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Course Components
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Implementation
Examples
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Contact:
Lindsey Johnson
Maureen Moses
Katie O'Neill
202-737-1043 or
1-800-824-0405
onlinewx@ametsoc.org
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Implementation Highlight
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| AMS Weather
Studies can be offered in a wide variety of learning environments and fits
your college's schedule. Integration of AMS Weather Studies with your
course management system allows for immediate student
feedback and automated grading.
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Development for this course was supported, in part, by the National Science
Foundation.
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AMS Weather
Studies Implementation Examples
On-campus Lecture/Laboratory
AMS Weather Studies is offered as a 4-5 credit
laboratory course with 2-3 lectures and 1-2 lab sessions per week. Students are
assigned a text chapter before each week's meetings and then use lab time for
discussion of the Daily Weather Summary and Weekly Weather/Climate News,
completion of labs in the Investigations Manual and Current Weather
Studies activities, and critical thinking exercises. The instructor grades
work in the traditional way or has students enter their responses on a course
management system website for automated scoring and instant feedback.
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Online Offering
AMS Weather Studies is offered as a completely
online class that may begin or end any time of the year or may be an open ended
self-paced course. For the typical asynchronous class the instructor assigns
text readings and Investigations Manual activities, and may use course website
materials including the Math Skills Challenge activities to round out the
student's work. Instructors form online collaborative study groups and
communicate with students through e-mail, an online discussion board or via
chat. Group discussions can focus on the Daily Weather Summary and Weekly
Weather/Climate News, as well as the Critical Thinking exercises. The
instructor uses a course management system for overall course organization as
well as student response and testing. At many schools, AMS Weather
Studies rounds out their lab science course offerings.
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Blended Courses
Non-traditional students, often in the workforce, are
flocking to courses that deliver high quality learning in a variety of new ways
that directly meet their needs as busy adult learners. The typical blended
course offers most course content online but provides an opportunity for the
class to interact in the live classroom several times during the term. This
method provides many advantages from secure testing environments to
opportunities for group lab activities to the recognized benefit of getting
students together, even if only a few times, to meet the instructor and each
other and discuss course content. Class meetings are often held on weekends and
evenings and may be as many or few as scheduling needs dictate. Some courses
make the live meetings optional when a part of new "flex-class"
programs. Accelerated degree programs where a cohort of students take a single
class over a five week period frequently find this delivery method ideal. It
also works well for short "winterim" and summer session
programs.
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Web-enhanced Lecture
The instructor offers 2-3 weekly large on-campus lectures
and students complete Weather Studies textbook readings and possibly
end-of-chapter review and critical thinking questions. Testing is done
in-class. The instructor uses the AMS Weather Studies text-users website
for discussions of the Daily Weather Summary, Weekly Weather/Climate News and
current weather maps. Math Skills (on the website) may be assigned as
homework.
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