The importance of spatial thinking for geoscience education: Insights from the crossroads of geoscience and cognitive science

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 486, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-70

  Liben, Lynn S ^a   Titus, Sarah J ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAPS; STUDENTS;

COGNITIVE PROCESS; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; GEOSCIENCE EDUCATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL THINKING; STEREOGRAPHIC PROJECTION; TEACHING STRATEGY;

GEOLOGY;

CROSS SECTION; CURRICULUM; EARTH SCIENCE; EDUCATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; STUDENT;

EID: 84866527778     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2012.2486(10)     Document Type: Article

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