MARGINS Education/Outreach Activities at the MARGINS- IFREE IBM Workshop, and Beyond Jeff Ryan, University of South Florida, For the MARGINS Education/Outreach Advisory Committee (Rosemary Hickey- Vargas, Cathy Manduca, Don Reed, Jeff Ryan, Paul Umhoefer, Geoff Abers (ex officio))
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MARGINS Education/Outreach Activities at the MARGINS-IFREE
IBM Workshop, and Beyond Jeff Ryan, University of South Florida, For the MARGINS Education/Outreach Advisory Committee (Rosemary Hickey-Vargas, Cathy Manduca, Don Reed, Jeff Ryan, Paul Umhoefer, Geoff Abers (ex officio))
• NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program Phase 1 project
• Objective: to engage the MARGINS community of researchers/educators in developing and testing Web-deliverable learning materials that reflect the multidisciplinary nature of MARGINS science (MARGINS “Mini-Lessons”). – Taking advantage of the growing, searchable
MARGINS data resources at MGDS and EarthChem, and new geospatial data visualization technologies (GeoMapApp, Google Earth, etc.).
Rationale for this effort:• Our discipline is struggling nationally (and
internationally!): BS, MS, and Ph.D program enrollments are flat to declining; geoscience departments are under threat. Fewer students are discovering the geosciences in their first two years of college (when they decide on their majors…).
• Current geoscience instruction (as expressed in current texts) does not reflect the multidisciplinary, integrative nature of cutting-edge geoscience research.
• Creating geoscience learning materials more aligned with what we do as researchers can engage more students, and will certainly prepare them better to participate in our research!
MARGINS Science in the Classroom Kickoff:• MARGINS Education
Mini-Workshop (April 7-8, 2007)– 26 participants – Produced 15 Mini-
Lessons (with 5 more under construction…)
– An objective out of this event: a thematic suite of materials based on the IBM Focus Site!