Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
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The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a grassroots, community-based effort involving teachers, students, and scientists working together to create a library of educational resources and services to support Earth system science education. DLESE supports Earth system science education by providing access to high-quality collections of educational resources; access to Earth data sets and imagery; support services to help educators and learners effectively create, use, and share educational resources; and communication networks to facilitate interactions and collaborations across all dimensions of Earth system education.
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Council on Undergraduate Research
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) strives to support and promote high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship. Links to information about CUR, membership, upcoming event registration, meetings, programs, publications, divisions, governmant issues, and FAQs are provided on this home page. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, Graduate or professional
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Teaching with Visualizations - Robert MacKay
This Starting Point module discusses the use of visualizations in teaching geoscience at the college level. The resources provides information on why visualizations are useful in geoscience instruction as well as providing links to visualization software packages and tips on how to determine which one is right for a particular use. There are also examples of how to use visualizations in class. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division
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Developing Questions for Gallery Walk to Engage Higher Order Thinking - Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC's Starting Point explains best practices for developing Gallery Walk questions which involves preparing questions based on a lecture's central concept, issue, or debate. A variety of questions can be used but the technique seems to work best with higher order questions relating to analysis, evaluation, and synthesis; using Bloom's Hierarchy provides a guide for wording questions at various levels of abstraction. Examples of various types of questions including comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are also included. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Cooperative Learning - Cathy Manduca; Rebecca Teed
This site from SERC's Starting Point features cooperative learning, a method that incorporates interdependence, interaction, individual accountability, interpersonal skills, and group processing. Information and links on reasons this is an efficient teaching method, how to include it in the classroom, related resources, and examples are also included. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Visualization of Model Output - Cathy Manduca
This Starting Point page provides links to examples of visualizing output from mathematical or statistical models. This has proven to be one of the best ways to introduce introductory geoscience students to the results and behavior of sophisticated models. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Sea Floor Spreading 1 - Cathy Manduca
This SERC Starting Point site presents an introductory tutorial on Excel for students with no prior Excel experience. The tutorial is based on the geodynamics Model equation for ocean depth around a sea-floor spreading center. This site explains learning goals, context for use, teaching tips and materials, assessment, and offers resources related to the exercise. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Using USGS Streamflow Data to Design Class Projects - Tim Lutz; Cathy Manduca
In this activity, students analyze data from a single gage or watershed. They learn or practice basic skills in Excel such as importing data, applying formulas, creating charts, and adding trend lines. The students then assemble and analyze their individual results collectively in order to discover and discuss new issues that span multiple gages or watersheds. To conclude the project, results are presented and discussed in class. This Starting Point page was submitted by Tim Lutz of West Chester University. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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What is Excel - Cathy Manduca
This Starting Point page provides an introduction to Microsoft Excel. The site features information on the usefulness of spreadsheets in geoscience education, as well as links to tutorials and student activities designed for learning Excel basics in a geoscience context. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Data Visualization Links - Cathy Manduca
This Starting Point page provides a broad collection of data visualization links for atmosphere, biosphere, climate system, energy and cycles, Earth history and time, Earth's surface, human dimensions, hydrosphere and cryosphere, oceans, solar system and solid Earth. A link to WorldWatcher software, which features free software for analysis and visualization of a large variety of Earth Science data, is also provided. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division, Informal education
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Gallery Walk Questions on Atmosphere Composition - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about the composition of the atmosphere. These questions encourage students to examine atmospheric and greenhouse gases, human influences on climate change, proposed new products to minimize UV exposure, and ways people currently protect themselves from UV exposure. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions on Air Pressure and Wind - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about air pressure and wind. These questions encourage students to examine surface air pressure, temperature, air density, incoming solar radiation, gravity, pressure gradient, Coriolis and friction forces, unequal heating, making wind forecasts, earth's semi-permanent pressure zones, and drawing flow directions and pressure cells. Other questions address the origination of land-sea breezes, mountain-valley breezes, katabatic winds, and regional monsoons. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions on Weather and Climate - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about weather and climate. These questions encourage students to examine the effects of weather on transportation, agricultural, forestry, and banking systems. Other questions explore typical temperature and wind direction patterns, cold fronts, warm fronts, climates in relation to latitude, altitude, continentality, weather in music, and heat related illness. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions about the Biosphere - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about the biosphere. These questions encourage students to examine adaptations life forms undertake to survive in deep sea vents, Antarctic dry valleys, caves, hypersaline environments, thermal hot springs, and deep Earth habitats. Potential questions also examine nutrient cycling in various ecosystems, the impacts of increasing urban land at the expense of forests and grasslands, and how vegetation patterns are impacted by climate, topography, soil, humans, geology, and time. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate upper...
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Gallery Walk Questions on Atmospheric Moisture - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about atmospheric moisture. These questions encourage students to examine dew point, relative humidity, condensation, precipitation, snow/liquid ratios, heat index, air temperature, acid rain, and how to analyze a weather map. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions on Map Reading - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions for an activity about map reading. These questions encourage students to examine lines of latitude and longitude, read representative fractions, identify landforms on topographic maps, ways to use road, contour, bedrock, soil, satellite, and aerial maps, and how to critique maps. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions on Weathering and Mass Wasting - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about weathering and mass wasting. The questions encourage students to examine soil creep, weathering, erosion, and property evaluation methods for weathering and mass wasting. The activity also uses soil, topographic, and bedrock maps to locate a new subdivision. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Weather Map Interpretation - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about weather map interpretation. Students explore several weather parameters including fronts, pressure cells, and precipitation. Groups synthesize various weather variables, create a weather forecast, and present the material in either an oral or written assignment. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions on Earth's Radiation Balance - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about the Earth's radiation balance. The questions encourage the examination of radiation wavelength, conduction, convection, latent heat, radiation, advection, energy exchanges between the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, the electromagnetic spectrum, and variables (incoming solar radiation, scattering, refraction, albedo, etc) that influence different environments. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions on Soil Morphology - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about soil morphology. Students explain how the soil forming factors of climate, vegetation, topography, parent material, and time contribute to soil characteristics from various soil locations. Groups may present their analysis as either an oral or written assignment. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk Questions about Climate - Cathy Manduca; Mark Francek
This site from SERC's Starting Point presents sample Gallery Walk questions about climate. Questions help students examine atmospheric constituents (water vapor, carbon dioxide, stratospheric ozone, clouds, and dust), pollutants (chlorofluorocarbons, carbon dioxide, sulphur oxides, and particulates), climates in relation to latitude, altitude and mountains, climographs, and temperature patterns. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level at which students are engaged, using Bloom's Taxonomy. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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