How to be a field geologist: an in-class exercise to introduce students to basic outcrop analysis part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
This in-class exercise is designed to give students practice analyzing outcrops before they go on a field trip. First, students watch a short video tutorial on analyzing an outcrop. Then, they are given a color ...

Introduction to Scientific Journals part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
In this activity, students are introduced to locating and reading peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. It helps ease students into the process of locating, reading, and using journal publications. This ...

Using a Stream Table to Model Fluvial Processes part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop
Lori Babcock, Lauren Kay, David Lageson, David Mogk, Dept. Earth Sciences, Montana State University Introduction Modeling is one of the fundamental ways geoscientists learn about Earth processes. There are many ...

A Metacurriculum on Metacognition part of Metacognition
Karl Wirth, Macalester College Karl Wirth delivered the opening keynote address at the 2008 workshop The Role of Metacognition in Teaching Geoscience. He even engages the educator-participants in some of the same ...

Case Study: Falls of the James part of Geoscience in the Field
This page presents several video clips of Chuck Bailey's introductory geology class trip to the Falls of the James River. Chuck is a structural geology professor at the College of William and Mary. The video ...

Content Communities part of Undergraduate Research
Content communities allow users to share online multimedia materials. Popular content communities include YouTube , Flickr, and SlideShare . After registering for an account, individuals upload their materials, ...

MegaCognition: Metacognition for Large Classes part of Metacognition
Perry Samson, University of Michigan Dr. Samson's presentation is about scaling up the use of metacognition with hundreds of students. He describes his use of technology to help engage metacognition with such ...

Using Metacognition to Effect an Extreme Academic Makeover in Students part of Metacognition
Saundra McGuire, Louisiana State University Dr. McGuire shared insights from her work to improve students' metacognitive skills. Her results show that when students are thinking about their own thinking, they ...

Earthquake Hazards: The next big one? part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
In this activity, students explore of the concept of probability and the distribution of earthquake sizes, and then work to understand how earthquake hazards are described by probabilities. Students then work in ...

Developing Field Skills and Habits part of Geoscience in the Field
× There are many ways of teaching field skills and habits to students in our programs. The information below provides some examples of pedagogical approaches and considerations that can be useful in ...