Introduction to Structure Contours part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students construct structure contour lines for a "dipping bed" in our classroom and on a geologic map. In my class, this is a multi-day activity. In part 1 of this exercise, students use "topographic ...

Field Trip Comics part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Activities
Andy Bobyarchick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Structural geology field trips integrate learning, collaboration, and exploration. Creating a comic (or graphic novel) from a field trip promotes students' rendering their own popular culture view of the ...

The Floating Lithosphere - Cross Section of North America part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Len Vacher, University of South Florida
In this module, students calculate the pressure at the depth of compensation along a cross section of North America.

Mentally Visualizing Large Geologic Structures from Field Observations: A Behavioral Study part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Activities
Kim Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Toru Ishikawa, Columbia University in the City of New York
Artificial outcrops made of plywood that together would form a large geologic structure, part of which is eroded or covered by dirt and vegetation, are constructed on campus. One structure is an elongate basin, and ...