ISP 203 Geology and the Human Environment Lab

Course Description

Geology of the Human Environment Laboratory - Exercises in the scientific method applied to earth materials and their impact on society.

Key teaching duties

The key teaching duties that I performed while instructing this class included:

• Assisted in lesson assessment development
• Instructed students in basic principles of scientific inquiry and generation of hypotheses
• Instructed and assisted students in creation of a hypothesis they would test to provide results as a semester long project
• Instructed introductory labs on the topics of:
  • Field observation
  • Use of Excel for data processing and interpretation
  • Permeability and porosity of surface soils and rocks
  • Sediment size distribution
  • Surface water chemistry
  • Aquatic macroinvertebrates
  • Riparian zone ecology

ISP 203 Example Syllabus