Graduate Student Committee 2021-2022

Here is an ongoing resource of aids to help you teach earth science in the classroom, compiled by DEES students.

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Workshops

Workshop on Inclusive and Culturally Competent Pedagogy in the Earth Sciences

Workshop held by Jonathan Lambert, Clara Chang, Nathan Lenssen, and Julian Spergel, PhD students and past and present CTL Teaching Fellows (January 2021)

• Workshop Google Slides

• Inclusive Pedagogy Resource Sheet (75 kb)

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Re-examining Teaching Strategies for Foundational Earth Science Topics

Workshop held by Jonathan Lambert, CTL Teaching Fellow (October 2020)

• Workshop PowerPoint (4.25 Mb)

• Workshop Debrief and Resources List (53 kb)​

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Future workshops

• Check your email for announcements on workshops held by the DEES CTL fellow.

• Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshops for graduate students

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Earth Science Community resources

• GEO REU Handbook: Running an engaging and inclusive Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program, from NCAR.

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Examples

"The Effects on Student Knowledge and Engagement When Using a Culturally Responsive Framework to Teach ASTR1010" case study

• Native Skywatchers: Indigenous Astronomy Revitalization: https://www.nativeskywatchers.com/

• Buck, Wilfred. 2012. “Atchakosuk: Ininewuk Stories of the Stars,” 13.

• Gay, Geneva. 2000. Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. First.

• Teachers College Press.

  • A great resource for culturally responsive teaching and research on its efficacy.

• Lee, Annette S. 2013. “Native Skywatchers and the Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan: Ojibwe

• Sky Star Map.” In Communicating Science: A National Conference on Science Education

• and Public Outreach, 473:29. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ASPC..473...29L.

• Tharakan, John. 2015. Indigenous knowledge systems - a rich appropriate technology resource.

• African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development 7(1): 52-57.

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Favorite pedagogical aids

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIyBpi7B-dE&ab_channel=AtlasPro

• https://app.visiblegeology.com/

• https://rockd.org/

• https://vrglaciers.wp.worc.ac.uk/wordpress/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1Qi821n-s

• https://earth.nullschool.net/

• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnUHxOSVY4G4OFbF8XL1qUg

• https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/forEducators/Start_Here.html

• https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-35.55,24.54,192/loc=-50.112,37.962

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLxpCrYdc00&list=PLDrzzwhdpdSBiMLT5TZkySriC4QUhG4Wo&index=23&ab_channel=NickHall

• https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/146/video-simulated-clouds-and-aerosols/