effective geologic cross-section problem solving part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Students will use suface observations from a map to locate subsurface features using geologic cross-sections using topographic profiles, surface data, assessment of variables and data quality. Students will produce a standard scientific report describing the nature and conclusions of the project.

July 26th Morning Discussion Notes part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
How can we best prepare geoscience students with the quantitative skills they need? What are the roles of math (skills?) and geology (application?)? How do we coordinate and not have gaps? Repetition and pervasive ...

Summary of Discussion surrounding "A Geoscience versus a Mathematical Approach to Problem Solving" part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
Small groups of geologists and mathematicians were given a map of Lake Erie with depths shown in different colors. Each group was asked to discuss ways to go about calculating the volume of the lake. Not ...

Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Geoscience Context: A Workshop for Faculty Teaching Geosciences and Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level part of Quantitative Skills:Community:Workshop 2002
First annual workshop bringing together mathematicians and geoscientists in order to examine various approaches to quantitative reasoning.