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Student and Public Perceptions of Stormwater Runoff and Its Impact on Public Health in a Southern California Coastal Community
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Julia A. Domenech; Renee M. Clary – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
Ventura, California's 2023 winter storm activity underscored the impact that runoff has on recreational water quality and public health. To examine public perception of stormwater runoff, coastal water quality, and community decision-making toward recreating in polluted water, an online survey of the Ventura River watershed community determined…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Public Opinion, Public Health, Water
Alignment among Environmental Programs in Higher Education: What Food-Energy-Water Nexus Concepts Are Covered in Introductory Courses?
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Lydia Horne; Amanda Manzanares; Nicholas Babin; Emily A. Royse; Lee Arakawa; Eunice Blavascunas; Lisa Doner; Daniel Druckenbrod; Ennea Fairchild; Meghann Jarchow; Barry R. Muchnick; Prajjwal Panday; Denielle Perry; Rebecca Thomas; Anne Toomey; Brian H. Tucker; Camille Washington-Ottombre; Shirley Vincent; Steven W. Anderson; Chelsie Romulo – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Interdisciplinary environmental and sustainability (IES) programs are different from other fields because they focus on a complex integration of humanities, social, and natural sciences concepts centered on the interactions of coupled human and natural systems. The interdisciplinary nature of IES programs does not lend itself to traditional…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Higher Education
Connecting Chemistry Concepts with Environmental Context Using Student-Built pH Sensors
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Seroy, Sasha K.; Zulmuthi, Hanis; Grünbaum, Daniel – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2020
Educational research supports incorporating active engagement into K-12 education using authentic STEM experiences. While there are discipline-specific resources to provide students with such experiences, there are limited transdisciplinary opportunities that integrate engineering education and technological skill-building to contextualize core…
Descriptors: High School Students, Secondary School Science, Chemistry, Scientific Concepts
Integrating Geoscience and Sustainability: Examining Socio-Techno-Ecological Relationships within Content Designed to Prepare Teachers
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Hale, Annie E.; Shelton, Catharyn C.; Richter, Jennifer; Archambault, Leanna M. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2017
Coupling the study of sustainability with geoscience may enable students to explore science in a more sophisticated way by examining the social-technological-ecological relationships that exist between human-nonhuman and flora-fauna-land interactions. Elementary educators are a population capable of making these issues come to life for today's…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Sustainability, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
College Students' Conceptions of the Role of Rivers in Canyon Formation
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Sexton, Julie M. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
Rivers are important surficial geologic processes that shape Earth's landscape. Students' conceptions of river features and processes serve as a foundation for their learning of new river concepts. Despite the importance of rivers and students' conceptions of them, little research has focused on identifying students' river conceptions. This study…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Natural Resources, Earth Science
Engaging Students in the Pacific and beyond Using an Inquiry-Based Lesson in Ocean Acidification
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Gorospe, Kelvin D.; Fox, Bradley K.; Haverkort-Yeh, Roxanne D.; Tamaru, Clyde S.; Rivera, Malia Ana J. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013
We present a hands-on, inquiry-based activity exploring how CO[subscript 2] input to seawater affects the skeletons of several species of reef-building corals and other marine organisms by testing for changes in pH and calcium ion concentrations. Originally developed to inspire and recruit high school students in the state of Hawai'i into the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Inquiry, Oceanography, Scientific Concepts
Bilingual Students' Ideas and Conceptual Change about Slow Geomorphological Changes Caused by Water
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Martínez, Patricia; Bannan, Brenda; Kitsantas, Anastasia – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2012
This paper presents the results of an experiment investigating the development of elementary-school dual-language learners' conceptual knowledge about processes of erosion, deposition, and transportation caused by water movement. To elicit students' ideas, researchers asked students to answer four open-ended questions using written answers and/or…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Earth Science, Water, Bilingual Students
Grounding Water: Building Conceptual Understanding through Multimodal Assessment
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Schwartz, Kerry L.; Thomas-Hilburn, Holly; Haverland, Arin – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2011
The world's population is growing by about 80 million people a year, implying an estimated increased freshwater demand of about 64 billion cubic meters annually (World Water Assessment Programme, 2009, Water in a Changing World: United Nations World Water Development Report 3, Chap. 1, p. 3-21). Groundwater depletion, which reduces the amount of…
Descriptors: Water, Earth Science, Science Instruction, Concept Formation
Undergraduate Student Satisfaction and Achievement at the GetWET Observatory: A Fluid Learning Experience at Colorado State University
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Rathburn, Sara L.; Weinberg, Andrea E. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2011
The GetWET Observatory was developed as part of an overall course redesign of the Introductory Geology Laboratory at Colorado State University to improve student learning of key surface and groundwater concepts for nonmajors in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Consisting of six groundwater monitoring wells, the GetWET Observatory…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Science Laboratories, Geology
Using National Parks to Transform Physical Geology into an Inquiry Experience
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Newbill, Phyllis Leary – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2009
For an inquiry-based alternative to lectures and recall tests, I encouraged learners to become "geotourists"; that is, learners researched and developed a geologic guidebook to a United States National Park of their choice. Over the course of a semester, students wrote chapters on plate tectonics, the rock cycle, geologic history,…
Descriptors: Parks, Geology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods