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Introduction to the Earth System
explores the essential question of what the Earth system is, and how you can use inquiry methods to teach about it.
Course Objectives
- Develop
content knowledge about Earth as a system
- Introduce
inquiry-based learning models
- Introduce
a media-rich learning environment to use with students
- Understand
and utilize the scientific process
Course Syllabus
Session 1:
Energy
Transfer and Earth System Cycles
Participants look at Earth as a system and explore how this system
functions to create the physical world around us.
Session 2:
Inquiry into Earth System Science
Participants examine Earth system science in the context of research
about how people learn and inquiry-based instructional models.
Additional Course Information
- 15 contact hours
- First in a series of four courses
for teachers of earth and space science
- Other courses in the series:
- A full survey course (45 contact hours),
Teaching Earth and Space Science, is also available.
We recommend course modules be taken in order. If this is not possible,
it's important to have a basic knowledge of the content and methodology
described in the preceding courses.
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