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A Review of Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Subject Matter Knowledge for Teaching Earth System Concepts

  • Roehrig, Gillian H.;Nam, Youn-Kyeong
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.494-503
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    • 2011
  • During the last three decades, earth science has been re-conceptualized as an interdisciplinary discipline entitled Earth System Science (ESS), which is based on knowledge of the physical earth system and human impact on the earth. While there is increasing effort to teach earth as a system in K-12 education, teachers' preparedness of to teach earth system is still in its infancy. This article focuses on reviewing the literature of teachers' knowledge of earth systems and of how teachers' knowledge of subject matter affects their teaching practice and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). First, the study investigated a literature of PCK in general as well as in science teaching. Then this study duscuss what teachers' subject matter knowledge (SMK) is and what it means to be in teaching earth system science. Third, a literature of teachers' knowledge of earth system was reviewed. Finally, a number of suggestions and implications are made as to what teacher education program should do to better prepare future teachers to teach earth systems.

Investigation on Recently Developed Reinforced Soil Wall System (국내 보강토옹벽 신기술 조사 연구)

  • Lee, Kwang-Wu;Cho, Sam-Deok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.158-167
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    • 2008
  • Reinforced earth wall system has been popularized since its introduction to Korean civil engineering society in early 1980's. Nowadays, the increased use of reinforced earth wall for the purpose of obtaining more land brings several additional demands such as environmental-friendly, better stable and constructible, and economical system. This paper introduces some recently developed reinforced earth wall systems with consideration of the current demands.

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Distribution of Heavy Metals in Sediment Cores Collected from the Nakdong River, South Korea

  • Magalie, Ntahokaja;Lee, Jiyeong;Kang, Jihye;Kim, Jeonghoon;Park, Ho-Jin;Bae, Sang Yeol;Jeong, Seok;Kim, Young-Seog;Ryu, Jong-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.412-424
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    • 2021
  • Understanding the distribution of heavy metals in sediment is necessary because labile heavy metals can partition into the water column and bioaccumulate in aquatic organisms. Here we investigated six heavy metals (Co, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in sediment cores using a five-step sequential leaching method to examine the occurrence of heavy metals in the sediment. The results showed that all elements, except Mn, are depleted in the exchangeable and carbonate fractions. However, heavy metal concentrations are much higher in the Fe-Mn oxide and organic matter fractions, especially for Cu, indicating enrichment in the organic matter fraction. Furthermore, contamination parameters (contamination factor and geoaccumulation index) indicate that Mn contamination is high, primarily derived from anthropogenic sources, presenting a potential risk to ecosystems in the Nakdong River.

The Effects of Earth System Education Using Multimedia on Elementary School Student's Environmental Sensitivity and Pro-environmental Behavior (멀티미디어를 활용한 지구계 수업이 초등학생들의 환경민감도 및 환경 친화적 행동에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Soon-Shik;Lee, Yong-Seob
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.266-275
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Earth System Education using multimedia on the elementary school students' environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental behavior. To verify this research problem, the subject of this study was fifth-grade students selected from two classes of M elementary school located in Busan city. For three months, the experimental group of 25 students was taught using multimedia. The comparison group also of 26 students was taught in normal classes which used a text-book. All students were given pre and post test to verify the effects of Earth System Education using multimedia on elementary school student's environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental behavior. The results from this study are as the following. First, Earth System Education using multimedia were effective on elementary school student's environmental sensitivity. Second, Earth System Education using multimedia were effective on elementary school student's pro-environmental behavior. Third, All most all experimental students were satisfied with Earth System Education using multimedia. In conclusion, Earth System Education using multimedia showed very positive effects on improvement of elementary school students' environmental sensitivity and pro-environmental behavior.

Implementation of the Flight Information Visualization System using Google Earth (Google Earth를 이용한 비행정보 시각화 시스템의 구현)

  • Park, Myeong-Chul;Hur, Hwa-Ra
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.79-86
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents implementation of a system for effective visualizing flight information of aircraft using Google Earth. This system in order to use a detailed satellite image which provide from Google Earth used COM API. This system appeared the various flight information of the aircraft in the instrument panel using OpenGL and the aircraft flight condition is visible in the Google Earth Map. This research result used to flight evaluation and improvement. In future will be able to apply to flight software development.

Comparison of Return current by the Earth type in the Electrical railway system (전기철도시스템의 접지 유형에 따른 귀선 전류 비교)

  • Lee, Gil-Lo;Kim, Yong-Kyu;Baek, Jong-Hyun;Ryu, Chang-Keun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2005.10b
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    • pp.53-55
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    • 2005
  • In electrical railway system, power supplied to electrical locomotive by catenary is returned to sub-station on track. The current returned to sub-station on track is return current, which is an essential factor for the safety of the wayside electrical equipment and maintenance staff. Therefore, earth system acts an important role to protect wayside electrical equipment and maintenance staff against return current. In general, individual earth system protects partially the electrical railway system, but common earth system does the whole electrical railway system and minimizes the flow of return current. In this paper, we are compared the effect of return current according to earth type by actual measurement in existing electrical railway system. The measurement was conducted at Shinchungju sub~station in high speed trains, and Guro sub-station, which is electrified section in classical line.

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Application and Development of Integration Technique to Generate Land-cover and Soil Moisture Map Using High Resolution Optical and SAR images

  • Kim Ji-Eun;Park Sang-Eun;Kim Duk-jin;Kim Jun-su;Moon Wooil M.
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.497-500
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    • 2005
  • Research and development of remote sensing technique is necessary so that more accurate and extensive information may be obtained. To achieve this goal, the synthesized technique which integrates the high resolution optic and SAR image, and topographical information was examined to investigate the quantitative/qualitative characteristics of the Earth's surface environment. For this purpose, high-precision DEMs of Jeju-Island was generated and data fusion algorithm was developed in order to integrate the multi-spectral optic and polarimetric SAR image. Three dimensional land-cover and two dimensional soil moisture maps were generated conclusively so as to investigate the Earth's surface environments and extract the geophysical parameters.

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Comparison of Land Surface Temperature Algorithm Using Landsat-8 Data for South Korea

  • Choi, Sungwon;Lee, Kyeong-Sang;Seo, Minji;Seong, Noh-Hun;Jin, Donghyun;Jung, Daeseong;Sim, Suyoung;Jung, Im Gook;Han, Kyung-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2021
  • Land Surface Temperature (LST) is the radiological surface temperature which observed by satellite. It is very important factor to estimate condition of the Earth such as Global warming and Heat island. For these reasons, many countries operate their own satellite to observe the Earth condition. South Korea has many landcovers such as forest, crop land, urban. Therefore, if we want to retrieve accurate LST, we would use high-resolution satellite data. In this study, we made LSTs with 4 LST retrieval algorithms which are used widely with Landsat-8 data which has 30 m spatial resolution. We retrieved LST using equations of Price, Becker et al. Prata, Coll et al. and they showed very similar spatial distribution. We validated 4 LSTs with Moderate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST data to find the most suitable algorithm. As a result, every LST shows 2.160 ~ 3.387 K of RMSE. And LST by Prata algorithm show the lowest RMSE than others. With this validation result, we choose LST by Prata algorithm as the most suitable LST to South Korea.