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Geology Online Lab Activities: An Open Educational Resource for Community College Students and Instructors

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Rondi Davies, CUNY Queensborough Community College

Copyright Year: 2022

Publisher: CUNY Academic Works

Language: English

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Reviewed by Brent Silvis, Natural Science Faculty, Leech Lake Tribal College on 12/13/22

Overall, this book covers much of what you would expect to cover in an Intro to Geology course. Some topics such as hydrology and Earth System Science are not included. There is a teacher's guide that accompanies this which contains some... read more

Table of Contents

  • 1. How do scientists study Earth?
  • 2. Mineral resources and how we use them
  • 3. What are the different types of plate boundaries?
  • 4. How do we classify igneous rocks, and where do they form?
  • 5. What do sedimentary rocks tell us about the past?
  • 6. How can we read metamorphic rocks?
  • 7. How do scientists measure earthquakes?
  • 8. How do we measure geological time?
  • 9. Glacial Landforms of New York
  • 10. Geography and Landforms of New York
  • 11.1 How is climate changing?
  • 11.2 How is climate changing?
  • 12.1 AMNH Hall of Planet Earth Field Trip 
  • 12.2 AMNH Hall of Planet Earth Field Trip (online)

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About the Book

The online geology lab for community college students was developed by Dr. Rondi Davies, a faculty member at Queensborough Community College, City University New York, during two years of forced online synchronous learning brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This open educational resource collects many of Dr. Davies’ favorite open-access materials and supplements them with her own work within a single, cohesive laboratory manual intended for two-year, non-major college students from the New York area.

 

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Author

Dr. Rondi Davies is an Assistant Professor in Geology at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. She is also a Research Associate and former faculty of the MAT program at the American Museum of Natural History. Rondi received her PhD in Geology at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. She has worked as an Earth science educator in many different settings and has researched and developed science content for educational software groups, text books, and museums. 

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