Riggs Group
Field Geoscience for
Pre- and In-Service Teachers

Field-based geoscience is too often under-used in the education of pre- and in-service elementary school teachers. The reasons for this are many, but we have conducted research to show how valuable this can be in building solid content knowledge in the earth sciences.

This site is under continuous development and new materials, references, extended abstracts, and articles will be added as they are ready. Updated February, 2009.

Articles/Abstracts

Enhancement of Geology Content Knowledge Through Field-Based Instruction for Pre-Service Elementary Teachers, by C.A. Tretinjak and E.M. Riggs Journal of Geoscience Education, Special Issue on the Preparing Future Teachers of Geoscience, V56, N5 - November 2008

For other results of these studies, please see the MS theses of Christina Tretinjak and Julianne Browne under Past Students.