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Mulvey, Bridget; Bell, Randy – Science Teacher, 2012
Google Earth is an exciting way to engage students in scientific inquiry--the foundation of science education standards and reforms. The National Science Education Standards identify inquiry as an active process that incorporates questioning, gathering and analyzing data, and thinking critically about the interplay of evidence and explanations.…
Descriptors: Science Education, Earth Science, Classrooms, Plate Tectonics
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Dolphin, Glenn – Science & Education, 2009
Current high school Earth Science curricula and textbooks organize scientific content into isolated "units" of knowledge. Within this structure, content is taught, but in the absence of the context of fundamental understandings or the process of how the science was actually done to reach the conclusions. These are two key facets of scientific…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Plate Tectonics, Scientific Literacy, Grade 9
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King, Chris – School Science Review, 2001
Details an 'explanatory Earth story' on plate tectonics to show how such a 'story' can be developed in an earth science context. Presents five other stories in outline form. Explains the use of these stories as vehicles to present the big ideas of science. (DDR)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, General Science
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Bull, William B. – Journal of Geological Education, 1984
Summarizes representative quantitative tectonic-geomorphology studies made during the last century, focusing on fault-bounded mountain-front escarpments, marine terraces, and alluvial geomorphic surfaces (considering stream terraces, piedmont fault scarps, and soils chronosequences). Also suggests where tectonic-geomorphology courses may best fit…
Descriptors: College Science, Geology, Graduate Study, Higher Education
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Lambert, Richard St J. – Journal of Geological Education, 1989
Gives the background to the philosophy for the introductory teaching of global tectonics and the terrane concept. Provides a discussion of local and general considerations, the curriculum, and terrane tectonics. (RT)
Descriptors: College Science, Earth Science, Geology, Global Approach
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Chamberlain, Valerie Elaine – Journal of Geological Education, 1989
Reviews a model used in the teaching of plate tectonics which includes processes and concepts related to: terranes and the amalgamation of terranes, relative plate motion and oblique subduction, the effects of continent-continent collision, changes in plate motion, plate configuration, and the type of plate boundary. Diagrams are included.…
Descriptors: College Science, Curriculum Development, Earth Science, Geology