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Leung, DDV and dePolo, PE (2023) GC Insights: The crystal structures behind mineral properties – a case study of using TotBlocks in an undergraduate optical mineralogy lab. Geoscience Communication, 6 (4). pp. 125-129. ISSN 2569-7102
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Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-6-125-2023
Abstract
Spatial thinking represents an ongoing challenge in geoscience education, but concrete manipulatives can bridge this gap by illustrating abstract concepts. In an undergraduate optical mineralogy lab session, TotBlocks were used to illustrate how crystal structures influence properties such as cleavage and pleochroism. More abstracted properties, e.g., extinction angles, were increasingly difficult to illustrate using this tool.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences Q Science > QE Geology |
| Divisions: | Biological and Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19) |
| Publisher: | Copernicus Publications |
| Date of acceptance: | 21 August 2023 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 17 September 2024 |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2024 15:48 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2024 16:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.5194/gc-6-125-2023 |
| URI: | https://ljmu-9.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/24169 |
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