T154 Teaching Field Geology without the Field: Providing a Robust Capstone Experience through Digital Resources I

Wednesday, 28 October 2020
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Meeting Rooms

A PURPOSE-BUILT (PRE-COVID) ONLINE COURSE IN SOIL MORPHOLOGY: INTEGRATING PHOTOGRAMMETRY, LAB KITS, AND THE WEB TO CREATE A VIRTUAL "FIELD" EXPERIENCE

Paper number: T154-9
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Authors

Abstract

How does one teach pedology online? This presentation illustrates the approach and technical methodology utilized in developing a purpose-built, fully online, upper division undergraduate course in soil morphology that has been taught twice yearly since 2018. Main focus will be on a single module of the course, illustrating how multifarious, active-learning "field" assignments are made using a combination of photogrammetrically-derived 3D soils (pits, peds, & monoliths), physical lab kits with samples from the modeled location, and web-based database/mapping software. As this course began development in 2017, and has been taught four terms, a discussion of pitfalls and missteps we have experienced will also be included in order to help others in their ongoing struggles with COVID-19 adaptations.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 52, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-358228

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