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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Active Learning - Mark Francek; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC's Starting Point explains that active learning is a student centered approach in which the responsibility for learning is placed upon the student, often working in collaboration with classmates. Links to examples of Active Learning techniques are included on the site. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Why Use Gallery Walk? - Mark Francek; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC's Starting Point explains that the teaching technique, Gallery Walk, is useful because it promotes class discussion, higher order thinking, cooperative learning, and team building. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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What is Gallery Walk? - Mark Francek; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC's Starting Point explains how Gallery Walks engage students in more active learning and increase class participation. Instructors prepare questions and post them in different stations. Students review the questions and add comments, each team building on the last team's comments. When a group returns to the station where it started, the students synthesize all of the information and report to the rest of the class. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Gallery Walk - Mark Francek; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC's Starting Point introduces the teaching technique called Gallery Walk, which is a discussion technique for active engagement. The site provides links to information that describes Gallery Walk, reasons for using this technique, example exercises, and related references. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: The Future of Africa's Health with Technology - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about health in Africa. The questions examine the benefits, opportunities, and challenges of using handheld medical technology in Africa and whether or not the use of such technology should continue to be explored and developed. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Water Issues and the Aswan High Dam - Laura Guerin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about water issues related to Egypt's Aswan High Dam. The questions examine costs of the dam, good and bad environmental changes, as well as positive and negative impacts on the local people from construction of the dam. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Groundwater and Archaeology - Laura Guerin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about groundwater and archaeology. The questions examine causes for groundwater rising to the base of monuments and the damage this process is causing, solutions to rising groundwater problems, the significance of monuments and whether they should be saved. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Neanderthals and Modern Humans - Laura Guerin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about Neanderthals and modern humans. The questions examine Neanderthals and how they differ from modern humans, why early human ancestors dispersed from Africa, and what DNA studies tell us about human migrations and populations. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Life in the Sahara Desert - Laura Guerin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about life in the Sahara desert. The questions examine whether or not the Sahara was always a desert, animals found in the desert, and the reasons that humans go into the Sahara. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: When "Modern" Human Behavior Appeared in Early Hominids - Laura Guerin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about the appearance of modern human behavior in early hominids. The questions examine the emergence and meaning of modern human behavior, the way that beads symbolize modern human behavior and thought, and the events that cause organisms to undergo change. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Dam Removal - A Good Idea or Not? - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about dam removal. The questions examine the biological effects of dam removal, the reasoning behind dam removal, and the studies that should be conducted before, during and after dam removal. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Should Elephants be in Zoos? - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about elephants. The questions examine health problems of elephants in captivity, whether or not elephants belong in zoos or wild animal kingdoms, breeding elephants, and the importance of elephants for conservation, research, and public education. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: The "Legs" of Snakes and Whales - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about snakes and whales. The questions examine the adaptations needed to move from water to land, links between snakes and marine lizards, and the independent evolution of marine and land mammals. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Threats to Biodiversity - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about threats to biodiversity. The questions examine climate change, the impacts of pesticides, and human population growth. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Darwin's Garden - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching JiTT warm up questions about Darwin's garden. The questions examine the value of biodiversity in an ecosystem, the significance of Darwin's garden experiment, and the reasons that it took so long for modern scientists to study connections between biodiversity and ecosystem health. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Are Primates Worth Saving? - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about primates. The questions examine reasons for primates' high extinction rates and the value of primates, dead or alive. Also featured are questions about societal influence on primate policy, and the value of trying to save primates if their habitat is eventually bound to disappear. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: The Future of Global Climate - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions on the future of the global climate. The questions examine reasons the Earth's climate is warming, the Geritol solution, whether or not the Earth is warming, as well as what society should do about global warming. Educational levels: Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Activity: Life on the Moon and Mars - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC presents Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up questions about life on the Moon and Mars. The questions promote the examination of Archaea, evidence of life on Mars and protolife on the Moon, as well as what it would mean to scientists and society if life were found on Mars or the Moon. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Just-in-Time Teaching - Laura Guertin; Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC introduces Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), a combination of active learning and Internet technology. The site provides a definition of JiTT and examples of JiTT warm up exercises, as well as related links and references. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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Examples of Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) WarmUp Exercises - Cathy Manduca
This site from SERC features many examples of Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) warm up exercises. Educational levels: Graduate or professional, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division
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