Earth Lab: Exploring the Earth Sciences

For each lab, the wide selection of activities provides instructors with more than enough options to design their own labs based on their own particular resources and preferences.

With the help of an extensive visual imagery, in conjunction with helpful and innovative identification mazes, students learn to identify a variety of minerals and rocks. Beyond this students are encouraged to grasp as much as possible about the story told by a rock.

The book covers traditional skills expected in introductory geology lab books, but also includes many simple innovative hands-on activities that enhance learning and get students involved.

With easily available materials students create a model of an area to develop an understanding of how they can effectively combine data-gathering and analysis to deduce the area's geology.