Week 16: Final

Week Sixteen: Final
Taking Stock of the ESS Course
Week 16 is the last week of the course. During this course, you have used jigsaw, a cooperative learning method, to become an "expert" in a sphere and then contribute to a team effort to understand the relationship of an event to all four spheres. You have found ways to take what and how you have learned into your own classroom. You have experienced rubrics as a way of setting expectations, and self-evaluation and peer evaluation (critical friend) as a way of assessing your progress toward those expectations. What will you take away from this experience?

This week, pull together everything you have learned about Earth system science to complete the final project. Reflect on your learning in your portfolio, and in the Post-Course Survey in your Portfolio.

Assignments
1. Complete the Final Project Assignment.

2. Reflect on what and how you have learned in your Portfolio in the Classroom.

3. Complete the Post-Course Survey in your Portfolio in the Classroom.

Web Sites

NCREL Assessment The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory site analyzes critical issues in assessment and presents additional resources and supporting materials.

Database maintained by the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The Pennsylvania State University. The database contains a variety of geographically referenced data sets, representing both data generated by ESSC investigators, and other data needed to support their investigations. See also their research page.

Earth System Science Online The goal of this site is to serve as a repository for Earth System Science education and research resources - a starting point for your reference as you explore this expanding interdisciplinary field, or a place to look for the latest ESS developments.