Integrating teaching with field research in the Wagon Rock Project

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 227-235

  Anderson, Kai Stephen ^a   Hickson, Thomas Andrew ^a   Crider, Juliet Gage ^a   Graham, Stephan Alan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth science teaching and curriculum; Education geoscience; Geology field trips and field study

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; FIELDWORK;

EID: 0032833595     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/1089-9995-47.3.227     Document Type: Article

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