An integrated field-based approach to building teachers' geoscience skills

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-40

  Almquist, Heather ^a   Stanley, George ^a   Blank, Lisa ^a   Hendrix, Marc ^a   Rosenblatt, Megan ^a   Hanfling, Seymour ^b   Crews, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Education Northwest   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; CURRICULUM; GIS; GPS; PALEONTOLOGY; TEACHER TRAINING; VISUALIZATION;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856143284     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1.3543926     Document Type: Article

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