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Important Notes

• A video conference will begin at the starting time each week for the lab section in which you are a registered student. You can ask questions related to the lab assignments during the weekly video conference. Each weekly conference will be accessible via a Microsoft Teams channel associated with your lab section. You can learn how to access your Microsoft 365 subscription as a Baylor student via https://www.baylor.edu/its/index.php?id=871490.
• The reading assignments are in the required textbooks listed at the bottom of this document.
• The completed laboratory activities assigned below must be submitted via the Canvas learning management system (LMS) before 11:59 PM Central Time on the day after the day on which your laboratory section is scheduled to meet (e.g., due before Wednesday night at 11:59 PM for a lab scheduled on Tuesday). Instructions for submitting your lab work are provided HERE.
• The end-of-lab quiz must be completed via the Canvas LMS before 11:59 PM Central Time on the day after the day on which your laboratory section is scheduled to meet.

Lab Assignment

1. View the video Lab Welcome and Orientation, which is accessible on Dr. Cronin's YouTube channel Cronin-Geoscience-Ed.
2. View the video introducing the material in the first chapter of the AGI/NAGT Lab Manual at https://goo.gl/c3zAzr.
3. View the pronunciation guide for nerdy geoscience terms used in the first chapter of the AGI/NAGT Lab Manual at Pronouncing Terms from the Intro Chapter.
4. Read: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, section Introduction and all of its subsections, Pages 2-3.
5. Read: Earth, chapter 1, section 1.4 Earth as a System
6. Read: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, sections Earth System Science and How Is Each Laboratory Chapter Organized?, Pages 4-6.
7. Read: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, Pages 6-9, Getting to Know Your Planet: Geographic Coordinates (Latitude and Longitude) and Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Coordinates
8. Do: Download the free app Google Earth Pro onto your computer from https://www.google.com/earth/versions/ .
   View the YouTube video FindingPtsWithGeogCoords-GoogleEarthPro at https://youtu.be/PWxcEOQMBxE to familiarize yourself with using Google Earth Pro.
   Play. Look around your planet. Find where you live right now (use your address in the search window) and places you have visited. Have good nerdy fun. But come back to Earth eventually, because we have more work to do.
9. Do: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, Activity 1.1, Pages 17-18. If you get stuck, contact your Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) or Dr. Cronin and they'll try to help you get unstuck. Submit a PDF of your completed activity sheet to the Intro assignment in Canvas — submission instructions HERE.
10. Read: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, Basic Number Management, p. 15-16
11. Do: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, Activity 1.6, Unit Conversions, Scientific Notation, and Rates, p. 25-26, and submit it to the Intro assignment in Canvas — submission instructions HERE.
12. Do: AGI/NAGT Lab Manual, chapter 1, Activity 1.7, Graphing and Interpreting Data, p. 27-28, and submit it to the Intro assignment in Canvas — submission instructions HERE.

Summary of Assigned Lab Activities for This Week: Activities 1.1, 1.6, and 1.7

Required Textbooks And Online Resources

	AGI/NAGT Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology, 12th edition (paper copy) Print Lab Manual ISBN: 9780135836972
	Modified Mastering Geology with eText for Tarbuck et al., Earth 13th edition* This version of Mastering Geology is used within the Canvas LMS. ————— *Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 13th Edition, 2020, by E.J. Tarbuck, F.K. Lutgens, and S. Linneman, with illustrations by D.G. Tasa: New York, Pearson Higher Education, 754 p.

How To Contact the Geo 1405 Lab Coordinator, Dr. Cronin

email: Vince_Cronin@baylor.edu

mobile, for text or voice (only between 8 AM and 8 PM US Central Time, and only if it is an important question/issue related to this course): posted in our course documents on the Canvas learning management system (LMS).

How To Contact Your Graduate Teaching Assistant(s)

Roy Bassoo, Thursday at 12:30 — 2:25 PM and 2:40 — 4:35 PM, email: Roy_Bassoo1@baylor.edu

Sarah Kogler, Tuesday and Wednesday at 4:40 — 6:35 PM, email: Sarah_Kogler1@baylor.edu

Zhao (Amanda) Wang, Tuesday at 12:30 — 2:25 PM and 2:40 — 4:35 PM, email: Zhao_Wang1@baylor.edu

Zequn Wu, Wednesday at 12:20 — 2:15 PM and 2:30 — 4:25 PM, email: Zequn_Wu1@baylor.edu

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