Reef Survivor Jamaica- Modification of an undergraduate geoscience board game for Jamaican communities (middle school children and adults)
Caitlin Currie, The University of Texas at Austin; Estefania Salgado-Jauregui, Servicio Geologico Colombiano; Claire Williams, The University of Texas at Austin; Rowan Martindale, The University of Texas at Austin; Debbie-Ann Gordon-Smith, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica; Denise Henry, Alligator Head Foundation, Portland, Jamaica; Kathy Ellins, The University of Texas at Austin
Educational geoscience games have been increasing in popularity because they promote learning through amusement and encourage learners to engage with complex systems. This educational board game teaches players ...

Atlantic City Mapping Project
Peter Knoop, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The Atlantic City project combines magnetic and gravimetric surveys with standard geological field mapping techniques. Lack of outcrops and Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) are a key features of the mapping area, and ...

Water Retention - No Problem With The Key (Vertebrates&Invertebrates) Investigation
Don Fraser, Oak Crest Elementary, Belle Plaine, MN
This lesson helps grade 3 students understand the difference between Vertebrates and Invertebrates.

Woolly Mammoth Excavation and Lab Work
Janis Treworgy, Principia College
students participate in authentic research project w/ scientists students learn scientific process through experience students participate in all aspects of the project including problem solving

Correlating building stone type with building age to introduce the concept of dating rocks using index fossils
Wayne Powell, CUNY Brooklyn College
Contributed by: Wayne Powell, Brooklyn College Topics: building stones, rocks, rock properties, correlation, relative and absolute dating, index fossils, geologic history Course Type: introductory level This ...