Re: paleonet Suggestions for intro paleo lab

[Brandon Nuttall <bnuttall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jennifer,

A friend of mine recently took over teaching paleo. His idea was to require 
the students to do a project. Each student:

1) selected an outcrop
2) measured, described, and photographed the section
3) made a fossil collection of the locality (including microfossils)
4) photographed the collection
5) identified as many fossils as they could (it wasn't required that they 
identify everything they collected)
6) used the information they collected to do a paleoecological 
reconstruction and a web page to document their work

Here in central Kentucky, he had just one condition: that the outcrop 
selected could not be Middle Ordovician. BTW, the "final" was a review of 
the completed project. Students could work in teams, that is support each 
other, but each student had to have their own outcrop.

Brandon C. Nuttall

BNUTTALL@KGS.MM.UKY.EDU Kentucky Geological Survey
(859) 257-5500                  University of Kentucky
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