Deformational Sandbox in the Classroom


Why use a sandbox in your classroom?

Large and slow processes with the Earth can be scaled to a table top device and directly obervable

The sandbox is hands on and visual

The sandbox as a physical model facilitates learning

The sandbox can be used for hypothesis testing

The Sandbox experiments meet several national science standards

 

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