How to use campus-based learning? - Find Projects that are
Appropriate to the Class - Find Resources and People -
Contribute Back - Assess Student Projects - Maintain a Record -
All campuses have a geoscience context in the form of local
geology (rivers, wetlands, landforms, bedrock geology),
rainfall, building materials, disturbance of the land, and
effect of urbanization on the biosphere. For example: - Carleton
College geology students routinely study the channels of the
Cannon River and Spring Creek, which are on or next to campus.
After a severe storm in 1998, geology students assessed storm
damage and presented their recommendations to campus facilities
management. - At the University of Minnesota, students were
involved in the restoration of a campus wetland, the Sarita
Wetland. Out of this project grew the University of Minnesota
Sustainable Campus Initiative, an ad hoc committee that worked
to use the campus as a teaching tool. The landcare staff and
University of Minnesota faculty now routinely coll