42 Geoscience Education Research and Practice: Hands-On and Place-Based Learning to the Next Generation Standards (Posters)
Friday, 17 May 2019
9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
Exhibit Hall B
HANDS ON OROGENICS USING THE CASCADES AS A MODEL
Paper number: 42-5
Program: Theme Sessions
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
Authors
Abstract
Using cheap materials, I found a way to teach almost anybody how orogenics involving relative humidity and dew point work. I use clear plastic cups of different sizes representing bodies of air, Styrofoam balls out of a bean bag chair, representing water vapor molecules, a can of compressed air, a bike pump, and a paper bag to collect "precipitation!" Included, in the activity, when we reach the LCL is a fun activity making a cloud in a bottle. This idea has been adopted by the American Meteorological society as one of their Datastreme activities, although they do it a bit differently. I came up with the idea when about 80% of my students failed the quiz on the idea, and in just one period, using this method, the scores reversed with 80% maxing the quiz. Simple, fun, and as the students follow my demonstration at their tables, it sinks in.
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 4
doi: 10.1130/abs/2019CD-329326
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