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- Title
Place-Based Educational Activities Inspired by the Socorro Magma Body.
- Authors
Cahill, Hope
- Abstract
One of the largest active magma bodies within Earth's continental crust lies ~19 km beneath the Socorro, New Mexico region of the Rio Grande Rift. Since the mid-1960s, scientists have utilized various methods to discover and characterize the magma body, its history, and its impact on the surrounding environs. This article presents an introductory and related hands-on activity designed to complement a recent National Science Foundation-funded study of the Socorro magma body by then-PhD student Brad Sion under the direction of Drs. Gary Axen, Fred Phillips, Bruce Harrison, and Jolante van Wijk of the Earth and Environmental Science Department at NMT and compatible with MS-ESS2-2 of the Next Generation Science Standards. Through these place-based educational learning experiences, students acquire the evidence required to satisfy this expectation in an engaging manner that reflects the work done by scientists within the geoscience fields.
- Publication
Earth Scientist, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 2, p10
- ISSN
1045-4772
- Publication type
Article