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Ways of knowing: how can traditional knowledge enrich geoscience education?

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Ways of knowing: how can traditional knowledge enrich geoscience education? Dr Judith (Judi) Brown Clarke and Dr Wendy K’ah Skaahluwaa Todd want traditional knowledge to be used in geoscience education and research. What are the problems with current geoscience teaching and research methods?

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Together, Ben and Julia are collaborating to research whether COASST participant place attachment shapes understanding of the local environment and specific critical thinking skills. “In Historically, formal education has focused on science content in a universal, remote and de-contextualised form. Why is citizen science important?

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Are there ‘rules’ for conveying emotion through art?

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To investigate these questions, a team of researchers from across the world combined their skills and expertise to perform some intriguing experiments. “We The computer was instructed to make its guesses based on the properties the researchers had measured. Or are their effects unpredictable?

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Classroom resources for the new school year

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Are you looking for free and engaging educational resources to use in your classroom? As students and teachers head back to school, why not use our free educational resources in your lessons? At Futurum, we work with researchers and academics from all disciplines to create classroom resources for schools. Pinterest.

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Social characteristics include population demographics, such as age, race, languages spoken and level of education. I went to university to study geography, then started a master’s in meteorology. I also teach GIS and data science classes, all with a geophysical component, and conduct research in these topics.

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Fostering love and knowledge of agriculture and the environment

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Collingwood is an agricultural educator and former Career and Technical Education Supervisor leading the administration and development of agricultural programmes in the US Virgin Islands. An agricultural education “I believe that it’s important to expose children to agriculture and the environment as early as possible,” says Diana.

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Farming on permafrost

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Dr Melissa Ward Jones , a permafrost geomorphologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks , USA, has established Permafrost Grown, a research project investigating the interactions between permafrost and agriculture. The most important members of the research team are the farmers themselves. “We