Maria Waller

Depositional Environments and Geologic History Labs part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
This is a pair of labs that incrementally prepare students to interpret the geologic history of a rock sequence. The first lab introduces students to depositional environments and fossils. The second lab presents a ...

Teaching about Time part of Rates and Time:Workshop 2012:Essays
This essay page from the "Teaching about Time" workshop explores challenges in teaching geologic time, emphasizing student difficulties with sequencing geologic events, visualizing Earth's temporal and physical scales, and integrating rates of geologic processes into curriculum, while advocating for visual, cause-and-effect-based pedagogical approaches.