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| Pictured is the Hands on Sequence Stratigraphy Kit created |
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| Enjoying the kit at the VT Mineral Show. |
This semester, in addition to social networking tools (Facebook, Blogspot, etc.) a new outreach medium was created. I designed and constructed a hands on learning kit for the project. A small backdrop of the Po Plain Project is included. The public gets to mimic the process of sorting through material and debris to find “shells”. The importance of sorting is also explained in the activity. The outreach activity was performed at a Mineral Show that was held in the Museum of Geosciences, a VT residence hall, as well a community recreation center in Southwest Virginia (Danville). This activity serves as an outreach tool that also can be used on various other projects, so the community can get a hands-on visual experience for larger and more complex projects. On future projects, a kit of this nature can be used, for it can help simplify the complexities of intricate projects, and further help these ideas be presented to the public.
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