Surviving Field School

By Clay Farris Naff

David Harwood’s geology
field course for future teachers
is not a network reality
show — but it should
be. The three-week course has all the
humor, drama, exacting challenges and
bleepable moments of “Survivor.” But in
contrast to the staged setups of TV “reality”
shows, Geology 160 offers billions of
years’ worth of authentic geological history
that students see, taste and scrape
from under their fingernails.

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Clay Farris Naff, "Surviving Field School," EARTH, Vol. 54 (No. 9), p. 54.