INTERACTIVE IMMERSION LEARNING: Flying through Weather Data onboard the GEOpod

The project, GEOScience Probe of Discovery (GEOpod), is an effort to provide users with the capability of navigating a virtual probe (the GEOpod) through a geophysical data volume while actuating virtual devices, all the while being guided by a tiered instructional design strategy. Each mission includes a set of learning objectives and questions for assessment supported by a detailed assessment rubric that can be utilized by both instructor and student. [...]GEOpod provides a Mission Builder that gives the user the ability to create customized missions; a student invoking the GEOpod would click on a mission's icon to access preloaded exercises using current or archived gridded datasets.