Beyond Hands On Incorporating Kinesthetic Learning in an Undergraduate Paleontology Class

About this book

Hands-on learning in palaeontology, 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. Beyond Hands On briefly discusses the theory behind kinesthetic learning and how it fits into a student-centred, active-learning classroom. It then describes in detail methods for incorporating it into student exercises on biostratigraphy, assessment of sampling completeness, and modelling evolutionary processes. Assessment data demonstrates that these exercises have led to significantly improved student learning outcomes tied to these concepts.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. What Is Kinesthetic Learning?
3. Moving While Learning
4. Assessment
5. Conclusions

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