Summary Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology, 10th edition AGI American Geological Institute Vincent

Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology, 10th edition AGI American Geological Institute Vincent © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. 5 BEFORE YOU TEACH A LABORATORY BEFORE LAB BEGINS 1. Decide what activities your students should complete before and during the lab. Most labs deliberately include more activities than your students could complete in a single lab period, so you can choose the activities that you think will best enable your students to learn what you expect them to learn in the lab time available. 2. Check the list of errata (page 4 in this Instructor Manual) for corrections that must be made in the lab that you plan to use. 3. Assign pre-lab preparations for your students to complete. This may include: a. Complete the first activity of the lab and by the start of the lab. b. Watch the pre-lab video for the lab. c. Take a pre-lab quiz using MasteringGeologyTM or other quiz of your design. d. Complete assigned readings in the lab manual, class textbook, or other. e. Know what activities must be completed by the end of the lab period. f. Know what materials each student must bring to the start of the lab (as noted in the blue boxes of the lab manual that start of each activity and as noted at the start of each laboratory section of this Instructor Manual). 4. Review and assemble the Instructor Materials that you must provide during the lab period. A list of the Instructor Materials is provided in this instructor manual, at the start of each for each lab section. They are generic lists only and must be modified by you to avoid confusion and know exactly what to assemble for the laboratory. 5. Review each activity and the Answers to Questions (provided in this instructor manual) for each activity/question that you assign to your students. Some questions have more than one right answer depending on how you have presented material for students to read or explore. 6. Analyze pre-lab results, if you are assigned a pre-lab quiz using MasteringGeologyTM or a similar program. Use that information to isolate weaknesses and misconceptions of a student or class. Then build a plan for intervention that makes the most of the time that students will have in the laboratory. 7. Develop the scope and sequence of the teaching/learning plan that you plan to follow during the lab period. a. What will you do at the start the lab period? For example, you may: Declare the scope and sequence of what students must do during the lab period, how they are expected to do/record their own work yet work and/or work in collaborative groups, and the safety practices that they must follow. Review pre-lab weaknesses and misconceptions and/or use lab PowerPoint to introduce the lab. 6 © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. Review how and where students obtain the materials they need (the materials that you are providing in the lab). Address questions. b. What will you do during the lab period? For example, you may: Allow students to work on activities at their own pace or according to your other plan. Move about the room to be sure students/groups have the materials they need and are on task. Address questions, use guiding questions of your own to help students scaffold from the unknown to the known (or inability to ability), and implement personal interventions as needed (especially relative to pre-lab quiz results and special-needs). c. What will you do near/at the end of the lab period? For example, you may: Review the results of each activity (item by item or the Reflect and Discuss questions for formative purposes (i.e., to guide learning). Have students submit their individual worksheets for summative assessment (evaluation for a grade). Have students complete a graded post-lab quiz. Have students address the Think About It questions linked to the lab and/or the activities that they completed. DURING THE LAB PERIOD 8. Carry out the plan that you developed above, in parts 7a and 7b. AT/NEAR THE END OF THE LAB PERIOD 9. Carry out the plan that you developed above, in part 7c. 10. Grade materials and provide grades and feedback to students in a timely fashion. 11. Reflect on any feedback about the lab that students may have volunteered and use it to inform/guide your grading and future teaching.