Active Learning Grant Recipients from 1995 and 1996 recently reflected on the development of their projects. Every lecture is assigned a page with links to explanatory imagery and sample problems.
Pages also support each lab.
The web site provides the core of the final lab exercise, a weather project for which students, working collaboratively, collect and analyze their own data and integrate it with weather maps and satellite imagery to describe and explain local weather for a three-day period. Since its implementation in the 1996-97 school year, the site has been used by other G109 instructors. Grimmond is currently working with the School of Continuing Studies and the Center for Excellence in Education to devise a distance-learning version of the course. Grimmond believes that the formal integration of the web has been one of the most successful changes she's ever implemented in G109. Giving students access to real-time data can transform a course.