Take Your Students On A Geologic Field Trip

If you have an outcropping near your school or within the school property, you can use this location to introduce geology to your students. This article provides a full description of a fie... See More

If you have an outcropping near your school or within the school property, you can use this location to introduce geology to your students. This article provides a full description of a field trip that includes simply field geology activities that students can do with the rocks that are exposed. Included in the article is what to do the day after the field trip as well as possible extensions. Even if you don’t have the outcropping you could gather rocks from a real outcropping and allow students to experience and share information from real locations you have brought back to the classroom.

School Yard Geology

So often we forget the obvious - take a fieldtrip in your school's backyard! Great resource to use as a checklist and idea guide for your mini-fieldtrip. Extension and assessment ideas tha... See More

So often we forget the obvious - take a fieldtrip in your school's backyard! Great resource to use as a checklist and idea guide for your mini-fieldtrip. Extension and assessment ideas that are creative and will connect with all middle schoolers.