The power of moving sediment: integrating experimental sedimentology into the undergraduate geoscience curriculum

专业：地质学（42）基于麻省理工学院和威斯康星大学奥克莱尔分校开发的成功教学模式，该项目正在将水槽实验室纳入威诺纳州立大学（WSU）整个本科课程的教学中。 该实验室通过沉积学的实验检查帮助学生更好地可视化复杂的地质现象。 WSU学生在实验室模拟各种表面处理过程，并将他们的实验与实地研究联系起来，因为他们探索自己设计的研究问题。 为了向更广泛的地质界提供该项目的成果，正在制作实验运行的短视频，这些视频将张贴在一个新的项目网站上，通过DLESE和其他场所提供。视频内容和复杂性是针对整个K-16年级的不同学习者水平。 该项目正在利用一个常设机构社区外展计划，吸引当地K-12学生到该设施，向年轻学生介绍积极的科学实验。 社区成员可以通过远程控制访问与管道互动，当他们不用于学生实验的时候。 这种与公众动手的方法旨在增加吸引科学职业的本科生人数。增加地球科学专业的女生人数是一个具体的项目目标。 在K-12水平，该项目应激励更多的学生追求STEM职业，并提高公众对他们所居住的河流社区的认识。

Discipline: Geology (42)Based on successful instructional models developed at MIT and Univ. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, this project is integrating a flume laboratory into instruction throughout the undergraduate curriculum at Winona State University (WSU). The laboratory helps students better visualize complex geologic phenomena through the experimental examination of sedimentology. WSU students model a variety of surficial processes in the laboratory and connect their experiments with field studies as they explore research questions of their own design. To make the results of the project available to the broader geological community, short videos are being prepared of experimental runs, and these videos will be posted to a new project website, making them available through DLESE and other venues. Video content and complexity are targeted as appropriate to different learner levels throughout grades K-16. A standing institutional community outreach program is being leveraged by this project to draw local K-12 students to the facility, introducing younger students to active scientific experimentation. Community members can interact with the ducts via remote control access at times when they are not in use for student experiments. This hands-on approach with the general public is intended to increase the numbers of undergraduate students attracted to careers in science. Increasing the numbers of females in geoscience majors is a specific project goal. At the K-12 level, the project should inspire more students to pursue STEM careers, and to increase public awareness of the river community in which they live.