Dr. Pamela Gore
Georgia Perimeter College

Basic Information about this course

  1. Sample Course Syllabus - see your instructor or WebCT course for your syllabus

  2. Required materials for this course. Order your books online here. Please order now.

  3. To register for this course, apply to Georgia Perimeter College now! Click here to link to Admissions web page for Application form.

    Summer Semester 2004 classes begin May 19, 2004 and end July 28, 2004 (Final exam July 30-August 2, or email instructor to arrange a proctor).

    There still may be time to apply for admission, up to a week or so before the semester starts although the published deadline has passed. Most people taking this course will be "Special Status" students with a Bachelors degree. You will need an official transcript sent to GPC showing proof of degree. There is a $20.00 application fee. Non-refundable.

    Distance Learning course tuition is $336 ($84 per credit x 4 credits), plus a technology fee of $38 (as of summer 2004; subject to change).

    To receive academic credit for this course, you must apply for admission and be officially accepted before you can register for the class. Apply online, and register when you receive your acceptance. For assistance with Admissions, please contact Douglas Ruch at 404-299-4551. You will need to register for GEOL 2650K-194, 4 credit hours. You must work under the supervision of an online GPC instructor in order to receive college credit.

  4. Accessing the online course in WebCT Vista

  5. Links to Online Teaching and Learning Resources

  6. Links to Science Teaching Standards and Resources

  7. Textbook Publisher's Web Site

Interactive Course Outline

Lecture Notes Activities Related Web Sites
Introduction to Earth & Space Science
Metric System
Matter

Basics of Chemistry

     

Introduction to Geology
Topographic Maps

Stone Mountain Topographic Map Exercise

Locate topographic maps, aerial photos, and satellite images

Information about maps and map reading

Minerals and Rocks
Minerals

Dr. Gore's Handy Dandy Guide to Mineral Identification. Note: There may be additional minerals in your lab that are not on this list.

Identify minerals in the Ward's "Know your Minerals" Collection

Quiz on Minerals and Chemistry is in WebCT.

Igneous Rocks

Igneous Rock Classification Chart

Identify igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks in the Ward's "Know your Rocks" Collection

Quiz on rock cycle, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks is in WebCT.

Sedimentary Rocks

Metamorphic Rocks

The Rock Cycle

Earth's External Processes
Earth's Surface Features

Landforms

Do exercises in lab manual on:
Running Water and Groundwater

Quiz on Earth's External Processes in WebCT. Covers landforms, Earth's surface features, Weathering, Erosion and Mass Wasting, Soil, and Flooding

Soil

Constructive and destructive forces

Hydrologic Cycle, Running Water, Erosion, and Sediment Transport

Groundwater

Earth's Internal Processes
   

Volcanoes

Modelling the asthenosphere with cornstarch

Do exercises in lab manual on:
1. Earthquakes and the Earth's Interior
2. Geologic Maps and Structures

Quiz on Earth's Internal Processes in WebCT
Covers Interior of the Earth, Plate Tectonics, Crustal deformation (folds and faults), Mountain building, Earthquakes, Volcanoes.

Crustal Deformation -
Folds and Faults
Earthquakes
Interior of the Earth
Plate Tectonics
Mountain building

     

Geology of Georgia - UGA Do Geology and Geography of Georgia Lab using Geologic Highway Map of the SE US

Fossils and Geologic Time
Age of the Earth

Relative Dating

Radiometric Dating

Do exercise in lab manual:
Determining Geologic Ages

Evolution Assignment

Optional fossil casting activity

Geologic time line activity

Relative dating assignment

Quiz on Fossils and Geologic Time in WebCT
Covers Age of the Earth, Relative dating, Radiometric dating, Geologic time scale, Evolutionary and geologic events through time, Fossils, and Fossil Preservation

Learn the Geologic Time Chart:

These pages have many pictures. May be slow to download. Please be patient.

Geologic Time Scale

Precambrian

Paleozoic

Mesozoic

Cenozoic

Fossils and Evolution
Midterm will cover all material up to this point
Introduction to Oceanography
Salinity Oceanography Assignment
Do exercises in lab manual:
1. Exercise 9 (Introduction to Oceanography)
2. Exercise 10 (The Dynamic Ocean Floor)
3. Exercise 11 (Waves, Currents,and Tides)
  • Why is the ocean salty?
  • Saline water
  • Where is Earth's water located?
  • Glaciers and ice caps - storehouses of fresh water
  • Oceanography course resources on the Internet
  • Buoyancy
      

    Waves

    Tides

    Currents

    Sea Level Changes

    Ocean Floor

    Online Oceanography Quiz in WebCT
    Introduction to Weather & Climate
    The Atmosphere Weather Assignment

    Ozone Layer
         

    Cloud Types and Weather Cloud in the bottle lab activity
    Air Masses

    Fronts

    Meteorology Lab Manual Assignment

    Atmospheric Pressure Systems Make your own barometer

    Relative Humidity and Dew Point Humidity Lab Manual Assignment - Atmospheric moisture, pressure,and wind
    Weather Maps Weather Forecasting

    Wind,
    Global Wind Systems,
    and the
    Coriolis Effect
         

    Climate
         

    Global Climate Change

    Greenhouse Effect

         

    Acid Rain

         

    Online Meteorology-Climatology Quiz in WebCT
    Astronomy
    Introduction to Astronomy
    The Planets

    Terrestrial Planets

    Jovian Planets
    • Jupiter
    • Saturn
    • Uranus
    • Neptune
  • Pluto
  •      

    Minor Solar System Objects:
    Asteroids, Meteoroids, Comets
         

    The Moon

    Phases of the Moon

    Eclipses
         

     
    The Sun
         

     
    Spectra of Stars Make a simple hand-held spectroscope

    Stars
         

    Life Cycle of the Stars
         

     
    Galaxies
         

         

    Origin of the Universe
         

    Origin of the Earth and Solar System
         

     
    Geocentric and Heliocentric models of the solar system
         

     
    Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
         

     
    The Space Program
    Planetary Exploration
    Space technology research exercise. Do a web or literature search for information on ways in which the space program technologies have affected everyday life. List products we use today that were developed for use in space.

     
    Online Astronomy Quiz in WebCT
    Final Exam will cover entire course

    Links to other geology sites

    Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
    Try the "Ask-A-Geologist" service offered by the U.S. Geological Survey. If you have an e-mail account, try sending e-mail to this address:
    ask-a-geologist@octopus.wr.usgs.gov


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    This page was created for the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia P-16 Council by Dr. Pamela J. W. Gore
    Department of Geology
    Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston Campus
    555 North Indian Creek Drive
    Clarkston, GA 30021-2396.
    pgore@gpc.edu

    Created May-June 2000
    Modified July 23, 2000
    Modified January 13, 2001
    Modified February 3, 2001
    Modified April 18 - 20, 2001
    Modified November 26, 2001
    Modified January 17, 2002
    Modified March 18, 2002
    Modified April 22, 2002
    Modified June 2, 2002
    Modified August 23, 2002
    Modified January 9, 2003
    Modified June 6, 2003
    Modified May 6, 2004