Current Teaching Process Research Projects
Integration of Art and Science Across the Disciplines
Working with artists, art educators, scientists, and science educators, I am exploring the integration of teaching the process of discovery. With my wonderful art-education faculty colleague, Dr. Amy Pfiler-Wunder, I co-teach a graduate level course at KU called 'Discover! Integration of Art and Science Across the K-12 Curriculum. We also lead field and studio collaborations for students to experience 'transdisciplinary' research experiences. Our most recent work involves collaboration on STEAM inserts into Explorations in Art (Grades 1-6) Marilyn Stewart (ed) for Davis Publication due to be published in early 2018.
Working with artists, art educators, scientists, and science educators, I am exploring the integration of teaching the process of discovery. With my wonderful art-education faculty colleague, Dr. Amy Pfiler-Wunder, I co-teach a graduate level course at KU called 'Discover! Integration of Art and Science Across the K-12 Curriculum. We also lead field and studio collaborations for students to experience 'transdisciplinary' research experiences. Our most recent work involves collaboration on STEAM inserts into Explorations in Art (Grades 1-6) Marilyn Stewart (ed) for Davis Publication due to be published in early 2018.
SPAN - Student Produced Audio Narrative (NSF Award #1708590)
Audio production (like news stories or podcasts) are a powerful for student to connect with course content - making the meaning in their own voices. I am the lead PI a team with Dr. Ari Epstein (MIT), Dr. Laura Guertin (PennState Brandywine) and Dr. George Sirrakos (Kutztown University), in collaboration with 6 partner faculty at community colleges and within underserved programs to develop audio curriculum and assess the impact on student engagement. In my AST 30 - Mission to the Planets (general education planetary science) class, each semester students work with the university library, campus radio station, and the course content to research, write and record a short podcast. The excellent ones are aired on the award-winning KUR campus radio station news hour. Listen to a few examples here:
Space Junk Naming Planetary Objects The Green Flash Voyager Encounters the Heilosphere
Click on the links above to download an mp3 file.
Audio production (like news stories or podcasts) are a powerful for student to connect with course content - making the meaning in their own voices. I am the lead PI a team with Dr. Ari Epstein (MIT), Dr. Laura Guertin (PennState Brandywine) and Dr. George Sirrakos (Kutztown University), in collaboration with 6 partner faculty at community colleges and within underserved programs to develop audio curriculum and assess the impact on student engagement. In my AST 30 - Mission to the Planets (general education planetary science) class, each semester students work with the university library, campus radio station, and the course content to research, write and record a short podcast. The excellent ones are aired on the award-winning KUR campus radio station news hour. Listen to a few examples here:
Space Junk Naming Planetary Objects The Green Flash Voyager Encounters the Heilosphere
Click on the links above to download an mp3 file.
Research experience for introductory students embedded in the curriculum
As a geoscience counselor for the Council on Undergraduate Research, I am involved nationally with advocating for opportunities for undergraduate to participate in research as a part of their college degree programs. Within my own courses, I am focused on providing research opportunities for introductory level students to participate in authentic research projects embedded into the curriculum. I am working on assessing the impact of such experiences within my own courses and sharing my results with the scientific and educational community. See the issue of In the Trenches I was the guest editor for, and my article within.
As a geoscience counselor for the Council on Undergraduate Research, I am involved nationally with advocating for opportunities for undergraduate to participate in research as a part of their college degree programs. Within my own courses, I am focused on providing research opportunities for introductory level students to participate in authentic research projects embedded into the curriculum. I am working on assessing the impact of such experiences within my own courses and sharing my results with the scientific and educational community. See the issue of In the Trenches I was the guest editor for, and my article within.