Carol Ormand

Guided Reading of Scientific Journal Articles part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
This is a sequence of assignments for my Structural Geology course that guides students through the process of critically reading and analyzing scientific journal articles. For each article, I outline the general questions they should try to answer as they read any journal article, then give specific versions of each of those questions for the particular article assigned. For the last article, I leave it to the students to figure out what the specific versions of the questions would be. I chose these particular articles for their relevance to topics covered in my course and for their readability. I believe the assignments can easily be adapted to guided reading of any scientific literature. -

Using play-doh to understand 3D Flinn Plots part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
In this activity, students are introduced to the 3D Flinn Plot. They have previous experience with 1+e2 vs. 1+e1 plots of plane strain, but this is their first exposure to 3D strain. Students deform play-doh, then plot the resulting shapes on Flinn Plots. The exercise links the abstract 3D Flinn Plot to concrete strain ellipsoids. -

Contractional Strain: Calculations part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
In this exercise, students calculate bulk shortening and bulk thickening for a contractional deformation experiment. They then describe the specific structures accommodating that strain. -

Contractional Strain: Gestures part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
In this exercise, students use gesture to describe the bulk deformation and local deformation apparent in images of a contractional analog experiment. This uses embodied learning to help students conceptualize contractional deformation. It also helps break up the lecture and gives the instructor immediate visual feedback about whether students understand these basic concepts. -

Fault Separation Gestures part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
à Gesturing a layer offset by faulting Provenance: Carol Ormand, Carleton College Reuse: This item is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ You may reuse this item for non-commercial purposes as long as you provide attribution and offer any derivative works under a similar license. Students use gestures to explore the relationship between fault slip direction and fault separation by varying the geometry of faulted layers, slip direction, and the perspective from which these are viewed. -

Gestures for Structural Geology: Linear and Planar Features part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
à Gesturing a linear trace of a feature on the visible surface of a 3D solid. Provenance: Kinnari Atit, Temple University Reuse: This item is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ You may reuse this item for non-commercial purposes as long as you provide attribution and offer any derivative works under a similar license. In this exercise, students use a pointer finger to gesture the orientations of linear features and use their hands (open and flat) to gesture the orientations of planar features. In the first part of the exercise, students can only see one surface of a wooden block, and are asked to speculate about how planar features penetrate through the interior. Later, they uncover the other faces of the block and gesture the actual orientations. This uses embodied learning to help students relate surficial (2D) observations to 3D interpretations. -

Geology of the National Parks part of Cutting Edge:Course Design:Goals Database
Carol Ormand , cormand@carleton.edu Wittenberg University a Private four-year institution, primarily undergraduate . Course URL: Subject: Geoscience:GeologyResource Type: Course ...

Plate Boundaries and Volcanoes part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:First Day of Class:Activities
Carol Ormand, Wittenberg University Course: Geology of the National Parks 28 students Students remember what they have seen and done much better than they remember what you have told them. Working with real, ...