Geology of National Parks Modules for the Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum Library

Introduction THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (NPS) NATURALRESOURCECHALLENGE PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY to promote the teaching of quantitative literacy (QL) in the undergraduate curriculum. At the same time, it provides an opportunity to illustrate for students that geology in the parks comprises not only captivating interpretive stories behind the parks’ informative rocks and magnificent scenery, but also a body of knowledge useful to parkland stewardship. With those thoughts in mind, our Geology of National Parks Collection for the online Spreadsheets Across the Curricu lum (SSAC) Library aims to add environmental geology to the traditional Geology of National Parks course and infuse it with student exercises to do foundational math in context. We make use of NPS inventory and monitoring data where we can, and we are kept on course by collaborators and advisors from the NPS network of research learning centers.