Development of a 3-D Interactive Mineralogy Textbook

地质（42）本项目创建一本矿物学教科书，通过按照现代学习理论呈现材料，使其易于理解并与学生相关。这些章节与CD-ROM相结合，重点是学生主动学习。每个文本插图都是彩色3d再现，包括动画，互动练习和作者的叙述。随附的第二张CD-ROM提供了一个包罗万象的矿物学数据库，可用于矿物鉴定、晶体结构影像、光学性质等。部分文本及其动画将被合并到dese中，并提供元标签用于直接搜索和浏览大部分材料。这本教科书反映了两位作者在工业领域的经验，以及他们多年来教授地球科学、科学教育、行星科学和材料科学的经验。这本教科书涵盖了从科学教师到地质学家的各种学生视角，涵盖了更广泛的地球科学，以及与化学、物理、数学和生物学等相关学科的联系。该项目涉及芒特霍利奥克学院和爱达荷大学的作者之间的合作。爱达荷大学的教育工作者正在进行评估。塔萨图形艺术公司正在制作插图和cd - rom。要求提供支持，以促进制作一种低成本的教科书，该教科书将最先进的教学法和计算机动画结合起来，供学生在地球科学和科学教育项目中使用。该教科书采用了创新的方法（如螺旋式和归纳式学习的使用，以及概念图），这些方法有可能提高科学教师准备的质量，增加该领域教科书的多样性，并将技术融入地球科学和相关课程。美国国家科学基金会地球科学理事会地球科学部为该项目提供了重要的共同资金，以表彰这本创新的教科书和随附的CD-ROM对本科生和教师的重要性。

Geology (42)This project creates a Mineralogy textbook that is accessible and relevant to students by presenting the material in accord with modern learning theory. The chapters are integrated with a CD-ROM focused on active learning by students. Every text illustration is reproduced in color 3-D and includes animations, interactive exercises, and narration by the authors. A second accompanying CD-ROM provides an all-inclusive mineralogical database that can be used for mineral identification, movies of crystal structures, optical properties, etc. Sections of the text and its animations will be incorporated into DLESE, with metatags provided for direct searching and browsing of much of the material. The textbook reflects the experience of both authors' in industry and their years of teaching geoscience, science education, planetary science, and materials science. The textbook addresses a diversity of student perspectives ranging from science teachers to geologists, across the broader earth sciences, to connections with cognate disciplines like chemistry, physics, mathematics, and biology. This project involves collaboration among authors at Mount Holyoke College and the University of Idaho. Educators at the University of Idaho are performing evaluations. Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc. is producing the illustrations and the CD-ROMs. Support is requested to facilitate production of a low-cost textbook that incorporates state-of-the-art pedagogy and computer animation that may be used by students in the geosciences as well as science education programs. The textbook incorporates innovative methods (such as the use of spiral and inductive learning, as well as concept maps) that have the potential for improving the quality of science teacher preparation, adding diversity to the textbooks in this field, and providing for integration of technology into earth science and related curricula.Significant co-funding of this project is being provided by the Division of Earth Sciences in the NSF Directorate for Geosciences in recognition of the importance that this innovative textbook and accompanying CD-ROM has for undergraduate students and faculty.