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From Intro Geo to GIS:
Barbara TewksburyHamilton [email protected]
Examples from Creative Faculty Across the Country for Teaching Undergraduate
Geoscience Courses Using Planetary Data
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Why incorporate planetary data?
New (exciting! exotic!) examplesStudent learning improves when
students are engaged/hookedPractice observation and data
analysis skills in new planetary environmentStudents learn best when they apply
what they know to analyze/synthesize/interpret, rather than just learn about a topic.
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Why incorporate planetary data?
Reflect on their own planet What is different? How much of a difference do the
conditions of our own planetary experiment make?
Students learn more when they reflect on what they know
Leaps in understanding of their own planet
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Wealth of available data
Difficult to imagine an undergraduate geoscience course for which relevant extraterrestrial data are not available and easily accessible
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The challenge
Coming up with a good ideaFinding the dataDeveloping the
assignment/activityStrategies
Adapt/adoptDesign your own
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Adapt or adopt
Doesn’t reinvent the wheel!Bug colleaguesUse On the Cutting Edge web
resourcesserc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops
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Aspects in common
All of the activities described here:Go beyond teaching students about
planetsInvolve students in more than
knowledge acquisitionHave students do geology using
planetary dataPromotes learning and “Ah-ha”
insights
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From an intro geo course
Audeliz Matias, Empire State Coll.Teaching relative age interpretation
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From a geomorph course
Devon Burr, University of TennesseeInterp. of drainage patterns on Titan
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From an intro course
Tracy Gregg, University at BuffaloLanding site selection, Mars; 3 teams
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From a GIS course
Brian Hynek, Univ. of ColoradoLanding site selection; ArcMap
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From a hydro course
Arwen Vidal, U. of ColoradoArcGIS ArcHydro Tools
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From an intro geo course
Eric Grosfils, Pomona CollegeWhat if Amboy Crater had erupted on
the Moon? Mars?
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From a seds/geomorph course
Devon Burr, University of TennesseeAnalysis of flow regime in Athabasca V.
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From a structural geology course
Moi; estimating regional extension in Ceraunius Fossae
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Other examples
Geochem/petrology: Mars or Moon spectroscopic data to determine mineralogy (Laurel Goodell & T.C. Onstott, Princeton)
Global change course: analyze matter/energy cycles on Mars (Eric Pyle, JMU)
Teaching geologic mapping using Venus Magellan SAR data (Vicki Hansen, UMN, Duluth)
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Designing your own
Need an idea? Mine the literature.Helps in locating dataGSA Today article on pit crater
chains on Mars (Ferrill et al., 2004)Hogan (MS&T): structural geo
course – normal faults on a planet other than Earth
Tewks: intro course – origin of depressions in Libyan Desert north of Tazerbo well field.
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Designing your own
Primary strategy – what are you trying to accomplish?Hook/engagementPersonal application, analysis,
and problem-solvingReflection on significance
Focus beyond teaching them about the planets.
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Developing your own
Online resources at On the Cutting Edge serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops Effective teaching strategies focused on
student learning, not just information transfer
Assessment strategies to figure out whether what you did worked to improve student learning
Course design strategies for accomplishing course goals through effective assignments
Submit your own activities!