Google Earth Geoscience Video Library (GEGVL): Organizing Geoscience Videos in a Google Earth Environment to Support Fieldwork Teaching Methodology in Earth Science

Fieldwork teaching methodology (FTM) and active learning are effective strategies for geoscience education. However, traditional field trips require significant resources, time, physical abilities, the expertise of teachers. In this study, we provide a supplementary virtual trip experience by showing how different kinds videos can be spatially organized into one digital interactive environment. Here, present Google Earth Geoscience Video Library (GEGVL) which uses location-specific about events, to create field-based experience. Using Earth, GEGVL organizes location links pertinent non-field-based videos, allows users roam globe in search geoscientific that them or their students. Currently, contains 150 ten disciplines: Plate Tectonics, Minerals, Structural Geology, Metamorphism, Magmatism, Hydrology, Environmental Science, Sedimentology, Paleontology, Paleomagnetism. Despite stability challenges with integration, results user surveys among lower-division undergraduates show design logic is promising organizer increasing students’ interest helping learn sciences.