Open Educational Resources for Geology Courses
Grand Canyon image from the National Park Service, Public Domain
Welcome to OER Geology, a consortium of geoscience professors and graduate students from the University of Houston that create open-access materials for college-level geology courses.
Our OER Products
Investigating the Earth: Exercises for Physical Geology is a lab manual for an introductory physical geology lab class. Questions focus on making observations and higher-order thinking. This is currently in development, with a full draft available now. The official release is planned for Fall 2024.
The Story of Earth: An Observational Guide is a lab manual for a historical geology lab class. The questions focus on observing rocks, minerals, fossils, maps, and graphs, including making sketches. The most recent edition was published for Fall 2023.
Licensing
These lab manuals carry a CC BY-NC-SA license. Others are free to remix, adapt, and build upon our work non-commercially, as long as they credit us and license their new creations under identical terms.
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