Department of Geological Sciences, Binghamton University
The following are labs I have used with my introductory geological sciences course, "The Earth's Dynamic Interior". Many of the students in this course do not have a strong science background, and these are intended to give them hands-on experience with data collection and analysis. Typically the students work in groups, but each writes an original lab report which is graded. I have also used some of these labs with high school and middle school classes with some success.
Note: These lab instructions are copyrighted but are intended to be freely used for any educational purpose.
Here are lab instructions for the last year of GEOL 114 The Earth's Dynamic Interior:
Lab 1 - Seismic Refraction (including field collection of shallow seismic data) - Refraction.pdf
Lab 2 - Water Analysis (using very expensive equipment) - Water Chemistry.pdf
Lab 3 - Seismicity (using IRIS Interactive Earthquake Browser) - Seismicity_Revised.pdf
Lab 4 - Earthquake location (data from IRIS; triangulation on a globe) - Location.pdf
Lab 5 - Rock Deformation (using piston cells) - Deformation.pdf
Lab 6 - Earthquake Magnitude (IRIS data; doesn't work very well) - Magnitude.pdf
Lab 7 - The Earthquake Machine (using sandpaper blocks and springs) - Machine.pdf