15 Easy-to-Incorporate Inquiry-Based Activities for the K–16 Classroom
Monday, 12 April 2010
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Compton Ferry
A ROCK SANDWICH
Paper number: 15-6
Program: Theme Sessions
Time: 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Authors
Abstract
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).