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TABLE 1. Summary of Storyline, Concepts, and Example Tasks for AR Field Trip Modules

GCX Geologic Time GCX Geologic Structures GCX Hydrologic Structures

Storyline Grand Canyon raft trip with players eddying Players are rafting down the Colorado River Raft trip through Grand Canyon with a
out at amazing places with features that help through Grand Canyon with extensive hikes USGS water monitoring crew, along the way
us decipher Earth’s vast history. Some field up and down side canyons, camping at taking measurements and conducting
trip stops involve short hikes up side amazing places that have been deformed by surveys of changes in water flow rates,
canyons. tectonic activity. pathways and usage.

Curriculum content Stratigraphic principles Tectonic forces Hydrologic cycle
-Original horizontality -Stress, strain, deformation -Discharge
-Superposition
-Lateral continuity Folds Fluvial hydrology
-Cross cutting relations -Syncline -Channel types
-Monocline
Unconformities Sediment transport
-Disconformity Faults -Entrainment
-Nonconformity -Normal -Types of load
-Angular unconformity -Reverse -Transport capacity
-Strike slip
Relative dating Groundwater
Numeric dating Measuring structures -Springs
Human vs. geologic time -Strike and dip
-Geologic maps Human influence
-Dams

Example field trip stop

Example iSpy activity

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