Doug Lombardi

Grand Canyon Cross Section Lab part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
× Students examine a geologic map of the Grand Canyon and two imaginary vertical cores through canyon stratigraphy. They use these data to construct a cross-section across the canyon and to answer questions ...

Inquiry-Focused Exercises Using Digital Technologies part of GET Spatial Learning:Blog
Digital technologies, and particularly mobile technologies, have become an integrated part of the social framework of our society. A consequence of this social evolution is that our students view digital devices ...

Teaching Geospatially in an Online World part of GET Spatial Learning:Blog
For many instructors, there is a lot of inertia that creates resistance to teaching online. They have had success developing a face-to-face course that works for them, so if it's isn't broken, why fix ...

Understanding how food, energy, and water decisions affect the thriving of local, regional, and global systems– A practice brief for secondary science teachers part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday Poster Session
Historically, decision-making around food, energy, and water (FEW) have not emphasized naturally occurring and complex interconnections. As such, these decontextualized approaches have led to environmental ...

Supporting teaching and learning in the Food-Energy-Water (FEW)-Nexus through a National Collaborative part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Poster Sessions:Monday Poster Session
The Food-Energy-Water (FEW)-Nexus has emerged as a powerful framework for teaching and learning that supports systems thinking and decision making in coupled human-natural systems. The National Collaborative for ...

Improving Understanding of Earth Science Topics through Evaluation and Plausibility Reappraisal part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday
Evaluation is an important aspect of science and is receiving increasing attention in science education. This study investigated changes to high school students' plausibility judgments and knowledge as a ...

Improving Food-Energy-Water-Nexus-based Education: Defining new research directions from problems of practice part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Afternoon Mini-Workshops
The Food-Energy-Water (FEW)-Nexus framework helps describe and address natural resource challenges in complex coupled human-natural systems. As this framework gains traction in informal, non-formal, K-12, and ...