This week is all about the Earth, how it changes, how old it is, how big it is, the worlds it contains and the worlds beyond it.
Due to convener illness and some uncertainty over next week's strike situation, guidance for this week is a bit delayed.
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Weather- and health-permitting, go to Holyrood Park and describe the different patterns you see in the rock there. How might these be evidence of the changing state of the Earth’s surface? (Before or afterward, look up Hutton’s Section via Curious Edinburgh.)
Look back at the goals you had or revised from earlier in the course. Are you on track? What do you need to do in the last two weeks of instruction so that you will be prepared to finish your assessment on your own in April? The teaching team is here to help!
A. Exploration and cultural contact always involves seeing new people and places in light of old knowledge, experiences, and assumptions. Identify an example of this or compare two examples from the course materials, discussing how specific historical figures encountered new worlds through the lens of old worlds.
B. The history of geology has involved looking closely at distinctive places to reason about distant times. Discussing one or more specific examples from the course materials, explain how scientific thinkers have converted analyses of local places into understandings of time and geological transformation.
C. Changing infrastructures of collecting information from different places have been fundamental to efforts to define and explain climates at different scales. Identify an information infrastructure or technology from the course materials and examine its role in enabling people to produce climatological knowledge.