Students must take notes on lectures to do well on lecture exams. Teacher solicits questions from the class. Teacher asks questions of the class based on the lecture material to be included on exams. Students will participate in classroom discussions. Students exchange ideas, support arguments, document solutions, and ask questions orally when interacting with each other and the teacher.
Students have meaningful discussions with each other in laboratory when working in pairs or groups.
Students will write a variety of documents. Students write clear solutions to questions on laboratory exams and on the lab project at the end of the class. Teacher asks leading questions in the laboratory manual to review constantly material students should be learning. Students will understand quantitative problems. Students are introduced to quantitative methods in historical geology, such as calculating radiometric dates for rocks using half-lives of radioactive isotopes, then are asked to apply them.