The teachers encourage students to seek them 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. Teacher designs class exercises to help students not only learn the material but also prepare for class exams. These exercises 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.
They require student groups to consult one another's members, the textbook, the class supplement, and materials available in the classroom to answer each day's assignments. These often include applications of the day's topics to what they can see in selected national parks. These are then related to the landscape regions in which these parks occur. Techniques for organizing knowledge. Students learn the differences among definitions, concepts, and procedures.