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Teaching Deep Earth Science Consider the Opportunities

Explore the possibilities of integrating Deep Earth science into geoscience curricula and discover effective instructional resources. This workshop will discuss learning goals, assessment of outcomes, available resources, and ways to organize and disseminate them. Join us to enhance the teaching of Deep Earth science and make a broader impact in the geoscience community.

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Teaching Deep Earth Science Consider the Opportunities

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  1. Teaching Deep Earth Science Consider the Opportunities David Mogk Montana State University

  2. The Short Message • As you do your work at the Deep Earth workshop • Think broadly about ways to integrate your good science into effective instructional resources. • We can help aggregate, organize and disseminate to the entire geoscience community

  3. Graduate or Upper Division Undergraduate? Don’t wait! Too few students, too late in the curriculum, not big enough impact Geology “core” courses? Mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics? Opportunities abound to infuse Deep Earth science across the curriculum. What is essential in the training of new geoscientists? Introductory Geology/Earth Science? Excitement of new discoveries Demonstration of how Science is done Relevance to modern life Recruitment? The Interested Public? Where is Deep Earth science taught in the geoscience curriculum?

  4. What is Needed to Teach Deep Earth Science? • What are the learning goals, skills, learning outcomes? Assessment of learning outcomes? • What resources are “out there”? • What resources can we “harvest”, what is missing? • What new resources can we recruit? • How can these resources best be organized for the benefit of all? • Discovery, reviewing and vetting of resources • Organizing resources, placing them in context • Making direct links between Science and pedagogy • Who is teaching about the Deep Earth? • How can we help those teaching “out of field”?

  5. Integrating exciting new Science about Deep Earth…. • Data, data tools, data products • Instrumentation (tutorials, demonstrations) • Every journal article could produce an accompanying problem set (students replicate or simulate research) ….With instructional resources from On the Cutting Edge • Collections of teaching activities, problem sets, laboratory exercises, favorite URLs, articles used in instruction, course syllabus…. • Information technology: aggregating, organizing, disseminating, resources in multiple contexts, repurposing,…. • Links to extensive resources on teaching with data, visualizations, assessment, research on learning… • NSF Criterion II “Broader Impacts”

  6. From Literature to Problem Set

  7. Tutorials on Methods—Synchrotron or Multi-Anvil anyone? Shear wave splitting and receiver functions?

  8. “Hot Topics” for Directed StudyCollections of resources for exploration and discovery

  9. Resources at SERC Available to Help Using Data in the Classroom http://serc.carleton.edu/3461 Teaching with Visualizations http://serc.carleton.edu/5848 Teaching Quantitative Skills http://serc.carleton.edu/3981 Pedagogy in Action http://serc.carleton.edu/12241 Assessing Student Learning http://serc.carleton.edu/9142

  10. Developing New Teaching Activities “Mine” good ideas about the exciting Science Exchange ideas via discussion threads Small group workspaces Web-authoring and conference call-in Review and revision

  11. RECONVENE 1:00 Central Time Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon: Upper Mantle Tomography Beneath the Western U.S. and Clues on the Fate of Farallon Slab Subducted During the Laramide

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