David Sunderlin

Geology and Environmental Geosciences

Lafayette College

Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (4)

Field Exercise in Stratigraphy/Paleoecology part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
This field activity for GEOL 320 "Paleobiology" is designed to turn what could have been a "look-and-see" fossil collecting trip into one where genuinely interesting hypotheses/questions are ...

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Using a collected rock, ROCKD, and MacroStrat off campus to hook students into introductory geology coursework on campus part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity asks students who are soon to enter an introductory geology course at the college level to collect a local rock from their home, vacation locale, or elsewhere prior to the course start date and do a ...

Creature Features - Showcase of Living Fossils part of Paleontology:Activities
This activity connects the fossil record to biodiversity in the Recent by having students present on a "living fossil" group. The exercise is useful in demonstrating evolutionary stasis, reminding ...

An Exploratory Activity in Marine Diversity Analysis part of Paleontology:Activities
This activity introduces students to the Sepkoski database of fossil invertebrates through guided use of online access to the compendium. The activity calls for data analysis and display as well as student response ...

Course (1)

Paleobiology part of Paleontology:Courses
An organismal and systems approach to the study of the marine and terrestrial fossil record. The course will focus on diversification and extinction of biotas in the context of the environmental history of Earth. ...

Communities

Teach the Earth
Earth Educators' Rendezvous Interest Group

Workshop Participant (4 workshops)

Teaching Geoscience in the Field in the 21st Century
August 2010 Teaching Paleontology Workshop 2009
July 2009 Early Career Workshop 2008
June 2008

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