The Athol Fault in western Massachusetts |
A collaborative workshop and field trip of students and teachers of SOAR-high and geologists at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst researching Fault System EvolutionMay 3- May 7, 2006 |
Goals of the trip:
For students and teachers to apply techniques and understanding gained from sandbox observations to real-live full-scale geologic faults in the field. We anticipate that this will be the first geologic field experience for many students and teachers. We will emphasize 1) how geologists document fault features and 2) how analog experiments and field observations work together to enhance our geologic understanding.
Geologists
University of Massachusetts
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United States Geological Survey
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Colorado State Univeristy
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Teachers and Students
Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD) |
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North Carolina School for the Deaf (NCSD) |
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Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf (MSAD) |
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Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) |
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University high School (UHS) |
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Interpreters
Day
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Events
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Lodging
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Wednesday, May 3 |
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includes breakfast |
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Thursday, May 4 |
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Campus Center includes breakfast |
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Friday, May 5 |
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Campus Center
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Saturday, May 6 |
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Comfort Inn, South Burlington, VT | ||
Sunday, May 8 |
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Learning objectives:
In addition to visiting a wonderful variety of rocks within western Massachusetts, students will synthesize their observations on Thursday's field trip to local sites with their tectonic understanding developed from sandbox experiments performed at their schools before the trip.
On Friday from 4:30-6:00 in Morrill Science Center rom 254, students will present on one of three topics
presentation topic | materials | students |
Contractional mountain building |
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ISD and UHS |
Extension and rifting |
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MSSD: KJ and MSAD |
Interplay of erosion and mountain building |
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MSSD: ME and NCSD |
Sandbox faulting in high school classrooms | Pedagogy of observing and interpreting sandbox deformation | Kamilla, Mary, Chris, Mike, Jana and Teresa |
On the weekend field trip SOAR-high and UMass students will team together to interpret deformed rocks of the Appalachian mountains.
UMass Structural Geology students:
Peter Ames, Brandon Fleming, Evan Gearity, Brenda Gomez, Patrick Getty, Erik Heflin, Hossana Lillydahl-Schroeder, Karen Miller |
Mary Ellsworth made a complementary field trip site that is very useful for students