The Community Framework for Geoscience Education Research (St. John 2018) set forth grand challenges to provide direction to current and future researchers about where community efforts should focus. This research responds to an identified challenge in the cognitive domain of geoscience learning, in particular spatial reasoning. This grand challenge reads: “What skills and tasks are essential to the different specialties within the geosciences? What spatial and temporal reasoning skills map onto these specific tasks?” (Ryker et al. 2018, p. 70). The project responds to this grand challenge by investigating the spatial reasoning skills important for thinking and learning in meteorology.
This project was funded with a Towson University Faculty Development and Research Committee Grant and the Inaugural Fisher College of Science and Mathematics STEM Education Grant.
