General philosophy/rationale for field trips.

            Students need to see in the "real world" the things that they learn about in class.       This both reinforces and clarifies their understanding of such features. For the geologic field trips care has been taken not only to correctly explain the geology but also to arrange the stops in an order that makes it easy for students to relate geology at any one stop to the other stops along the route. For example, on the Mineral Wells field trip we visit stops in order of their relative geologic age, i.e.,  oldest to youngest.

        Please note for the geologic field trips it is especially useful to bring along a good highway map but also the appropriate geologic atlas of Texas (which can be obtained from the state Bureau of Economic Geology).

• Trip to the Abilene Northeast Water Treatment Plant. Do you want more information? Click here.

• Trip to the Abilene Wastewater Treatment Plant. Do you want more information? Click here.

• A field trip to three man-made lakes in the Brazos River System.Do you want more information? Click here

• Trip to the Hargesheimer Water Treatment Plant and Lake Ivie, a man-made lake that is part of the Colorado River System Do you want more information? Then click here.

• Trip to the Browning Ferris Industries Sanitary Landfill. Do you want more information?  Click here.

Field Trips with a Geological Focus

• Field Trip to the Permian and Cretaceous Rocks of the Callahan Divide area south of Abilene. Do you want more info? Click here.

•  Field trip to see the Permian, Cambrian and Precambrian rocks along a route from Abilene to south of  Llano,Texas. Do you want more information? Click here

• All-day trip to see Pennsylvanian age rocks in North Central Texas. Do you want more information? Click here

• Three-day trip to see Tertiary, Cretaceous and Paleozoic rocks in the Big Bend area of Texas Do you want more information? Then click here.

Meteorology Field Trips

• Trip to a TV studio.

       Below are some references for field trips that I have collected for those who would like more information:

References for above field trips
 

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