Visualizing Topography
http://reynolds.asu.edu/topo_gallery/intro_title.htm

Stephen J. Reynolds, Julia K. Johnson, Carla McAullif, Michael Piburn, University of Arizona

This module helps students learn to identify terrain features on topographic maps. QuickTime movies and interactive animations that illustrate features in three dimensions are compared to static topographic maps to help users recognize the same features in two dimensions. Viewers can manipulate animations of hills, valleys, and cliffs to see the terrain from various angles. The module also provides instruction on how to read contour lines. Questions and example answers help students practice and measure their progress.

Part of the Starting Point collection. The Starting Point collection includes resources addressing the needs of faculty and graduate students designing, developing, and delivering entry-level undergraduate courses in geoscience.

This resource is referenced here:

• Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Visualization:Examples: Visualizing Topography
• Cutting Edge:Develop Program-Wide Abilities:Spatial Thinking:Journal Club 2012:Participant Workspace: Overall summary
• Spatial Thinking Workbook:2013 Hedberg Conference: Online Resources
• Cutting Edge:Manage Your Career:Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011: Program
• Cutting Edge:Develop Program-Wide Abilities:Spatial Thinking:Journal Club 2012:Participant Workspace: Participant Workspace
• Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Visualizations: Data Visualization Links
• Cutting Edge:Develop Program-Wide Abilities:Spatial Thinking: Journal Club Findings
• Cutting Edge:Develop Program-Wide Abilities:Spatial Thinking:Journal Club 2012: Overview
• Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Morning Workshops:Spatial Reasoning: Program

Subject: Geography:Physical, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Structural Visualizations, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology, Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Landforms/Processes
Resource Type: Activities, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Maps, Animations/Video, Audio/Visual
Special Interest: Visualization
Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Structural Geology, Geomorphology