Wayne Powell

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Earth Materials and Ancient Cultures part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Students investigate properties of earth materials through the lens of art and archeology. It allows ties to other required core curriculum courses (particularly classics and art history), and integrates the use of ...

Correlating building stone type with building age to introduce the concept of dating rocks using index fossils part of Urban Geology:Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea page, part of the "Urban Geology: Activity Ideas" module, details a field-based exercise where students correlate building stone types and architectural styles with construction age in urban environments to draw analogies with geologic dating methods, particularly the use of index fossils for relative dating, targeting introductory geoscience students.

General Geology 1 part of Introductory Courses:Courses
This course introduces potential geology majors earth science through an investigation of the environmental quality of the local environment, and supporting just-in-time lessons.

Geological Perspectives of the Historic Buildings of New York City part of Course Design:Goals Database
This course is an exploration of the urban architectual landscape of NYC that will intergrate aspects of petrology and resource geology with the history of NYC's settlement patterns and ever-expanding trade ...

Teaching Urban Students part of Teaching Methods:Teaching Urban Students
This webpage is a pedagogical resource module offering geoscience educators strategies for teaching urban students, covering cultural, linguistic, and economic considerations, methods to engage diverse learners, leveraging urban environments, and providing example activities and references for effective urban education.

Sourcing architectural bricks by chemical analysis as an analog for sourcing magmas part of Urban Geology:Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea explores using geochemical analysis of New York City's historical yellow bricks as an engaging analog for teaching magma sourcing, allowing students to apply discrimination diagrams to solve archaeological material origins and draw parallels to igneous petrology.