Transcript Montana State University Teaching Climate Change

Teaching Climate Change:
Lessons From the Past
On the Cutting Edge
Professional Development Program
for Geoscience Faculty
Allan Ashworth, North Dakota State University
Sheri Fritz, University of Nebraska
Cathy Whitlock, Montana State University
Dave Mogk, Montana State University
THANK YOU- National Science Foundation,
Division of Undergraduate Education,
CCLI-National Dissemination
 National Association of Geoscience
Teachers (NAGT)
 AMQUA
 INQUA
 Karin Kirk
(without whom this workshop would not
be possible)
 All the participants for your interest
and contributions.
On the Cutting Edge
Program aims & components
 Improving undergraduate geoscience
education through supporting faculty in
improving content and instruction
 A synergistic, integrated multi-year series of
workshops
 A website to support workshops and reach
the broader geoscience community
 An expanding community of geoscience
educators with a strong and diverse
leadership
 Research on what faculty need, how
faculty work, optimizing impacts
We all need help…
 Staying current in our science
 Linking science content to effective teaching (and
assessing)
 Many faculty teach “out of specialty”;
 How do we find:
 Classroom-ready activities
 Thematic resource collections on special topics
 Networks—dialogue, support, forum for community
input and advice
 What Works???
 Active learning
 Using Data, Visualizations (used appropriately!)
 Projects, case studies, research-like experiences…
 We’ll explore all this and more at this workshop and beyond
http://serc.carleton.edu
Emerging topics workshops
 Move new science
content and teaching
methods into
mainstream
 Brings together
researchers, educators
 2 per year
 Examples:
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Geology and Public Policy
Geology & Human Health
Biocomplexity
Teaching with Visualizations
Observing and Assessing
Student Learning
Teaching “X” workshops
 Explore teaching “X” effectively in
the classroom, lab, and field
 Teaching Petrology (03)
 Teaching Structural Geology (04)
 Teaching Hydrogeology (05)
 Teaching Sedimentary Geology (06)
 70-80 faculty/workshop (> 10% of
those teaching “X” in the US)
Web resources
Integrated, searchable topical resource
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/
Web-based resources, activities, services…
Web-based resources, activities, services…
Web resources to support your teaching;
Information/data to help develop new activities….
“Faceted Searching” to help you find the right
activity for your class…
We’ve made a start, but we need your help…
•Identifying additional resources
•Creating new activities
Just imagine what a great teaching collection we’ll have if
everyone submits 1 or 2 new exercises!!! We know you
all have a cool activity to share….
We’ve made a start, but we need your help…
•You provide the activity…
•We create dynamic webpages that are discoverable
on the web, searchable on the website….
Just imagine what a great teaching collection we’ll have if
everyone submits 1 or 2 new exercises!!! We know you
all have a cool activity to share….
About this Workshop
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New Friends
New Ideas
New Questions
New Strategies
Informal and interactive
This workshop is just a start…
 Build a network of colleagues
interested in improving teaching
climate change
 Sharing resources and ideas via the
website and listserv
 Follow-on activities; theme sessions at
GSA, AGU, etc.
 Reach out and invite a colleague to
join us
 Contribute!
To Start: Round Table Discussion
What are the goals of
teaching Climate Change in
Earth science courses?
Groups organized by: introductory courses,
courses for majors, multi-disciplinary
courses.
 What content, topics and skills are
essential?
 What are the opportunities in different
learning environments?
 What teaching strategies have you
used that are particularly effective?