Beyond Hands On: Incorporating Kinesthetic Learning in an Undergraduate Paleontology Class

摘要: Hands-on learning in paleontology, and geology general, is fairly common practice. Students regularly use rocks, fossils, data the classroom throughout their undergraduate career, but they typically do it sitting a chair lab. Kinesthetic teaching model that requires students to be physically active while learning. may involved physical activity during class or might using own bodies some important concept. This paper briefly discusses theory behind kinesthetic how fits into student-centered, active-learning classroom. It then describes detail methods for incorporating student exercises on biostratigraphy, assessment of sampling completeness, modeling evolutionary processes. Assessment demonstrates these have led significantly improved outcomes tied concepts.