K-12 Curriculum Supplements
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Download Chapter 1: Structure and Composition of the Earth: Minerals (379 KB)
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Grade Level
Grades 9-12, Secondary
Document Type
Activity and Lab
Description
The intent of the GEOMES materials is to provide earth science teachers with resources and strategies that will generate interest and enthusiasm among students and teachers for the study of earth science. So there you have it—Geoscience Educational Opportunities for Motivating Every Student (GEOMES). The study of earth science should provide individuals with understandings that prepare them to make more intelligent decisions on processing issues. It should provide students with insights that make the interpretation of events in their environment more meaningful.
The format of the teaching strategies employed in the GEOMES program is designed to attract the student's interest in a phenomena, have the student learn a basic relationship and then apply these relationships in new situations. This strategy is a model used to help develop reasoning skills in our students. Concrete learners need introductory experiences such that they experience mental encounters that challenge them to do their own reasoning to find patterns. Teacher lectures and discussions without appropriate student involvement often stimulate only memorization. The activities in this guide provide thought-provoking activities organized around the topics typically covered in high school earth science. However, the teacher should feel free to add other learning experiences or alter these to fit the interests and needs of the local students. However, we strongly recommend adhering to the learning cycle format of exploratory activities, concept development and application experiences.
Department
Science Education Program
Disciplines
Earth Sciences
Original Date
2012
Copyright
©2012 Jody Stone, Price Laboratory School
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Stone, Jody, "GEOMES (Geoscience Educational Opportunities for Motivating Every Student)" (2012). K-12 Curriculum Supplements. 10.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/k12_supplements/10
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