Misconceptions plague basic science education. For example, it’s common for students to start a microbiology course thinking, “Vaccines must cau...
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Seeing/Observing Animals Across the Disciplines
Every discipline brings different skills and emphases to the task of learning to “see,” particularly within disciplinary methodology. In looking a...
Ebola in Contested Spaces
The Coe Team’s SAIL project is multi-pronged endeavor, consisting of both individual modules and a team-taught course offered during our institu...
Fostering Long-Term, Collaborative Research in Environmental Science at ACM Field Stations
ACM institutions have a long tradition of establishing and managing field stations, to engage students in the study of the environment using active le...
Rivers in Space and Time
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy A comparative study with digital pos...
Environment and Resiliency in Italy
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy Our common module brought together t...
Italy and the Mediterranean: Earth, Sea, and Culture
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy This international course examines t...
GIS as a Platform for Interdisciplinary Education and Research
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy Geospatial tools offer a means to or...
Rio Loa Water Chemistry
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy This activity was created for a Janu...
Ecological Impacts of Tourism in and Around San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy This activity was created for the st...
Video Pen-Pals
Abstract Faculty collaborating on this project will develop an out-of-class assignment requiring students at St. Olaf College and Macalester College t...
Using Cognitive Science to Bridge the Gaps Between Disciplines
Abstract In theory, liberal arts students embody interdisciplinarity: poets by morning and biologists by night, they study plasma in spacecraft propul...