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Halliwell, Philip; Whipple, Sarah; Bowser, Gillian – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2022
Citizen science, an emerging research tool employed worldwide, can encourage nonprofessionals to engage in scientific exploration. Additionally, the research strategy presents great potential to serve as a learning platform for students, supporting diverse contributions to science on public lands. Citizen science also has potential to encourage…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Scientific Research, Science and Society, Science Education
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Styers, Diane M. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
The abundance of freely available, scientific big data sets can facilitate discovery-based authentic science projects saving time, money, and effort. This is especially true of remotely sensed data, as there is global coverage of Earth's surface spanning several decades that can be used for a multitude of applications. In this article, I present…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Undergraduate Students, College Science, Active Learning
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Sinclair, K. E.; Marshall, S. J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2009
Five high schools in British Columbia, Canada, participated in an atmospheric sciences project during the winter of 2006-07 established by researchers at the University of Calgary. Precipitation gauges and temperature and relative humidity probes were installed at each school and students were asked to collect a water sample each day that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Instruction, Climate, Change
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George, Linda A.; Becker, William G. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2003
Explains a collaborative research project in which students study a phenomenon known as the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect which is a measure of the near-surface air temperature contrast between urbanized and adjoining rural areas. Includes background content and literature review, preliminary studies, development of research questions,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Geology, Heat, Higher Education