Field Notes
Summary
Field Notes provides instructors with helpful tips for a successful field trip. The tips include a well-developed literature review for designing and assessing field trips. Barriers to learning in the field can be overcome by reducing students' "novelty space" related to uncertainties about the geographic location, geologic setting, tasks to be mastered, expectations for final products, and concerns about personal comfort and safety.
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Context
Audience
This activity is designed for an undergraduate required course in mineralogy and is generally for sophomore or junior level students.
Skills and concepts that students must have mastered
How the activity is situated in the course
This activity is a stand-alone exercise, but is part of a larger volume of classroom and laboratory activities from "Teaching Mineralogy," a workbook published by the Mineralogical Society of America, Brady, J., Mogk, D. W., and Perkins, D., (editors), 1997,406 pp.
Goals
Content/concepts goals for this activity
This activity provides tips for instructors to design and evaluate effective field trips.
Higher order thinking skills goals for this activity
Other skills goals for this activity
Description of the activity/assignment
Field Notes provides instructors with helpful tips for a successful field trip. The tips include a well-developed literature review for designing and assessing field trips.
Determining whether students have met the goals
See activity download.
More information about assessment tools and techniques.Teaching materials and tips
Other Materials
- Field Notes (Word doc) (Microsoft Word 27kB May9 08)
- Field Notes (PDF) (Acrobat (PDF) 27kB May9 08)
Supporting references/URLs
Brady, J., Mogk, D. W., and Perkins, D., (editors), 1997, Teaching Mineralogy, a workbook published by the Mineralogical Society of America, 406 pp.
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