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Peer reviewedKusnick, Judi – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2002
Analyzes narrative essays--stories of rock formation--written by pre-service elementary school teachers. Reports startling misconceptions among preservice teachers on pebbles that grow, human involvement in rock formation, and sedimentary rocks forming as puddles as dry up, even though these students had completed a college level course on Earth…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Peer reviewedTrend, Roger – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Describes a study of preservice elementary teachers' (n=179) perceptions of geologic time. Finds that the respondents perceived events in Earth's geological past as falling into three distinct clusters: extremely ancient, less ancient, and geologically recent. Finds also that the teachers' grasp of relative time is more secure than their grasp of…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Foreign Countries, Geology, Higher Education
Peer reviewedGosselin, David C.; Macklem-Hurst, Joy L. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2002
Reports on a one semester course, "Earth Systems Science for Educators" designed to use an active learning approach to improve student knowledge of basic Earth science concepts. Reports that, based on pre- and post-course assessments of 108 elementary and middle-level education majors who took the class from 1998 to 2000, there was an average…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
