Educational Materials Development for a General Education Course on Art and Geology

整合科学和艺术教学的大学课程在非科学专业的教学中越来越受欢迎。这些跨学科课程为科学教学提供了丰富的环境，并且非常适合应用科学教育的“最佳实践”，如动手、情境和主动学习。最近的会议和期刊出版物记录了用艺术教授地球科学的效用；然而，这一概念广泛传播的一个主要障碍是缺乏支持地质和艺术课程的公开教育材料。这个概念验证项目的目标是将艺术和地质学入门级大学教科书的两章作为原型。项目团队汇集了地质、艺术和教育研究方面的专业知识，以及地质和艺术课程的设计、开发和教学经验，以及商业出版多媒体教育材料的开发。项目活动包括：1)原型艺术和地质学章节的开发，包括外部审查；2)由pi教授的核心课程团队对材料进行试点测试；3)对产品进行评估和后续改进；4)向地质学和艺术界传播原型和整体倡议，重点是在主要专业会议上提供的教师研讨会。这些活动正在为从概念验证阶段向全面开发阶段的进展奠定基础，其目标是编写一部可公开获得和广泛采用的艺术和地质教科书，并附有辅助的多媒体材料。

College courses that integrate the teaching of science and art are an increasingly popular approach to non-science majors' instruction. These interdisciplinary courses provide a rich environment for science teaching and learning, and one that is well-suited for applying science education "best practices" such as hands-on, in-context, and active learning. Recent conference sessions and journal publications have documented the utility of teaching geoscience with art; however, a major barrier to the concept's widespread dissemination is the lack of publicly available educational materials in support of geology and art courses. The goal of this proof-of-concept project is to develop as a prototype two chapters of an introductory-level college textbook on art and geology. The project team brings together faculty with expertise in geology, art, and educational research, as well as experience in the design, development, and teaching of a geology and art course and the development of commercially published multimedia educational materials. Project activities include: 1) the development of prototypical art and geology chapters, including external review, 2) pilot-testing of the materials in a core curriculum course team-taught by the PIs, 3) evaluation and subsequent refinements of the products, and 4) dissemination to the geology and art communities about the prototype and overall initiative, highlighted by a faculty workshop offered at a major professional meeting. These activities are establishing the foundation for progressing from the proof-of-concept stage to full-scale development, the goal of which is the production of a publicly available and widely adoptable art and geology textbook with supporting multimedia materials.