Glacial Landforms
Students learn to identify glacial landforms on aerial photography and other imagery. Students appreciate the value of seeing the images in 3-D.
Context
Audience: Undergraduate course in geomorphology
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered: Understanding of glacial landforms.
How the activity is situated in the course: Stand alone exercise
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity: Identify glacial landforms using imagery, interpret their formation, and interpret the relative timing of events.
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity: Interpretation
Other skills goals for this activity: N/A
Description of the activity/assignment
The students have been lectured to about glacial processes, but the homework was given prior to a lecture about glacial landforms. A field trip surveying the glacial landforms of SE South Dakota was just completed. The students must draw upon their knowledge and utlize other sources to interpret the landforms they see in the imagery.
Designed for a geomorphology course
Determining whether students have met the goals
I check for the quality and accuracy of their answers.
Students complained that the lecture on landforms would have been handy prior to the homework (I was hoping for some independent learning). However, the students valued the use of the steroscope to see landforms in 3-D.
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- Activity Description/Assignment (Microsoft Word 67kB May9 08)
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