Teacher Friendly Guides to Geology

http://www.priweb.org/ed/TFGuide/guides.htm

Categories: Geochemistry, Geologic time, Geology, Geophysics

The Teacher-Friendly Guides to Geology give educators the background they need to made sense of regioal and local geology in terms of a basic sequence of historical events and processes. This empowers educators to bring local and regional geology into their curricula and facilitates inquiry-based teaching. The Guides help teachers meet national and state science standards by provinding concrete examples of geologic processes that are closer to home than many classic textbook examples. Explaining why geological features occur when and where they do is the most effecive way of providing students with a tool to remember and predict the nature of geology. The Guides are designed and written in a non-technical, clear and easy to use manner. Funded by the National Science Foundation, there are currently Guides written for the Northeast and Southeast regions, with another grant pending with NSF to complete the Guides for the rest of the U.S. The Guides are written and produced by the staff at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York, and are available for free from the URL provided.