Sue Swanson

Geology

Beloit College

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Activities (4)

Did Early Farmers Alter Climate? part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The overarching goal of this exercise is for students to explore the early anthropogenic hypothesis, which claims that early agriculture had a substantial impact on greenhouse gases and global climate thousands of ...

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Drainage basin patterns and stream courses part of Geomorphology:Activities
This is a two- to three-day classroom activity and writing assignment that is designed to help students recognize typical drainage basin patterns and stream courses. In addition to discussing common drainage basin ...

Fault-bounded mountains and morphometric properties part of Geomorphology:Activities
This classroom activity is designed to help students see the utility of simple morphometric properties in fault-bounded mountain and piedmont environments. Rather than listing and describing commonly used ...

Creating a Water Table Map for Newark Road Prairie part of Hydrogeology:Activities
This field exercise emphasizes visualization of the water table over construction of a water table map. Students develop a water table map from scratch, including installing shallow monitoring wells, surveying ...

Course (1)

Geomorphology part of Course Design:Goals Database
This course focuses on the origin and development of landforms created by fluvial, glacial, and eolian processes. In addition, the relationships of landforms to underlying geologic structures and the history of ...

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Teach the Earth

Workshop Participant (5 workshops)

Teaching About Energy in Geoscience Courses: Current Research and Pedagogy
October 2010 Geomorphology Workshop 2008
July 2008 Hydrogeology Workshop 2005
July 2005

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