Collaborative Research: Geoscience Animation: Construction, Evaluation, and Modification of Plate Tectonic Concepts for Geosciences Education

合作研究：地球科学动画：地球科学教育板块构造概念的构建、评估和修改

• 批准号: 1712495
• 负责人: Robert Stern
• 金额: $ 14万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Dallas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-15 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1712495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Geoscience; Animation; Construction

Undergraduate geoscience students learn better if provided with high-quality, accurate animations of important Earth processes. This project will generate, assess, and disseminate a set of new animations about fundamental tectonic processes such as continental rifting, continental collision, transform faulting, and planetary tectonics. The animations will be tested in classrooms at the collaborating institutions and will be made available to major science media outlets like Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and History Channel, in order to aid them in generating better documentaries on fundamental Earth processes. The final animations will be highly useful in many high school and undergraduate classrooms since most introductory geoscience courses begin with lectures on Plate Tectonics. These animations could provide an important improvement in student understanding of fundamental earth processes that often have a significant impact on society. This project will provide scientifically-vetted and field-tested animations that will illustrate the concept of 'Plate Tectonics' in the three-dimensional space that is required for students to comprehend processes and interpret geologic history successfully. The work is supported by literature on visual learning styles, and these concepts are incorporated into the assessments. The evaluation methods will capture misconceptions as part of the formative assessment, which is critical to developing model animations for release to the general public, as well as undergraduate students. The project involves a rich collaboration across disciplines (art, geosciences and communications) and will systematically test several learning hypotheses in classroom environments of three campuses (University of Texas Dallas, Richland Community College, Richardson, TX and the University of South Florida) that typically serve underrepresented communities.

如果提供高质量、准确的地球重要过程动画，地球科学本科生会学得更好。该项目将生成，评估和传播一套关于基本构造过程的新动画，如大陆裂谷，大陆碰撞，转换断层和行星构造。这些动画将在合作机构的课堂上进行测试，并将提供给探索频道、国家地理频道和历史频道等主要科学媒体，以帮助他们制作更好的关于地球基本过程的纪录片。最后的动画将是非常有用的，在许多高中和本科课堂，因为大多数介绍地球科学课程开始与板块构造讲座。这些动画可以提供一个重要的改善学生的基本地球过程的理解，往往有重大影响的社会。该项目将提供经过科学审查和现场测试的动画，这些动画将在三维空间中说明“板块构造”的概念，这是学生成功理解过程和解释地质历史所必需的。这项工作得到了视觉学习风格文献的支持，这些概念被纳入评估。评估方法将捕捉误解作为形成性评估的一部分，这对于开发向公众以及本科生发布的模型动画至关重要。该项目涉及跨学科（艺术，地球科学和通信）的丰富合作，并将系统地测试三个校区（德克萨斯大学达拉斯，里奇兰社区学院，理查森，德克萨斯州和南佛罗里达大学）的课堂环境中的几个学习假设，通常服务于代表性不足的社区。