The COMET faculty workshop's "Introductory Meteorology" group has compiled links to a variety of materials that can be used in introductory meteorology courses. As a complement to that resource, I think it would be very valuable to know how such materials might best be used and more generally how introductory geosciences courses might be taught most effectively.
A good starting point for exploring these questions might be "
Starting Point: Teaching Entry Level Geoscience" (
http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/), a Web site created with NSF funding by the Science Education Resource Center (based at Carleton College in Minnesota).
The purpose of this Web site is stated as follows:
Learn about instructional methods that work with entry-level geoscience students.
This site is designed for faculty and graduate students teaching undergraduate entry-level geoscience,
environmental science, or related courses. Each section describes a teaching method, why/when it is useful,
how it can be implemented, and a set of examples spanning the Earth system that can be used in your class.
Some of the links from the Web site include:
You can explore teaching examples by topic, including "atmosphere" and "climate", among others. You can also contribute your own ideas and experiences to the Web site and share them with others.
-- Dave Dempsey
