Aim 5 Communicate about science to the wider scien- tific community. Studentscreate written texts and visu- als in various modes for varied audiences. Develop personal qualities . Students develop skills, attitudes, values, and goals appropriate for a sci- entist. And because snowpack study has not been widely used in our schools, it is a fresh topic.
Students discover things they hadlittle suspected.
Althoughsnowpackstudy is presented in this course as pure science and as a subject for writing, it also prepares studentsto understandapplicationsof snow science in glaciology, avalanche studies, ecology, or hydrology, as well as to participate more safely in winter sports. Whetherviewed as pure scienceor appliedscience, snowpack study encourages wider understanding of one of nature's most interesting materials. One value of snowpack study in a technical writing course is that it provides a common experience in science among students with limited technical backgrounds. No member of the class is likely to know anything about the subject, so everyone starts off even.