The teacher encourages students to seek him out at any time during the school term to discuss problems they are having successfully completing any parts of the course. Students learn strategies for taking geology lecture and lab tests. Students are encouraged to purchase copies of past lecture test questions available in the bookstore so they can observe how test questions are worded and as practice for the current term's exams. Both of the above also are designed to help reduce test anxiety for students, especially for those for whom science has been daunting in the past. Condensing and summarizing.
Students learn how to take notes in a science class.
Teacher summarizes each lecture's major topics, then uses a series of overhead transparencies as examples of those topics and their applications in the real world. Techniques for organizing knowledge. Students learn the differences among definitions, properties, and procedures. Teacher places a daily outline on an overhead projector which should help students organize their notes and for studying for lecture exams. Familiarity with different learning strategies.