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Alignment among Environmental Programs in Higher Education: What Food-Energy-Water Nexus Concepts Are Covered in Introductory Courses?
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Lydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
Cracking the Code: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Python in an Undergraduate Earth Science Setting
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Ethan C. Campbell; Katy M. Christensen; Mikelle Nuwer; Amrita Ahuja; Owen Boram; Junzhe Liu; Reese Miller; Isabelle Osuna; Stephen C. Riser – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
Scientific programming has become increasingly essential for manipulating, visualizing, and interpreting the large volumes of data acquired in earth science research. Yet few discipline-specific instructional approaches have been documented and assessed for their effectiveness in equipping geoscience undergraduate students with coding skills. Here…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Undergraduate Students, Programming Languages, Computer Software
Examining Perspective-Taking Skills in Introductory Geoscience Students
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Gillian Goldhagen; Heather Ford; Kinnari Atit – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Despite concerted efforts aimed at improving gender diversity in the discipline, the underrepresentation of women continues to persist in the geoscience domain. Research suggests that successful completion of introductory undergraduate STEM coursework is pivotal to the retention of students in STEM major programs and that spatial skills are…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Perspective Taking, Earth Science, Natural Disasters
Changing Habits of Mind: A Phenomenological View of How a Computational Geology Course Affected Students' Geologic Numeracy
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Meghan L. Cook; Victor J. Ricchezza; Jeffrey G. Ryan; Sarah L. Sheffield; H. L. Vacher – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
A quantitative literacy course titled "Computational Geology" has been taught at the University of South Florida for over 20 years at the undergraduate level, largely by the same professor. Due to the extended course tenure, a unique opportunity presented itself to qualitatively study what the perceived broader impacts of the course were…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Cognitive Processes, Geology, Science Instruction
Worldbuilding from Tectonic First Principles: Integrating and Challenging Undergraduate Knowledge through a Course Project
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Schoenbohm, Lindsay M.; McMillan, Mitchell – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
In this integrative, team-based capstone project, students in an upper year Tectonics course built a planet of their own design from the basic concepts of plate tectonics. They created a tectonic map complete with plate boundaries, continental-ocean boundaries, motion vectors, and hot spot traces. In subsequent weeks, students produced a geologic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Plate Tectonics, Capstone Experiences, Maps