Earth Science

Ocean Tracks: Bringing Large-Scale Marine Science Data to and Beyond the Classroom

Biology
Cyberlearning
Earth Science
Educational Technology
Environmental Science
Science
Technology
High School
Post-secondary
Activity
Digital Media
Website
Day
Tues

Participants engage in marine data investigations using the Ocean Tracks Web interface and analysis tools, offer feedback, and discuss possible synergies with other DR K–12 programs.

Date/Time
-
2014 Session Types
Feedback Session (Work in Post-development)
Presenters
Josephine Louie
Amy Busey
Session Materials
DRK12 PI mtg slides 2014-08-05 FINAL.pdf

Digital, large-scale scientific data have become broadly available in recent decades, and analyzing data, identifying patterns, and extracting useful information have become gateway skills to full participation in the 21st century workforce. Yet, pre-college classrooms are falling short in preparing students for this world and are missing opportunities to harness the power of Big Data to engage students in scientific learning. To address this issue, scientists, educators, and researchers at Education Development Center, Inc.

Encouraging Students to Think Critically About Earth's Systems and Sustainability

Earth Science
Science
Middle
High

This article describes how the NSF funded High-Adventure Science: Earth’s Systems and Sustainability (HAS:ESS) project is developing online curriculum modules for middle school and high school classroom use. The curricula engage students with interactive computational models and analysis of real-world data as they build scientific reasoning and argumentation skills, focused around core ideas in Earth Science with particular emphasis on how humans affect Earth’s systems. Currently available modules focus on climate change and on fresh water availability.

Author/Presenter

Amy Pallant

Year
2013
Resource(s)
Amy Pallant - 2013 - Encouraging Students to Think Critically About Earth's Systems and Sustainability.pdf

Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sedimentary Geology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology

Event Date
-
Sponsoring Organization
Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
Associated Dates and Deadlines
February 17, 2014

To learn more, visit http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/sedimentary/SGP2014/application.html.

Discipline/Topic
Earth Science
Science
Event Type
Workshop

Teaching about Risk and Resilience: Sea Level Rise, Flooding, and Earthquakes

Event Date
-
Sponsoring Organization
Science Education Resource Center (SERC)
Associated Dates and Deadlines
March 1, 2014

To learn more, visit http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/risk_resilience/index.html.

Discipline/Topic
Earth Science
Science
Event Type
Workshop

Exploring the Unknown

Astronomy
Earth Science
Science
High
Access Link
http://learningcenter.nsta.org/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/tst12_079_03_60
Author/Presenter

Amy Pallant

Sarah Pryputniewicz

Hee-Sun Lee

Lead Organization(s)
Concord Consortium
Year
2012
Short Description

This article describes The Concord Consortium's High-Adventure Science Project, which brings frontier science into the classroom, allowing students to explore questions in Earth and space science that scientists are currently investigating.

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