I like to keep things lively and hands-on, so I love to take my students outside. In many lecture courses that is not always possible, so we rely on the labs to get students’ hands dirty. That’s when I get jealous of our lab coordinator who gets to take our students to measure dinosaur tracks, collect invertebrates in nearby streams, or map the rocks on Trinity’s beautiful campus.<\/p>\n
In upper-level courses that do not have a lab I try to take my students into the field as much as possible. In my soil science class I take my students into the field digging soil pits and analyzing soil profiles. In my first-year seminar we spent Trinity Days in New Hampshire photographing the White Mountains in beautiful fall colors. Every year we are taking students on a fieldtrip. Last year we went to Utah, the year before we froze our butts off in Iceland. Who knows where we will go next.
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