Title: Exercises for Introductory Environmental-Geology Lecture Courses
Abstract: A series of land-use exercises, culminating in a team project and oral presentation, has been successfully incorporated into a large, introductory, environmental-geology lecture course for non-science majors. A sequence of four interrelated homework exercises are completed along with five similar, ungraded, in-class exercises. The final, in-class exercise is a comprehensive, environmental problem on which the students work in teams for several class meetings. Each team prepares a land-use plan of the same real area for which they have geologic information (maps and a data table), and a consulting budget that permits teams to ask the consultant/instructor up to four questions each. The class is also taken on a slideshow “field trip” of the study area. Upon completion, each team gives an oral presentation, after which questions are fielded from the class. The class is then shown the zoning map of the area along with a more idealized version prepared by the instructor. The exercises enhance learning by havin...
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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