Kim Hannula

Florida River Project: Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks lab part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This fairly traditional rocks-in-boxes lab has been incorporated into a semester-long project. At the end of the lab, students apply their rock-identification skills to rocks from their study area.

Groundwater Lab part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This lab uses "ant farm" groundwater models to demonstrate groundwater flow and the behavior of wells. The lab is organized so that students have to predict the behavior of the model before observing it.

Using Field Lab Write-ups to Develop Observational and Critical Thinking Skills part of Cutting Edge:Structural Geology:Activities
This adaptation of field labs incorporates writing in the form of "Description" and "Interpretation" sections of a geologic report. It can be used in many types of field labs to improve critical thinking and understanding of descriptive terminology. -

Florida River Project: Semester-long group project part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This is a semester-long group research project that uses a local river to integrate several lab and field activities. The project covers topographic maps, rock and mineral identification, measuring data in the field, and plotting data. The project involves multiple lab sections and serves as a focus for a broad introductory class.

Florida River Project: Plotting discharge data part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This is part of a group of exercises used to prepare students for a group research project on a local river. In this exercise, students plot discharge data from a previous year.

Florida River Project: Minerals in the field part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This is a field trip that is part of a semester-long research project. In this lab, students visit part of their research site to look at rocks and minerals in the study area.

Plotting Florida River Data Using Excel part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This exercise is used to prepare students to analyze data they will collect during their group project. It familiarizes students with previously collected data, and builds skills graphing and interpreting data.

Topographic Maps: Integrated Florida River project part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This fairly traditional topographic maps lab uses local maps as examples. It is intended to prepare students for a group research project later in the semester.

Florida River Project: Measuring discharge, sediment, and water chemistry part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Activities
This data collection lab is part of a semester-long project, monitoring a local river.

Advanced Structural Geology part of Integrate:Workshops:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Course
This is an advanced course in structural geology, including discussion and lab. The course is focused around exploration of structural geology modeling software.

Earth Systems Science part of Cutting Edge:Introductory Courses:Courses
Our Earth Systems Science course is a fairly traditional lecture-style earth science survey course, designed to fulfill a Natural Environment requirement from a defunct general education program. The lab section includes a new group research project that involves a long-term study of a local stream, with each lab section contributing different information to be interpreted by all the lab sections.

It's scary to feel uncertain part of Integrate:Workshops:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Essays
It's scary to feel uncertain Kim Hannula, Geosciences, Fort Lewis College About a month ago, I got a flyer in the mail advertising software to aid in three-dimensional visualization of geologic structures. ...

Earth Systems Science part of Integrate:Workshops:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Course Supplement Collection
Kim Hannula, Department of Geosciences, Fort Lewis College.This page is a supplement to the original course description found hereShort description of the course:Earth Systems Science is an introductory geoscience ...

Florida River Project: Semester-long group project part of Integrate:Workshops:Teaching the Methods of Geoscience:Activity Supplement Collection
Kim Hannula, Department of Geosciences, Fort Lewis College.This page is a supplement to the original activity description found hereShort description of the activity:This group research project serves as the focus ...

Structural Geology at Fort Lewis College part of Math You Need:Implementations
Structural Geology At Fort Lewis College Implementor(s): Kim Hannula Course Name: Structural Geology Enrollment: 15-25 Challenges to using math in structural geology Structural Geology is one of the few courses in ...

Geologic Field Methods I at Fort Lewis College part of Math You Need:Implementations
Geologic Field Methods I at Fort Lewis College Implementor(s): Kim Hannula Enrollment: 19 Anticipated Start Date: 8/29/11 (Semester) Challenges to using math in sophomore geoscience courses Students come into our ...

Earth Systems Science at Fort Lewis College part of Math You Need:Implementations
Earth Systems Science at Fort Lewis College Course: Kim Hannula Enrollment: 40-50 Challenges to using math in introductory geoscience Fort Lewis College is a 4-year public liberal arts college in Durango, ...

Structural Geology at Fort Lewis College part of Math You Need
Structural Geology At Fort Lewis College Implementor(s): Kim Hannula Course Name: Structural Geology Enrollment: 15-25 Challenges to using math in structural geology Structural Geology is one of the few courses in ...