70 Geoscience Education III: Broadening Participation in the Geosciences through Access, Accommodation, and Inclusion
Monday, 10 October 2011
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 208CD
ON TEACHING A TOTALLY BLIND STUDENT PHYSICAL AND HISTORICAL GEOLOGY
Paper number: 70-5
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM
Authors
Abstract
Teaching the salient points of both physical and historical geology to a totally blind student was accomplished through a very short-time pre-planning window, extra staff, continual daily preparation, low-cost supplies, team work, and at times, ‘on-the-spot’ creativity. Challenges to teaching Structural Geology, Geologic Field Methods, and Geology Field Camps will also be addressed.