Sleuthing Through the Rock Cycle: An Online Guided Inquiry Tool for Middle and High School Geoscience Education

• DOI: 10.5408/12-326.1
• Publication Date: 2013-08-27
• Authors: L. A. Schifman; Dawn Cardace; Karen M. Kortz; Karen Saul; Amber Gilfert; A.I. Veeger; Daniel P. Murray

The rock cycle is a key component of geoscience education at all levels. In this paper, we report on new guided inquiry curricular module, Sleuthing Through the Rock Cycle, which has blended online/offline constructivist design with comprehensive teaching notes and been successful in pilot use Rhode Island middle high school classrooms over past 3 y. module consists two overarching activities: (1) SherRock Holmes Case Mystery Samples, (2) Cracking Changing Rocks. encourages hands-on activities, peer collaboration, real-time teacher review embedded textual reflection components. Overall, teachers that an outstanding tool associated professional development empowering. 2013 National Association Geoscience Teachers. [DOI: 10.5408/12-326.1]