Before you begin this course, make sure you skim through the Course Orientation (see the "Orientation" menu).
My training is in research science, not education. One of my objectives in this lesson is to find out what your opinions are about teaching science and the state of science education in general. I also want you to practice reading articles, discussing them with the class, and making plots. These are all skills that you'll need later on in the course and in the other courses in this program.
By the end of Lesson 1, you should be able to:
Lesson 1 will take us one week to complete. 26 Aug - 3 Sep 2019.
Requirement | Submitted for grading? | due date |
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Read articles and discuss them with the class | Yes—Your discussion board participation counts toward your Lesson 1 grade | regular participation spanning 26 Aug - 3 Sep |
Map yourself | No-Optional but fun! Place yourself on a map of current and former M.Ed. in Earth Sciences students and faculty | |
Create plots of data sets | Yes—This exercise will be submitted to a Canvas assignment and will count toward your Lesson 1 grade | 3 Sep |
Pre-instructional quiz | Yes—Taking this Canvas-based quiz will count toward your Lesson 1 grade (you will not be graded on the correctness of your responses, only on whether you answered all the questions) | 3 Sep |
If you have any questions, please post them to our Questions? discussion forum in Canvas (not e-mail). I will check that discussion forum daily to respond. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help out a classmate.