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Erin P. Argyilan; Kristin T. Huysken; Robert Votaw – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Field-based education is an integral component of undergraduate geoscience curricula and provides educational and social benefits associated with enhanced learning. But field excursions can too often end up as simple show-and-tell events and fall short of implementing effective teaching practices and achieving desired student learning gains.…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Commuter Colleges, Geology, Field Trips
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Bateman, Kathryn M.; Ham, Joy; Barshi, Naomi; Tikoff, Basil; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2023
Spatial skills are embedded in all aspects of the geosciences. The teaching and learning of spatial skills has been a challenging, but vital, endeavor. To support student learning of spatial skills in undergraduate courses, we designed scaffolds for spatially dependent content in a mid-level geoscience course using playdough to allow students to…
Descriptors: Geology, Science Instruction, Course Content, Spatial Ability
Ruberto, Thomas Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In-person field education through exploration is fundamental in geoscience, but equal access is limited by time, cost, safety, distance, physical ability, and instructor variability. Technology advances allow students to explore pedagogically rich but inaccessible places through virtual field trips (VFTs). Studies show that VFTs result in…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Computer Simulation, Field Trips, Learning Experience
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Seijas, Nahia; Uskola, Araitz – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Citizens show misunderstandigs about groundwater that hinder making informed decisions about problems like the deterioration of aquifers. Science education should address this, including modelling practices about the aquifer model. Physical models (PM) have been extensively used in geology teaching, but students rarely construct, evaluate or…
Descriptors: Geology, Science Instruction, Water, Water Quality
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Jolley, Alison; Hampton, Samuel J.; Brogt, Erik; Kennedy, Ben M.; Fraser, Lyndon; Knox, Angus – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
This study compares the field experience and development of sense of place (in this case, human attributed meanings and attachments to the field area) in geoscience students on three separate course sections of a six-day introductory geological mapping field trip. Students stayed in a small farm station within their 4 km[superscript 2] field area,…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Science Instruction, Geology, Maps
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Dolphin, Glenn; Dutchak, Alex; Karchewski, Brandon; Cooper, Jon – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
Recent literature has demonstrated the importance of fieldwork in geology. However, as resources become scarce, field experiences are often targeted for cuts. This was the case at the University of Calgary when massive enrollments placed a tremendous burden on resources. In courses throughout, field trips and other excursions were eliminated,…
Descriptors: Geology, Computer Simulation, Field Trips, Simulated Environment
Hendricks, Julie E.; Atchison, Christopher L.; Feig, Anthony D. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
In 2014, the Geological Society of America sponsored an Accessible Field Trip, designed to demonstrate best practices in accommodating a wide variety of participants with disabilities during a field experience. During the trip, an aide was deployed to assist two student participants with sensory disabilities, one with low vision and the other with…
Descriptors: Geology, Disabilities, Teaching Methods, Field Trips
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Fairfax, Emily; Brown, Megan R. M. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2019
People with disabilities are chronically underrepresented in many geoscience departments across the country. There are a number of proposed reasons why this under-representation persists, one of which is lack of instructor training in designing accessible curriculum and making high-quality accommodations. This not only puts students with…
Descriptors: Geology, College Science, Undergraduate Students, Science Laboratories
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Bursztyn, Natalie; Pederson, Joel; Shelton, Brett; Walker, Andrew; Campbell, Todd – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2015
Declining interest and low persistence is well documented among undergraduate students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in the United States. For geoscience, field trips are important attractors to students, however with high enrollment courses and increasing costs they are becoming rare. We propose in this concept paper that the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Field Trips
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Todd, Carrie E. Davis; Goeke, Elizabeth R. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
Capstone experiences are typically the culmination of an undergraduate program and allow students to integrate their content knowledge with communication and technical skills, many of which are desirable in the job market and graduate school. Learner-centered teaching fits well with a capstone course because it requires students to be more engaged…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Student Centered Learning, Geology, Curriculum
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Esteves, Helena; Ferreira, Paulo; Vasconcelos, Clara; Fernandes, Isabel – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013
Recognizing the relevance that fieldwork and field trips have in the teaching of geosciences and related learning processes, this study presents two geological fieldwork studies that were established with Portuguese secondary school students. Both studies were focused on geoscience content knowledge, and attempted to increase environmental…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, Learning Processes
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Niemitz, Matthew; Slough, Scott; Peart, Leslie; Klaus, Ann.; Leckie, R. Mark; St. John, Kristen – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
The use of interactive virtual expeditions in classroom learning environments is an effective means to engage learners in understanding science as an inquiry process, infusing current research and relevant science into the classroom, and positively affecting learner attitudes towards science as a process and a career. A comparative analysis of the…
Descriptors: Interaction, Comparative Analysis, Scientists, Teaching Methods
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Kowal, Philip B. – Science Teacher, 1995
Discusses the utility of educational Earth science field trips to local, undeveloped sites that demonstrate the characteristics of the surface of the Earth. Outlines the process that teachers can use to evaluate a potential field trip site. Provides notes taken for one lesson plan during a site evaluation. (LZ)
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Trips, Geology
Harrell, Burt – Audiovisual Instr, 1970
Described is a series of integrated slide and tape presentations intended to replace field trips in the high school science curriculum. (LS)
Descriptors: Biology, Field Trips, Geology, Instructional Design
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Darby, Dennis A.; Burckle, Lloyd H. – Journal of Geological Education, 1975
Describes a field trip to the Bermuda Islands, for which students chase the focus of the problem, each investigated methods used, and evaluation of results. (CP)
Descriptors: College Science, Field Trips, Geology, Higher Education
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