This project will synthesize existing knowledge and articulate unanswered questions in critical areas of research on cognition and learning relevant to the Geosciences.
How do students and geologists combine observations from scattered rock outcrops to form a 3-dimensional mental model
Two questions about learning that are central to, and characteristic of, geoscience education are: 1)How do people learn by direct observation of Nature in the field?
|Name||Title||Fields of interest|
|Kim A. Kastens||Special Research Scientist||i. geoscience learning and education; ii. spatial thinking in geosciences, spatial thinking; iii. environmental journalism, science journalism; iv. diversity in geosciences; v. marine geology.|