Helping students develop quantitative reasoning skills via classroom engagement with data part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Essays
Joseph T. Zume, Geography & Earth Science, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania I am a firm believer in the experiential learning doctrine. I believe that, one of the most efficient ways to help students ...

What do COVID-19, climate change, feuds and explosions have in common? part of Earth and Mind:Posts
This piece places the COVID-19 pandemic into a larger framework as an example of a runaway reinforcing feedback loop, drawing analogies to both Earth and non-Earth systems. This framework can help readers ...

Teaching Quantitative Reasoning to Promote Transferable Skills part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Essays
Kimberly Coleman, Center for Earth and Environmental Science, SUNY - Plattsburgh As an educator, I believe that critical thinking, as well as oral and written communication, teamwork, and cultural competence, are ...

"Telling Lies to Children" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and colleagues have characterized much of education as "telling lies to children." This post looks at which kinds of lies (aka simplifications) are more or less unacceptable ...

Data-Driven versus Concept-Driven Animations part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author proposes that instructional animations can be usefully subdivided into concept-driven (most common) and data-driven (only a few examples available), paralleling the subdivision of static visualizations ...

Fort Valley, GA: A Superfund Site part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Essays
Dr. Aditya Kar, , Fort Valley State University Downloadable version of this essayFort Valley, GA: A Superfund Site A group essay submitted by Daniels, Holmes and Kar, Fort Valley State University (Acrobat (PDF) ...

Sustainability at Coppin State University part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Essays
Mintesinot Jiru, , Coppin State University In March 2008, Coppin's president signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), a coalition of over 660 colleges and ...

Using hazards to engage students part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Broadening Access to the Earth and Environmental Sciences:Essays
Eric Baer, Geosciences, Highline Community College Highline Community College is located in the Puget Sound region and therefore our students live with multiple geologic hazards including earthquakes, mass ...

Attracting Students to the Geosciences with a First-Semester Dune Research Experience part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Broadening Access to the Earth and Environmental Sciences:Essays
Deanna van Dijk, Department of Geology, Geography and Environmental Studies, Calvin College × For the past three years, the First-Year Research in Earth Sciences (FYRES): Dunes project has been inviting ...

New Jersey Increases Coverage of Human/Environment Interactions in Education Standards part of Earth and Mind:Posts
New Jersey has revised their science education standards, and in the process introduced more reasoning from evidence, more use of large data sets, and more human/environment interactions.