Teaching Activities
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Learning Outcomes
- Design a data strategy 23 matches Design a field strategy to collect or select data in order to answer a geologic question.
- Collect data 30 matches Collect accurate and sufficient data on field relationships and record these using disciplinary conventions (field notes, map symbols, etc.).
- Synthesize geologic data 34 matches Synthesize geologic data and integrate with core concepts and skills into a cohesive spatial and temporal scientific interpretation.
- Interpret systems and processes 26 matches Interpret earth systems and past/current/future processes using multiple lines of spatially distributed evidence.
- Develop an argument 32 matches Develop an argument that is consistent with available evidence and uncertainty.
- Communicate clearly 33 matches Communicate clearly using written, verbal, and/or visual media (e.g., maps, cross-sections, reports) with discipline-specific terminology appropriate to your audience.
- Work independently and collaboratively 25 matches Work effectively independently and collaboratively (e.g., commitment, reliability, leadership, open for advice, channels of communication, supportive, inclusive).
- Reflect on personal strengths/challenges 8 matches Reflect on personal strengths and challenges (e.g. in study design, safety, time management, independent and collaborative work).
- Demonstrate professional behaviors 23 matches Demonstrate behaviors expected of professional geoscientists (e.g., time management, work preparation, collegiality, health and safety, ethics).
Capstone Field Experience
Resource TypeResults 61 - 80 of 95 matches
Virtual fieldtrip on the Quaternary evolution of Rhodes Isl. (Greece).
Niki Evelpidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This virtual fieldtrip takes place on Rhodes Isl., Dodecanese, Greece. Rhodes is the largest island among the Dodecanese Archipelago in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Along with Kassos, Karpathos and Crete islands, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Oldest Multicellular Animals: Nilpena, South Australia (unguided VFT)
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, fossils of the earliest multicellular animals, called the Ediacara fauna, appear in the rock record and evolve in three distinct stages. Then suddenly, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Banded Iron Formations, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The banded iron formations (BIFs) of Karijini Gorge in Western Australia are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age. This unique formation is the largest iron deposit on ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
OpenTopography Data Sources and Topographic Differencing
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
In spring 2020, the world was hit by a pandemic that spread globally by March, causing universities and most of the world to move to remote means. Summer field camps, long hailed as a rite of passage in the ...
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Synthesize geologic data , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data
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Marble Bar, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Marble Bar Chert of Western Australia, is one of the earliest sedimentary deposits on Earth. The Marble Bar Chert, along with the presence of pillow basalts, could be an important part of Earth's early ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Gorge to Shore - Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast to Northern California
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip
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Battle of Lava and Life: Crater Lake National Park and Newberry Volcanic National Monument
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 (509) 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Field trip , Field camp
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Ancient Earth Pichi Richi Trail, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia we can trace the end of an almost global glaciation through to the base of the Ediacaran Period. Explore the rocks that were deposited in an ancient ocean ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Online Minerals and Rocks - A Practical Study Guide
Scott Brande, University of Alabama at Birmingham
New websites with all media online needed to learn and practice identification of minerals, igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock. Not designed as a self-contained laboratory activity, but as a resource ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity
First Reef-building Animals, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Archaeocyathids were important marine organism that lived in shallow tropical and subtropical waters of the early Cambrian Period around 530 million years ago. They became the planet's very first reef-builders ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Structural Geology of East Gippsland, southeastern Australia
Sandra McLaren, The University of Melbourne
This activity is a virtual field experience set in Palaeozoic rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt in Southeastern Australia. Exercises include identifying and interpreting rocks showing evidence for two phases of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Sage to Sea - Columbia Plateau, across the North Cascades and to Whidbey Island WA
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip , Course Information
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A Theme Based Field Course on the Geology of New York
Dr. Joe Reese and Dr. Eric Straffin Department of Geosciences Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Edinboro, PA 16444 phone numbers: 814-732-2814 / 1573. Intended Audience: teachers, science education students, and ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip
Geology of the central and southern Adirondack Mountains, New York: research field camp
Dr. David W. Valentino, Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Oswego Dr. Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli, Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University Intended Audience: This field program is ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Field Activity:Field camp
Virtual Field Trip to the Book Cliffs
Ann Holmes, The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
Problem-based learning techniques have been applied to geological datasets collected and published about the Cretaceous Book Cliffs exposures in Utah.
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Field Activity:Importation of field observations into the classroom, Activities:Virtual Field Trip
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Video Games as Physical Geology Labs
Ronald Dorn, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This resource includes a series of laboratory activities associated with geovisualizations that look and play like a video game. The student controls the video game camera and the avatar to interact with DEM ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Reconnaissance mapping of the Block Mountain area, MT
Sinan Akciz, California State University-Fullerton
For this module, students are given to task of preparing a reconnaissance report for an oil company that is interested in exploring an area near Dillon, MT. In an effort to keep this field site in a pristine ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Work independently and collaboratively , Reflect on personal strengths/challenges , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data, Design a data strategy , Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
Layers in Time, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Ediacaran Period, named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, is the last geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era immediately preceding the Paleozoic Era. The rocks at this very special site define ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Exploring the Grand Caynon (unguided VFT)
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Upheaval Dome, Moab USA
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Upheaval Dome is circular depression of folded and faulted rocks located in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. It is approximately 5 km in diameter and estimated to be less than 170 million yrs old. There are two ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone