Teaching Activities

Resistance to Weathering part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to "Click on ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils, Geoscience, Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Isopach Maps part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students complete several short, in-class exercises related to understanding isopach maps. We use Play-Doh models to illustrate features revealed in the isopach maps and to support student understanding of the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Weathering and Sedimentary Processes in Google Streetview part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
This exercise uses Google Streetview, in combination with 360 degree immersive photographs, to show students real-world examples of the sedimentary rocks, sedimentary structures, and weathering processes that they ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Activities, Problem Set, Virtual Field Trip, Real-world Examples, Assessments
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering, Depositional environments, Sedimentary Structures, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils, Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentary Textures , Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Wakemup Pluton part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students work through a set of questions about a geologic map of an igneous intrusion and surrounding rock units. These questions focus students' attention on the topography, geomorphology, lithology, and ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Structural Visualizations, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Metamorphic Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Modeling Structural Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology:Relative dating, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience, Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks, Igneous Processes
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

3D Model of a Geologic Map part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison Naomi Barshi, University of Wisconsin-Madison Carol Ormand, SERC, Carleton College
Students analyze a geologic map of an angular unconformity that truncates a pair of dikes, with some topography. When students have deciphered the map and constructed a cross-section, I show them a Play-Doh model ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Geology:Structural Geology:Structural Visualizations, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology:Relative dating
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Geologic Time part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to "Click on ...

Isostasy Prediction part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...

Earth Layers part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geoscience, Geology:Geophysics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Introduction to Igneous Intrusions part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Students make Play-Doh models of sills and dikes.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience, Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Processes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Hotspot Prediction part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told, "The tectonic ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review