Teaching Tool Box

Using a Magic Window transparency to find evidence of geologic change at Rodeo Beach. Kirk Wrench NPS

This "Teaching Tool Box" provides access to a variety of activities and lessons which support geology inquiry in the classroom and outdoors. Magic Windows is an innovative way to construct geologic knowledge while viewing a landscape's past or future. I Have Tectonics and Beach Ball Earth help teachers and students review the fundamentals of San Francisco Bay Area plate tectonic history. Cookie Tectonics is a tactile demonstration of geologic processes which formed the scenery we see today.

• Click here for the MagicWindows lesson

• Click here to see the process behind the Magic Window pedagogy

• Click here to see how to make a Magic Window

• Click here for the I Have Tectonics activity

• Click here for the I Have Tectonics script

• Click here for the I Have Tectonics text cards

• Click here for the I Have Tectonics text in Spanish

• Click here for graphics that can be used with the I Have Tectonics text cards

• Click here for the Beach Ball Earth lesson

• Click here for the Cookie Tectonics script

• Below is a video of Cookie Tectonics in action:

 

Duration:

5 minutes

The Cookie Tectonics program presented here by Aurora Perez and Jackson Lam, is a tactile demonstration of geologic processes which formed the scenery we see today. Program by Roxi Farwell, Video by Ricardo Olivares