How Fast Do Materials Weather? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
A think-pair-share activity in which students calculate weathering rates from tombstone weathering data. -

Earth Surface Socratic Questions part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Socratic Questioning:Examples
Earth surface processes sample Socratic questions and answers. -

Gallery Walk Questions on Weathering and Mass Wasting part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks:Examples
created by Mark Francek, Central Michigan University The following are potential questions that could be used in a gallery walk activity about weathering and mass wasting. The questions are organized according to ...

Land part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell
https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/ The solid Earth is the foundation upon which the entire system rests, and provides the critical substrate and reservoir of raw materials the rest of the system. The solid Earth also ...

Developing Questions for Gallery Walk to Engage Higher Order Thinking part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks
This section introduces Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives as an aid in writing questions for Gallery Walk (Bloom, 1964). Questions using the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation categories seem to work ...

Determining the Geologic History of Rocks from a Gravel Deposit part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Cooperative Learning:Examples
Gravels deposited as a result of continental glaciation are used to teach introductory-level earth-science students the application of the scientific method in a cooperative learning mode which utilizes hands-on, ...

Semester Schedule of Class Meetings and Assignments EEC 340: Research- Science Elementary Teaching (Earth System Science) part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach
Topic 1 (Aug 27) Earth system science and science as inquiry (complete all assignments by 6/10) Earth system science is a new realm of scientific inquiry that studies the connections and interactions between the ...

Gallery Walk Questions on Rivers part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks:Examples
created by Mark Francek, Central Michigan University The following are potential questions that could be used in a gallery walk activity about rivers. The questions are organized according to the cognitive level ...

Gallery Walk Questions about the Solar System part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks:Examples
created by Mark Francek, Central Michigan University The following are potential questions that could be used in a gallery walk activity about the solar system. The questions are organized according to the ...

Gallery Walk Questions about Human Dimensions part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks:Examples
created by Mark Francek, Central Michigan University The following are potential questions that could be used in a gallery walk activity about the human dimensions of geologic issues. The questions are organized ...