Enhancing Student Learning through Interactive Teaching Methods
Implementing innovative strategies, such as creating student learning objectives, group collaboration, and weekly note submissions, to improve student engagement and success in introductory courses for non-majors. Students saw improvements in note-taking skills, leading to enhanced academic performance and a deeper understanding of the course material.
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Introductory Students, predominantly non- majors. Class size Time spent grading versus benefit to students
Created student learning objectives for each lesson and turned into a note taking template. Students turned in notes weekly for grades. Students submitted notes on the discussion board for extra credit. Divided students into groups and let them submit notes via Wikis.
Each group is assigned one week of creating notes. Group does not have to meet, they can work in the Wiki at different times. Easy for the instructor to see how much work each student did in creating the notes.
Students did not realize that they did not take good notes until they saw how good some of the notes created by fellow students were. Students felt that taking notes became easier as the semester progressed. The semester that I graded notes each week, I saw that some B students moved up to A s but students that were not willing to work that may have pulled a C before gave up and failed.
Recognize common stream features from photos. Understand how to move to determined locations in Google Earth and use basic Google Earth tools. Identify stream patterns from Google Earth locations Manipulate live stream data to calculate recurrence intervals of a local stream. Graph Peak stream discharge versus recurrence interval Evaluate a topographic map of the local stream and identify flood prone areas.
Toggle back and forth between topographic map and satellite imagery. Answer questions about Crabtree Creek which they will be using USGS gaging station data in the next part of the exercise.
