1. Goals for Learning in the Geosciences
We are seeking the goals that are common and essential to learning about the geosciences at all levels including
Content
Skills
Process (what does one need to do an extended project)
Attitudes
These goals need to be stated in a fashion that supports
The educator
The learner
Assessment
Research agenda

2. A Transformation
We celebrate the attitudes and understanding that students bring to learning and seek to transform their expectations of what they will learn, their understanding of how geoscientists think, and their view of the power and role of science and its limitations.

3. Developing Scientific Capability
Thinking like a geoscientist includes
understanding the nature and process of science
the roles of evidence and theory

4. Thinking Like a Geoscientist
How to use observations of nature to infer the past
Work in the field, observing natural experiments
How to create and use complex, multi-step models
How to draw rational conclusions from incomplete data
Understanding time including rates, scales, and the relationship between the current state and the time integrated history
Multi-dimensional representation of data
Map understanding, 3-d visualization
Quantitative skills???
Goals vary for different audiences

5. Special Opportunities
Teaching science in a relevant context
Bringing science together with social issues
Providing a context for the use of geoscience and other science thinking
Integration of the science curriculum/synergistic roles for the disciplines.
Can integrate professional research into education because r esearch questions are accessible to high school/undergraduate students