Teacher’s Corner
Teacher’s Corner is a column in our geologic newsletter, Survey Notes.
Integrating Survey Notes Articles in the Classroom
- Needing a great resource for teaching your students about Utah fossils?
- The Great Energy Debate
- Earthquakes – Wasatch Fault
- Igneous and Metamorphic Geology of Utah
- Groundwater
Activities
- Reading a stone wall
- Use a settling container to determine the relative amount of sand, silt, and clay in sediment
- Dome Mountains (Geological Features and Processes in Utah)
- Volcanoes (Geological Features and Processes in Utah)
Articles
- The Dome/Diapir/Dome Mountain Dilemma
- Easily Accessible Examples of Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Rocks in Wasatch Front Canyons
- Geologic Stretching – How many inches per year do Salt Lake City, Utah and Reno, Nevada move away from each other?
- The Earth’s Surface, the only Constant is Change.
- Why are natural resources, such as coal, found in some places but not others?
