Teaching Earth and Space Science

Welcome to your multimedia earth and space science course! Hands-on exploration and discovery will enhance the way you learn and teach science.

This course focuses on three elements: content knowledge, inquiry and other teaching strategies, and use of multimedia and visualization tools in teaching and learning. Course goals include:

• developing content knowledge about Earth as a system, landform processes, Earth's history, the Sun-Earth-Moon system, and weather and climate;
• introducing inquiry-based learning models;
• providing a range of effective teaching methodologies, strategies, and tools for use in teaching earth and space science concepts;
• introducing a media-rich learning environment to use with students;
• providing models to illustrate ways to teach beyond the textbook; and
• understanding and utilizing the scientific process.