Student Learning Outcomes SLOs

Student Learning Outcomes

The student learning outcomes (SLOs) below represent the principal learning objectives for this class. Your understanding of SLOs will be assessed in module quizzes and exams, SLO quizzes, and on the Final Exam. Each module presents a curriculum that will help you meet each of the SLOs.

1. Students demonstrate the ability to use the scientific method

2. Students can describe the geologic processes, the relative movement of plates, and the distinguishing landforms associated with each type of plate boundary

3. Students can use physical properties to identify minerals and can explain mineral-forming processes

4. Students can explain the rock cycle, differentiate among the three types of rocks, and use texture and composition to identify common rocks and their origins

5. Students can describe the eruptive and physical characteristics of different types of volcanoes

6. Students can describe the role weathering, mass wasting, and erosion play in shaping Earth’s surface and can provide and/or identify examples of each of these processes

7. Students can relate tectonic stresses to plate boundaries, geologic structures, crustal deformation, and the building of mountains

8. Students can differentiate between constructive and destructive geologic processes, can explain the energy driving these processes, and can identify examples of each

Each module will cover more specific learning objectives, which will be introduced at the start of each module. Your textbooks also list learning objectives that highlight the principal learning objectives of the assigned reading.

SLOs and reading and module learning objectives should be considered study guides for quizzes and exams.