ED14A:
Experience-Based Learning: Enhancing Understanding by Expanding the Limits of the Classroom II

Session ID#: 5008

Monday, 15 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
102 (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Stephen A Macko, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States and James Michael Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, Canada
Primary Convener:  Stephen A Macko, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Co-Convener:  Arthur Schwarzschild, Univ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Arthur Schwarzschild, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0805 Elementary and secondary education [EDUCATION]
0810 Post-secondary education [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
0830 Teacher training [EDUCATION]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ED14A-01
Passionate Perspectives: Global Change Emersion in Southwestern Dust and Waters (Invited) (6035)
James Michael Byrne, University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, Canada and Leanne J Little, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
ED14A-02
Border to Beltway: A Formative Field Exchange Program between Two Community Colleges for Non-Traditional Students (16656)
Joshua I Villalobos, El Paso Community College, Geological Sciences Discipline, El Paso, TX, United States and Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, United States
ED14A-03
A Captive Ocean: Evaluation of Aquaculture, Fisheries Sustainabilty and Aquaria as Arks in the Setting of a Field-based Class (13607)
Stephen A Macko, Matthew T O'Connell, Heather Sullivan and Ryan Oliver, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
ED14A-04
Improving Science Literacy and Earth Science Awareness Through an Intensive Summer Research Experience in Paleobiology (20856)
Noel A. Heim, Tufts University, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Medford, MA, United States, Jennifer Saltzman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Jonathan Payne, Stanford University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Stanford, United States
ED14A-05
A Week in the Wilderness of the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont: An Outdoor Science Education Course for Graduate and Undergraduate Students (26725)
Sarah Radencic, Ryan M. Walker and Kenneth V. Anthony, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States
ED14A-06
From Texas to Alaska: Leading Hearing Impaired Elementary Students in Texas to Engage in Science of the Northern Lights Performed in Alaska. (31793)
Jörg-Micha Jahn1, Sandy Ibarra2, Michael D Pfeifer2, Marilia Samara3 and Robert Michell3, (1)Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)Sunshine Cottage School for Deaf Children, San Antonio, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
ED14A-07
Australian Seismometers in Schools: Apps, Archiving and Adventures (20553)
Natalie Balfour1, Michelle Salmon2 and Malcolm Sambridge2, (1)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (2)Australian National University, Research School of Earth Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia
ED14A-08
The SUPER Program: A Research-based Undergraduate Experience (31055)
Jessica Gilman Ernakovich1,2, Randall B Boone1,3, Claudia M Boot1, Karolien Denef1,4, Jocelyn Marie Lavallee5, John C Moore1,6 and Matthew D Wallenstein1,6, (1)Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, (3)Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (4)Central Instrument Facility, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (6)Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
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