Updated Data-rich Activities to Use in your Classroom Now: The Community Contribution Tool

February 3, 2025

11 AM Pacific | 12 PM Mountain | 1 PM Central | 2 PM Eastern (1 hour)

Presenters

Sean Fox - Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Beth Pratt-Sitaula - EarthScope Consortium
Ellen Iverson - Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Sandrine Matiasek - California State University, Chico

Description

Are you interested in using data-rich teaching resources to help students build quantitative reasoning, spatial reasoning, and critical thinking skills? Or maybe you have used some of the InTeGrate or GETSI materials in your courses in the past but found that some essential information had become outdated and appeared less relevant and engaging to students. We are excited to share updates to more than 20 data-rich teaching resources that you could use in your class now.

Furthermore, to address theissue of data-rich activities becoming less robust, we developed the Community Contribution Tool (CCT), through which the community of educators can submit supplementary materials to an activity, including modifications they have made, like updated datasets, graphics, and other components. In the July 2024 EER workshop, participants updated data-rich activities in the InTeGrate andGETSI teaching collections. The webinar will review the activities already updated and how to use the CCT, which is now available for all activities hosted in the Teach The Earth collection. This webinar is designed for those who have never used InTeGrate and GETSI activities as well as for those who have used them extensively (and everyone in between). We will also have time for participants to discuss improvements to activities and the utility of a new guidance document to help ensure the robustness of new and existing data-rich activities.  Come learn how you can contribute your updates to these and other TTE activities to help keep them timely, relevant, and useful for the geoscience community.

Webinar goals

During this webinar, participants will:

• Become familiar with the array of data-rich activities that have been recently updated 
• Learn to use the Community Contribution Tool, to support the sustainability and relevance of data-rich teaching materials.
• Discuss together ways to develop and update data-rich activities that have robust data sets and sources

Resources

The following undergraduate level modules have been updated as part of the project described in this webinar:

• Resources & Environment
  • GETSI: Eyes on the Hydrosphere: Tracking Water Resources (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Critical Zone Science (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: An Ecosystem Services Approach to Water Resources (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources - Spanish Adaptation (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Humans' Dependence on Earth's Mineral Resources
  • InTeGrate: Lead in the Environment (Majors)
  • InTeGrate: Living on the Edge: Building resilient societies on active plate margins (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Mapping the Environment with Sensory Perception (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Water Sustainability in Cities (Majors)
  • InTeGrate: Interactions between Water, Earth's Surface, and Human Activity (Intro)
• Climate
  • GETSI: Ice Mass and Sea Level Changes (Intro)
  • GETSI: Understanding Our Changing Climate: Data Behind Melting Ice and Changing Sea Level (Majors)
  • InTeGrate: Climate of Change: Interactions and Feedbacks Between Water, Air and Ice (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Earth's Thermostat (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Carbon, Climate, and Energy Resources (Intro)
• Hazards
  • GETSI: Monitoring Volcanoes and Communicating Risks (Intro)
  • GETSI: GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes (Majors)
  • GETSI: Surface Process Hazards: Living with Landslides (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Living on the Edge: Building resilient societies on active plate margins (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Major Storms and Community Resilience (Intro)
• Interdisciplinary
  • GETSI: Measuring the Earth with GPS: Plate Motion and Changing Ice-Water (Intro)
  • InTeGrate: Systems Thinking (Intro)

Logistics

Duration: 1 hour
Format: Presentations will take place through a Zoom Meeting screen-sharing session. The webinar will be recorded.
Accessing the Webinar: Instructions for joining the webinar will be emailed to participants the day before the event. Learn more about accessing the webinar.
Questions? Please contact Ashley Carlson at acarlson2@carleton.edu if you have any questions about this event.