C Connor, A Prakash - Journal of Geoscience Education, 2008 - Taylor & Francis

Experiential discoveries in geoscience education: The EDGE program in Alaska.

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community AND Program Evaluation

Connor, Prakash

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Alaska's students directly observe their high-latitude landscape changing in response to both active tectonics and warming temperatures. Alaska's secondary school teachers must increasingly provide Earth systems science education that integrates these personal observations with geospatial datasets and satellite images using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. Alaskan job opportunities requiring Earth science and GIS training are increasing, yet less than 1% of Alaska's university students choose geoscience-related …

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