165 Geoscience Education II: Issues in Undergraduate Education

Tuesday, 4 November 2003
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  AN IMPRACTICAL IDEALIST’S JOURNEY INTO TEACHING FRESHMAN NON-SCIENCE MAJORS AND THE THEORY OF EARTH
  Abhijit Basu, Indiana University - Bloomington Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN
  67759 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:45 PM
  MATH ROCKS! LINKING PHYSICAL GEOLOGY WITH A MATHEMATICS COURSE TO IMPROVE STUDENT LEARNING
  Michael Phillips, Lostant, IL and Cheryl Hobneck, Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, IL
  67356 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:00 PM
  "IT'S JUST A THEORY": DEVELOPING AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A COMMON ENGLISH USE OF THEORY AND A SCIENTIFIC THEORY, USING MT. RAINIER
  Bonnie J. Brunkhorst, California State Univ San Bernardino, Riverside, CA and Diane L. Ramirez, Univ of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  64591 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:15 PM
  TEACHING INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGY: INCORPORATING STUDENT PREFERENCES IN THE CLASSROOM TO MAKE LEARNING MORE MEANINGFUL
  Stacey A. Hundley, The Ohio State Univ / Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH
  61500 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:30 PM
  TEACHING GEOLOGY THROUGH THE NARRATIVE VOICE
  Sarah Andrews, Sebastopol, N/A
  62625 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:45 PM
  USING NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE IN GEOSCIENCE CLASSROOMS
  Mary E. Savina, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
  65387 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:00 PM
  EARTH SCIENCES AT THE BRITISH COLUMBIA OPEN UNIVERSITY
  David Huntley, British Columbia Open Univ, Burnaby, N/A and Steven Earle, British Columbia Open Univ, Burnaby, N/A
  64185 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:15 PM
  CREATING A DYNAMIC FACULTY-STUDENT FEEDBACK LOOP WITH SYNCHRONOUS AND ASYNCHRONOUS ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGIES IN A LARGE ENROLLMENT INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGY CLASS
  Charlotte J. Mehrtens, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT and Wendy Verrei-Berenback, Univ of Vermont, Burlington, N/A
  64441 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:45 PM
  INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGY: AN ASSESSMENT OF ONLINE, COMPRESSED VIDEO, AND SHORT FIELD-BASED LAB COURSES
  Julian W. Green, Univ of South Carolina - Spartanburg, Spartanburg, SC
  60989 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:00 PM
  A DYNAMIC EARTH LAB GOES DYNAMIC: UTILIZING AN ON-LINE LABORATORY IN A CLASSROOM SETTING
  Susan L. Klosterman, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Katherine R. Schoenenberger, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH and Steven Roberts, Univ of Dayton, Dayton, OH
  58929 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:15 PM
  TAKING GNEISS ROCKS FOR GRANITE: ACTIVE LEARNING ON GEOSCIENCE FIELD TRIPS IN AND AROUND VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
  Brett H. Gilley, Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC and Kevin J. Cameron, Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC and Tom Gleeson, Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC
  67661 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:30 PM
  HUMAN IMPACT ON THE GREAT CATARQUI MARSH: INTEGRATING RESEARCH AND UNDERGRADUATE LEARNING
  Victoria Remenda, Queen's Univ, Kingston, ON and Robin Harrap, Queen's Univ, Kingston, ON
  65463 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:45 PM
  DISCOVER OUR EARTH: A DISCOVERY-BASED LEARNING TOOL
  Carrie Brindisi, Institute for the Study of the Continents, Ithaca, NY and Dogan Seber, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA and Alexandra Moore, Institute for the Study of the Continents, Ithaca, NY
  61683 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:00 PM
  INTERACTIVE VISUAL/GRAPHIC EXERCISES AND PUZZLES AS TOOLS FOR GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION--USE OF THE GRFPIX SYSTEM
  W. Britt Leatham, California State Univ San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA and Manoj Kanoi, Amvik Infosys LTD, San Bernardino, CA and Amit Dhir, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
  67280 (Technical Sessions)
• 5:15 PM
  A DIGITAL FIELD CAMP: APPLYING EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH GEOLOGIC FIELD MAPPING
  Mark F. Manone, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ and Paul J. Umhoefer, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ and Thomas D. Hoisch, Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ
  67720 (Technical Sessions)