Teaching and Learning Geology

This very site has a blog for its home page, with frequent postings that accept comments. About Geology isn't just a blog, but the site would be quite different without it.

Stories about learning experiences from geologists who made mistakes.

Rocks and minerals can be found everywhere, but there is a learning process involved.

Scientific observation is a refined version of an everyday skill.

A candy wrapper shows how geologists differ from the rest of us.

The health of the profession depends on basic good behavior.

Visualize in three dimensions with photo stereopairs.

About Chemistry Guide Anne Helmenstine has this easy-to-use periodic table.

Go past the science soundbites and dig up the facts yourself.

How a seismic refraction line is prepared and recorded.

Portraits of mountains, small and large, from all over the world.

There's more to the literature than just the journals, which constitute the open literature.

Hints from Earth scientists on finding the best papers in the literature

After seeing 30,000 different sites, a small set of rules about the good ones.

A pioneering college Web site earned a medal in 1997 and still looks pretty good.

Leslek Pawlovicz reviews geologic apps for the Android platform.

An Earthcache is an educational virtual geocache or physical site that people can visit to view a unique geoscience feature on-the-ground.

Harmon Maher of the University of Omaha says, among other things, "The most common error is to pay too much attention to your professors."

Dozens of undergraduate and graduate courses available from the MIT Open Courseware site.

People tell their tricks and tips for grasping millions adn billions of years.