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Direct linkAmy Pallant; Christopher Lore; Hee-Sun Lee; Stephanie Seevers; Trudi Lord – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2025
This paper describes how plate tectonics and rock genesis, two topics that are typically addressed separately in secondary Earth science classes, can be taught together as an integrated system. We define the TecRocks Reasoning Framework, developed to support student reasoning about rock formation situated in the context of plate tectonics. We also…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Secondary School Students, Geology, Plate Tectonics
