{"id":58488,"date":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-create-educational-materials-for-geology-trail-at-canonchet-farm\/"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-create-educational-materials-for-geology-trail-at-canonchet-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/05\/uri-students-create-educational-materials-for-geology-trail-at-canonchet-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 students create educational materials for geology trail at Canonchet Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 17, 2016 \u2013 Visitors to Canonchet Farm in Narragansett \u2013 and its website \u2013 will soon have the opportunity to learn about the site\u2019s unique geology thanks to students in a 溏心vlog免费B站 geology class. The 23 students worked with the Friends of Canonchet Farm to create an informative flier, virtual tour, teacher\u2019s guide and children\u2019s activities that will soon be uploaded to the group\u2019s website, Canonchet Farm<\/a> and be available at the farm.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe Friends created the geology trail, and they\u2019ve been maintaining it, but they wanted to make more people aware of it,\u201d said Beth Laliberte, who teaches the 溏心vlog免费B站 course Landforms: Origin and Evolution. \u201cThere are some interesting geological features at the farm, and I was happy to get my students involved.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe historic property dates to the 1700s and was farmed by the area\u2019s original settlers. Owned by the town of Narragansett, the farm\u2019s 174 acres include a wide variety of natural habitats, as well as a historic cemetery, apple orchard and caretaker\u2019s house. The South County Museum is also located on the property.<\/p>\n


\n\tLaliberte said the site features natural geologic formations related to the Earth\u2019s last period of glaciation, as well as stone walls and cemetery headstones that represent geological materials modified by humans. \u201cThis was a different kind of project than I usually have my students work on, but it turned out really well and we were all happy to get involved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tHer students agree.<\/p>\n


\n\tIan Chernasky, a junior geology major from Burrillville, helped create the virtual field trip. He was responsible for collecting data and images from each of the 10 points of interest along the route and importing them into Google Earth.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was awesome to see a project come together into something that you can be proud of,\u201d Chernasky said. \u201cI learned a lot about the local history and geology of the area around the University, how millions of years of geologic activity worked to shape the area into what it is today.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tJane Barnes, a junior history major from Glocester, enrolled in the class because she thought it would provide excellent background for a career working for the National Park Service. She helped create the children\u2019s activities and enjoyed modeling them after those produced by the Park Service.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe project was great because it gave our class the opportunity to do some hands-on work and community outreach and really get involved with real-life geologic work,\u201d she said. \u201cThe neat thing about this project was that it was pretty free-form, so there was plenty of room for creativity. It really helped teach us how to brainstorm and make our ideas happen.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tFor Caroline Amelse, a geology major who earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in social work from the University of Hawaii in 2013, the project was the first chance she has had to combine her interests in social work, geology and graphic design into one activity.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cDr. Laliberte allowed us to bring our unique skills to the table to benefit the larger group,\u201d said Amelse, a Barrington resident who designed the educational flier about the trail. \u201cThis project really helped me practice synthesizing my geology knowledge with community outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tSenior Konrad Poznanski of Griswold, Conn., worked on the children\u2019s activities and especially enjoyed walking the geology trail to learn about the geologic history of the area. \u201cThe project gave me a deeper appreciation for the field of geology and how little details that most people miss can tell a lot about the area and what occurred millions of years ago,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n


\n\tKathie Kelleher of Friends of Canonchet Farm was very pleased with how each of the elements of the project turned out.<\/p>\n


\n\t“I must admit, when I started talking to Beth about her class tackling a trail guide, I wondered how it could possibly come out looking like what I had in mind,\u201d Kelleher said. \u201cThe four different aspects of the job were the students’ ideas, and they all turned out incredibly better than I ever imagined. I am excited about finishing the job by having the flier, teacher’s guide, and student activity sheets printed and distributed.”<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: 溏心vlog免费B站 student Anders Brandon leans on a stone wall at Canonchet Farm in Narragansett while studying the geology of the area for a class project.

\nPhoto by Konrad Poznanski.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 17, 2016 \u2013 Visitors to Canonchet Farm in Narragansett \u2013 and its website \u2013 will soon have the opportunity to learn about the site\u2019s unique geology thanks to students in a 溏心vlog免费B站 geology class. The 23 students worked with the Friends of Canonchet Farm to create an informative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}