Abstract
Geology faculty at Lake Superior Sate University (LSSU), a comprehensive state-funded university in Michigan's eastern Upper Peninsula, have designed and implemented a new undergraduate geoscience curriculum that utilizes innovative instructional strategies. The purpose of our major undertaking was to remediate the learning problems that we associated with traditional geoscience curricula and pedagogy, problems such as lack of student attentiveness and retention of concepts, inability of students to integrate core concepts after a series of discrete courses, lack of student communication skills, and poor student motivation. We have all witnessed unengaged students during traditional lecture sessions; we as instructors wanted to provide excitement in the geosciences, stimulate interest, and improve student problem-solving skills. Thus, after years of tweaking our traditional courses in the usual manner by creating active and open-ended laboratory exercises, providing increasing amounts of field work, and i...
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