Often we have to teach about phenomenon, like an earthquake, that our students have never experienced. We can read eyewitness accounts, watch videos and share stories – but nothing beats actually feeling the ground move. Some are lucky enough
One of the reasons I fell in love with geology was finding evidence of igneous activity in the form of a dike through the sandstones where I grew up. You see, I grew up in an area where you
Gold – the metal on which many empires have grown (and withered) is a strange metal indeed. In nature it occurs as a native metal, which means that it is found almost all the time as just gold and not
An EarthCache is a special place that you can visit using GPS technology to learn more about the geology of our planet – and what is more there are over 20,000 EarthCache sites around the globe. So that means almost
How hard is a mineral? Geoscientists still use mineral hardness as a way to identify an unknown mineral. This process of using mineral hardness was perfected by a German called Mohs in the early 1800’s. Friedrich Mohs was born
We are all looking at ways to collect and display data with our students. Most of the time the data we want to display is short term data – such as a one-lab experiment or maybe data over a weekend.
Basalt. It’s the fine grained igneous rock that makes up the sea floor and sometimes spews forth from volcanoes on the continents. End of story right? Wrong! That black rock sample I remember sitting in my classroom draw
Deep Time is the term used by scientists to describe the vast amount of time that has passed since the formation of the universe. It is an amazing.. 13,820,000,000 years long For many of us we can almost remember back to
The Permian period of time started around 299 million years ago when the Earth was in the deep freeze of an ice age. Most of the land on Earth was joined together into one huge continent that geologists call
G’day, Howdy and Hi, My name is Gary Lewis and I am an enthusiastic and passionate geoscientist. I grew up and studied in Australia and then moved to the USA in 2003. I have worked as a school teacher, in