Storytelling in the Meteorology Classroom

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 897-906

  Knox, John A ^a,c   Croft, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348218818     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477-78.5.897     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (34)

1. Abrams, M. H., Ed., 1986: The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 5th ed. W. W. Norton, 2578 pp.
2. Allen, R. R., and T. Rueter, 1990: Teaching Assistant Strategies: An Introduction to College Teaching. Kendall/Hunt, 158 pp.
3. American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1993: Ways with Words. American Society of Newspaper Editors, 31 pp.
4. Ashford, O. M., 1985: Prophet - Or Professor?: The Life and Work of Lewis Fry Richardson. Adam Hilger, 304 pp.
5. Bryson, R. A., 1994: The discovery of the jet stream. Wisconsin Academy Rev., 40, 15-17.
6. Darbo, S., 1976: A Griot's Self-Portrait: The Origins and Role of the Griot in Mandinka Society as Seen From Stories Told by Gambian Griots. Gambia Cultural Archives, 18 pp.
7. Friedman, R. M., 1989: Appropriating the Weather: Vilhelm Bjerknes and the Construction of a Modern Meteorology. Cornell University Press, 251 pp.
8. Gill, A. E., 1982: Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics. Academic Press, 662 pp.
9. Holton, J. R., 1992: An Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology. 3d ed. Academic Press, 511 pp.
10. Houghton, D. D., P. M. Pauley, and L. H. Horn, 1987: A perspective on synoptic-meteorology education: The graduates speak. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 68, 1271-1277.
11. Huber, R. M., 1992: How Professors Play the Cat Guarding the Cream. George Mason University Press, 201 pp.
12. Jewell, R., 1994a: How the Bergen School came into existence.Translated by V. Bjerknes. Proc. Intl. Symp. on the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones (Suppl.), Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen, 1-11.
13. _, 1994b: The integrity at work in the Bergen School of Meteorology. Proc. Intl. Symp. on the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones, Vol. I, Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen, 32-37.
14. Knox, J. A., 1997: Storytelling and the reform of the college science lecture. J. College Sci. Teaching, in press.
15. Lindzen, R. S., E. N. Lorenz, and G. W. Platzman, Eds., 1990: The Atmosphere, A Challenge: The Science of Jule Gregory Charney. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 321 pp.
16. Lovelock, J. E., 1995: The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of our Living Earth. W. W. Norton, 255 pp.
17. Mack, M., Ed., 1985: The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 5th ed. W. W. Norton, 2052 pp.
18. Maclean, N., 1992: Young Men and Fire. University of Chicago Press, 301 pp.
19. Mills, C. A., 1954: Air Pollution and Community Health. Christopher Publishing House, 180 pp.
20. National Storytelling Association, 1994: Tales as Tools: The Power of the Story in the Classroom. The National Storytelling Press, 213 pp.
21. Navarra, J. G., J. Levin, and J. G. Navarra Jr., 1993: An example of the use of meteorological concepts in the problem-based general-education experiences of undergraduates. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 439-446.
22. Neumann, J., 1993: Great historical events that were significantly affected by the weather. Part 11: Meteorological aspects of the Battle of Waterloo. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 413-420.
23. Plumley, W. J., 1994: Winds over Japan. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 63-68.
24. Postman, N., 1995: Utne Reader. no. 70, 35.
25. Propp, V., 1968: Morphology of the Folktale. 2d ed. Translated by L. Scott. University of Texas Press, 158 pp.
26. Ruscher, P. H., 1984: Some estimates of the reading grade level of college textbooks in meteorology. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 65, 464-470.
27. Schank, R. C., 1990: Tell Me a Story: A New Look at Real and Artificial Memory. Charles Scribner's Sons, 253 pp.
28. Science, 1994: Innovations on campus. Science, 266, 843-893.
29. Taba, H., 1988: The "Bulletin" Interviews. World Meteorological Organization, 405 pp.
30. Tobias, S., 1990: They're Not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier. Research, 94 pp.
31. Uccellini, L. W., R. A. Petersen, C. H. Wash, and K. F. Brill, 1984: The Presidents' Day cyclone of 18-19 February 1979: Synoptic overview and analysis of the subtropical jet streak influencing the pre-cyclogenetic period. Mon. Wea. Rev., 112, 31-55.
32. Ulanski, S. L., 1993: An analysis of the liberal arts in introductory meteorology courses. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 74, 2203-2209.
33. Walker, B., 1995: A presentation on the use of surveys as an active learning exercise for college students. Proc. 25th Anniversary Conf. of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Bloomsburg, PA, International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, 159-160.
34. Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1986. Merriam-Webster, 2662 pp.