TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goldsmith,David W.
TI  - Beyond hands on: incorporating kinesthetic learning in an undergraduate paleontology class 
T2  - Cambridge elements
SN  - 9781108681544 (ebook)
AV  - QE715 .G65 2018
U1  - 560.71 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - Activity programs
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2018)
N2  - Hands-on learning in paleontology, and geology in general, is fairly common practice. Students regularly use rocks, fossils, and data in the classroom throughout their undergraduate career, but they typically do it sitting in a chair in a lab. Kinesthetic learning is a teaching model that requires students to be physically active while learning. Students may be involved in a physical activity during class or might be using their own bodies to model some important concept. This paper briefly discusses the theory behind kinesthetic learning and how it fits into a student-centered, active-learning classroom. It then describes in detail methods for incorporating it into student exercises on biostratigraphy, assessment of sampling completeness, and modeling evolutionary processes. Assessment data demonstrates that these exercises have led to significantly improved student learning outcomes tied to these concepts
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108681544
ER  -