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

将理科和艺术教学结合在一起的大学课程是非理科专业学生越来越受欢迎的教学方式。这些跨学科课程为科学教学和学习提供了丰富的环境，并且非常适合应用科学教育的最佳实践，如动手、情景和主动学习。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学和艺术课程的公开可用的教育材料。这个概念验证项目的目标是开发一本关于艺术和地质学的入门级大学教科书的两个章节的原型。该项目团队汇集了在地质学、艺术和教育研究方面具有专业知识的教员，以及在地质学和艺术课程的设计、开发和教学以及开发商业出版的多媒体教育材料方面的经验。项目活动包括：1)开发原型艺术和地质学章节，包括外部审查；2)对核心课程团队中的材料进行试点测试--由专业人员授课；3)对产品进行评估和随后的改进；4)向地质界和艺术界传播原型和总体倡议，重点是在一次重要的专业会议上举办的教员讲习班。这些活动正在为从概念验证阶段到全面开发阶段奠定基础，其目标是编制一本可供公众查阅和广泛采用的带有多媒体辅助材料的艺术和地质学教科书。

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.