Teaching Deep Earth Science Consider the Opportunities Teaching Deep Earth Science Consider the Opportunities David Mogk Montana State University

The Short Message   As you do your work at the Deep Earth workshop   Think broadly about ways to integrate your good science into effective instructional resources.   We can help aggregate, organize and disseminate to the entire geoscience community

Where is Deep Earth science taught in the geoscience curriculum?   Graduate or Upper Division Undergraduate?   Don’t wait! Too few students, too late in the curriculum, not big enough impact   Geology “core” courses?   Mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics?   Opportunities abound to infuse Deep Earth science across the curriculum.   What is essential in the training of new geoscientists?   Introductory Geology/Earth Science?   Excitement of new discoveries   Demonstration of how Science is done   Relevance to modern life   Recruitment?   The Interested Public?

  What are the learning goals, skills, learning outcomes? Assessment of learning outcomes?   What resources are “out there”?   What resources can we “harvest”, what is missing?   What new resources can we recruit?   How can these resources best be organized for the benefit of all?   Discovery, reviewing and vetting of resources   Organizing resources, placing them in context   Making direct links between Science and pedagogy   Who is teaching about the Deep Earth?   How can we help those teaching “out of field”? What is Needed to Teach Deep Earth Science?

Integrating exciting new Science about Deep Earth….   Data, data tools, data products   Instrumentation (tutorials, demonstrations)   Every journal article could produce an accompanying problem set (students replicate or simulate research) ….With instructional resources from On the Cutting Edge   Collections of teaching activities, problem sets, laboratory exercises, favorite URLs, articles used in instruction, course syllabus….   Information technology: aggregating, organizing, disseminating, resources in multiple contexts, repurposing,….   Links to extensive resources on teaching with data, visualizations, assessment, research on learning…   NSF Criterion II “Broader Impacts”

From Literature to Problem Set

Tutorials on Methods— Synchrotron or Multi-Anvil anyone? Shear wave splitting and receiver functions? Tutorials on Methods— Synchrotron or Multi-Anvil anyone? Shear wave splitting and receiver functions?

“Hot Topics” for Directed Study Collections of resources for exploration and discovery “Hot Topics” for Directed Study Collections of resources for exploration and discovery

Resources at SERC Available to Help Resources at SERC Available to Help Using Data in the Classroom Using Data in the Classroom Teaching with Visualizations Teaching Quantitative Skills Pedagogy in Action Assessing Student Learning

Developing New Teaching Activities Developing New Teaching Activities  “Mine” good ideas about the exciting Science  Exchange ideas via discussion threads  Small group workspaces  Web-authoring and conference call-in  Review and revision

RECONVENE RECONVENE 1:00 Central Time Gene Humphreys, University of Oregon: Upper Mantle Tomography Beneath the Western U.S. and Clues on the Fate of Farallon Slab Subducted During the Laramide