Download or read book Geology Field Trips and Laboratory Exercises written by Terry Engelder and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laboratory Exercises in Environmental Geology for New Mexico written by James McClinton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student retention of information and development of critical thinking skills are the primary objectives of instructors. Various methods in the presentation of information have been tried, and an abundance of delivery methods are currently in use. As technology has advanced, the use of computers has brought about major changes in education. Many colleges and universities are presently engaged in a race to present as many online degrees as possible. The advent of online classes has forced instructors to rethink methods of presentation. Changes in work schedules and lifestyles of students have made these online courses much more attractive than traditional on-site classes. Some researchers have cited improved student learning with online courses. Dawes (2003) cites virtual field trips as having a significant impact in classes when combined with problem solving exercises. Dawes further states "the virtual field sites provide an excellent resource that can be used to help achieve high-level geologic learning outcomes." I have used several virtual filed trips in an online setting, and students have expressed a high interest in them. I have found them to be quite beneficial to student learning when incorporated into online classes. While no single approach has universal success in education, online field trips have been very successful and have enjoyed a high popularity among my students. Educational research has long supported the belief that experience is the best teacher. In the words of John G. Richardson at North Carolina Cooperative Extension: Experience in a learning situation enhances the educational process and retention of knowledge gained. In the learning system, the experience component involves the inclusion of program delivery methods that allow the learner to participate in ways that involve senses, emotions, or social interaction, depending upon the content being provided. This experience may range from simply touching or feeling an object to actually constructing or dissecting an object. The experience may be recitation of words or seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and in some conditions hearing some stimulating situation or phenomenon. By having an opportunity to experience the information provided, the learner can retain the educational input considerably longer than if the information is only presented in the conceptual form. I began teaching environmental geology online with an accompanying online lab in 2002. The lab manual was designed for a traditional face-to-face class. I was very concerned with the validity of the course material and how well the students would learn and retain the information. Student achievement proved to be acceptable, but their interest level seemed less than it would have been in a face-to-face class, mostly due to problems with the lab manual. The format was not easily adapted to online use, and much of the material was from distant areas that were unfamiliar to most of the students. I believe information with which the students have some direct experience will help increase retention of information. Many of the areas of geological interest in New Mexico are familiar to my students, and I feel this familiarity will provide a good starting point for the assimilation of information about environmental geology. With these ideas in mind, I proposed to my Division Chair and to my Advisory Committee that I develop a suitable lab manual for the existing online environment The resulting lab manual develops geology topics from the state of New Mexico and incorporates my photographs, drawings, diagrams, and website.
Download or read book Utilizing an Artificial Outcrop to Scaffold Learning Between Laboratory and Field Experiences in a College level Introductory Geology Course written by Meredith Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geologic field trips are among the most beneficial learning experiences for students as they engage the topic of geology, but they are also difficult environments to maximize learning. This action research study explored one facet of the problems associated with teaching geology in the field by attempting to improve the transition of undergraduate students from a traditional laboratory setting to an authentic field environment. Utilizing an artificial outcrop, called the GeoScene, during an introductory college-level non-majors geology course, the transition was studied. The GeoScene was utilized in this study as an intermediary between laboratory and authentic field based experiences, allowing students to apply traditional laboratory learning in an outdoor environment. The GeoScene represented a faux field environment; outside, more complex and tangible than a laboratory, but also simplified geologically and located safely within the confines of an educational setting. This exploratory study employed a mixed-methods action research design. The action research design allowed for systematic inquiry by the teacher/researcher into how the students learned. The mixed-methods approach garnered several types of qualitative and quantitative data to explore phenomena and support conclusions. Several types of data were collected and analyzed, including: visual recordings of the intervention, interviews, analytic memos, student reflections, field practical exams, and a pre/post knowledge and skills survey, to determine whether the intervention affected student comprehension and interpretation of geologic phenomena in an authentic field environment, and if so, how. Students enrolled in two different sections of the same laboratory course, sharing a common lecture, participated in laboratory exercises implementing experiential learning and constructivist pedagogies that focused on learning the basic geological skills necessary for work in a field environment. These laboratory activities were followed by an approximate 15 minute intervention at the GeoScene for a treatment group of students (n=13) to attempt to mitigate potential barriers, such as: self-efficacy, novelty space, and spatial skills, which hinder student performance in an authentic field environment. Comparisons were made to a control group (n=12), who did not participate in GeoScene activities, but completed additional exercises and applications in the laboratory setting. Qualitative data sources suggested that the GeoScene treatment was a positive addition to the laboratory studies and improved the student transition to the field environment by: (1) reducing anxiety and decreasing heightened stimulus associated with the novelty of the authentic field environment, (2) allowing a physical transition between the laboratory and field that shifted concepts learned in the lab to the field environment, and (3) improving critical analysis of geologic phenomena. This was corroborated by the quantitative data that suggested the treatment group may have outperformed the control group in geology content related skills taught in the laboratory, and supported by the GeoScene, while in an authentic field environment.
