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North-Central Section (44th Annual) and South-Central Section (44th Annual) Joint Meeting (11–13 April 2010)

Paper No. 6
Presentation Time: 9:15 AM

A ROCK SANDWICH


POELKER, Brian, Effingham, IL 62401, bpoelker@frontiernet.net

This inquiry activity is a learning cycle that has been successfully implemented in many classrooms. It creates prior knowledge using objects familiar to students, a stack of playing cards, and extends the knowledge to real world strategraphy. The concept of superposition is emphasized along with the analysis of the paleoenvironment of the local area. In this case, a cyclothem exhibiting a transgressive sequence of deposition in the Mattoon Formation (Penn).

Session No. 15

T23. Easy-to-Incorporate Inquiry-Based Activities for the K–16 Classroom
Monday, 12 April 2010: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM
Compton Ferry (Branson Convention Center)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 42, No. 2, p.57
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