What sort of labs for earth science?

[JanetC]

I am planning on starting Earth Science with on DD in the fall... I've seen that Tarbuck is the hands down favorite textbook. Any favorite labs (books, websites, kits, favorite experiments, etc)?

 

I'm not sure where to start... Rock identification is an obvious set of labs. Maybe analyzing weather statistics. What else?

 

Thanks!

[Lindi]

I don't know which Tarbuck you are using but we were able to buy, for not too much, a the Printice Hall Lab book on Amazon (unused second hand or overstock). I'm sure it would work for any book if you just moved the labs around. Let's see, we did the rock classification, we made contour maps, used a pump to recover oil, distilled salt water, built a simple seismograph, analyzed pressure systems and severe weather graphs, modeled green house affect, measured water density and some more things. We didn't do everything in the book. As a year long project, we measured pollution at different times of year, different times of day, taking into account traffic congestion and weather conditions (we measured during a major central Arizona dust form with was "fun".)

[JanetC]

Let's see, we did the rock classification, we made contour maps, used a pump to recover oil, distilled salt water, built a simple seismograph, analyzed pressure systems and severe weather graphs, modeled green house affect, measured water density and some more things. We didn't do everything in the book. As a year long project, we measured pollution at different times of year, different times of day, taking into account traffic congestion and weather conditions (we measured during a major central Arizona dust form with was "fun".)

 

 

Thanks for the list! I guess I just assumed that a lab book for a college textbook would require a college-level laboratory. Now that I know it's "do-able", I'll look for the lab book.