Download or read book Laboratory Exercises in Physical Geology written by William Clement Putnam and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1945 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Physical Geology written by Ginn Press and published by Ginn Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular of Information written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Laboratory Exercises in Historical Geology written by Arthur Carleton Trowbridge and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtual Field Trips in Geology written by Parvinder Sethi and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS IN GEOLOGY are concept-based modules that teach students geology by using famous locations throughout the United States. Grand Canyon, Arches, and Hawaii Volcanoes National Parks are included, as well as many others. Designed to be used as homework assignments or lab work, the modules use a rich array of multimedia to demonstrate concepts. High definition videos, images, animations, quizzes, and Google Earth activities work together in Virtual Field Trips to bring the concepts to life.
Download or read book Field Geology Education written by Steven J. Whitmeyer and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Field instruction has traditionally been at the core of the geoscience curriculum. The field experience has been integral to the professional development of future geoscientists, and is particularly important as it applies to student understanding of spatial, temporal, and complex relations in the Earth system. As important as field experiences have been to geosciences education and the training of geoscientists, the current situation calls for discipline-wide reflection of the role of field experiences in the geoscience curriculum in light of practical and logistical challenges, evolution in employment opportunities for geoscientists, and changing emphases in the geoscience curriculum. This volume seeks to broaden participation in field instruction by showcasing diverse approaches to teaching in the field across the many geo-disciplines encompassed by GSA."--books.google.
Download or read book Physical Geology written by Jeffrey R. Knott and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for an introductory geology class for nonscience majors. The seven chapters (minerals, rocks, geologic history, earthquakes and geologic hazard maps) in this textbook provide the fundamentals of a 15-week introductory geology laboratory course. The homework chapters on plate tectonics, the rock cycle and topographic maps may be used as review or introduction to digitally delivered lab assignments on these topics. Optimally, this manual is used in conjunction with digitally delivered assignments and local field trips. For the instructor, this textbook provides the common topics that are covered in an introductory geology lab class. This provides the introductory framework after which the instructor includes local elements into the curriculum. Many of the labs have a clear answer sheet that makes turning in assignments easy as well as a short, directed, easily graded writing assignments. Students benefit from not having to purchase a full, 15-20-chapter manual from which only 10-15 chapters are used. The pre-lab reading is directed at the information required to complete the lab tasks, which means that the manual is independent any additional general lecture class.
Download or read book Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs written by Robert G. H. Raynolds and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared following the 2007 GSA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, these 15 guides illustrate the latest geological and archeological thinking on a variety of current research themes.
Download or read book General Catalog written by University of Missouri and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Register written by University of Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
Download or read book Introduction to Physical Geology written by Valerie F. Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographers written by Patrick H. Armstrong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.
Download or read book Report written by American Geological Institute and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Michigan Official Publication written by and published by UM Libraries. This book was released on 1951 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
