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The Saga to Reinvigorate the National Park Service Open
After a century, America’s national parks have become so popular that they are in danger of being smothered by affection. Many people struggle to visit a national park without making heroic planning efforts, booking reservations many month…
Find Hope with Climate Crisis Triage Open
This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" draws on the example of highway accident triage to apply principles of "Protect—Assess—Act" to the climate change crisis as a way people can build hope over hopelessness.
National Parks Can Improve Society by Revealing Destructive Historical Conflicts Open
This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" investigates the potential of using experiential learning in the National Park System to mitigate the repetition of harmful societal practices, such as relying on destructive conflict to reso…
A Solution to Existential Climate Crisis: RTFM Open
This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" says that he first step to resolving humanity’s greatest existential threat, the current climate breakdown, may be as simple as “read Earth’s operating manual.”
National parks, highways, and climate change Open
This visual essay in "The Photographer's Frame" explores how Americans’ love affair with road trips made a marriage of national park scenic landscapes and automobiles nearly inevitable—and has helped, literally, drive climate change.
A Numerical Indicator of Student Cognitive Engagement and Mathematical Growth Open
We discuss and examine a numerical indicator—the individual gain—of students' engagement and mathematical growth in relation to an instructor's course aims and goals. The individual gain statistic assesses the fractional amount an individu…
The human brain and mathematics: recent research and educational questions Open
New understandings of the functioning of human brains engaged in mathematics raise interesting questions for mathematics educators. Novel lines of research are suggested by neuroscientific findings, and new light is shed on some longstandi…
Beyond the scenery: Parks as giant living classrooms Open
Author(s): Davis, Gary E.; Davis, Dorothy Ann | Abstract: Parks offer numerous forms of educational value, but these values will be diminished or lost if society is left unaware of history or we become oblivious to our surroundings.