Teaching Activities
The GET Spatial Learning project teaching activities are based on the science of learning as it applies to spatial thinking in the geosciences.
Subject: Geoscience
- 15 matches General/Other
- Geology 14 matches
- Hydrology 1 match
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- Short Activity 10 matches
Activities > Classroom Activity
6 matches General/Other
Resource Type: ActivitiesResults 11 - 15 of 15 matches
Earth Layers
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...
Introduction to Igneous Intrusions
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students make Play-Doh models of sills and dikes.
3D Model of a Geologic Map
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Naomi Barshi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carol Ormand, SERC, Carleton College
Students analyze a geologic map of an angular unconformity that truncates a pair of dikes, with some topography. When students have deciphered the map and constructed a cross-section, I show them a Play-Doh model ...
Hotspot Prediction
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told, "The tectonic ...
River Profile Prediction
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown one of these diagrams and told to ...