The Physical Geology Lecture Tutorials are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. They are intended for educational purposes only.

These “Lecture Tutorials” are designed as illustrative review of individual lectures, followed with a series of questions aimed at addressing student misconceptions. The general idea is that you lecture for 15-20 minutes, the students work through the lecture tutorials for 15-20 minutes, then the class discusses the answers. These offer a consistent active learning formative assessment, and also act as study guides for students.

The Tutorials are accessed by clicking the link sending you to a word document you can download and modify to suit your needs. Preview images are posted below each file link.

List of Tutorials (ones without links are planned to be completed soon). These are page jump links that take you to the individual tutorials below:
Intro to the Earth
Plate Tectonics – History of a Theory
Plate Tectonics – Plate Boundary Types
Atoms and Minerals
Mineral Variation
Rock Cycle
Igneous – Melts
Igneous – Structures
Volcanoes
Weathering and Soil
Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks
Sedimentary Structures and Interpretation
Metamorphism Controlling Factors
Metamorphism Types
Stress and Strain
Folds
Faults
Earthquake Waves
Earthquake Hazards
Geologic Time – Relative Age Principles
Geologic Time – Unconformities
Geologic Time – Numerical Ages
Mass Wasting Controls
Mass Wasting Prevention
Hydrologic Cycle
Streams
Floods
Groundwater Storage and Movement
Groundwater Contamination
Groundwater Geology
Carbon Cycle
Glaciers and Climate Change

Intro to the Earth

Plate Tectonics – History of a Theory

Plate Tectonics – Boundary Types

Atoms and Minerals

Mineral Variation

Rock Cycle

Igneous – Melts

Igneous – Structures

Volcanoes

Weathering and Soil

Sediment and Sedimentary Rocks

Sedimentary Structures and Interpretation

Metamorphism Controlling Factors

Metamorphism Types

Stress and Strain

Folds

Faults

Earthquake Waves

Earthquakes Hazards

Geologic Time – Relative Age Principles

Geologic Time – Unconformities

Geologic Time – Numerical Ages

Mass Wasting Controls

Mass Wasting Prevention

Hydrologic Cycle

Streams

Floods

Groundwater Storage and Movement

Groundwater Contamination

Groundwater Geology

Carbon Cycle

Glaciers and Climate Change

Contact Me if you have any questions or suggestions. The figures are drafted in Illustrator, the atomic model images are produced in Vesta:

K. Momma and F. Izumi, “VESTA 3 for three-dimensional visualization of crystal, volumetric and morphology data,” J. Appl. Crystallogr., 44, 1272-1276 (2011).

I’m happy to share the native files (just ask). I’m also receptive to any website design ideas, as I realize accessing these in the current state is a little clunky.