Papers about Teaching

Brady, J.B. (1992) Does ice dissolve or does halite melt? -- A low-temperature liquidus experiment for petrology classes: Journal of Geological Education, 40, 116-118.

Brady, J.B. (1995) Confessions of a mineralogy professor: Geotimes,  40:9, 4.

Brady, J.B., and Boardman, S.J. (1995) Optical diffraction experiments using lasers -- An effective strategy for introducing mineralogy students to x-ray diffraction: Journal of Geological Education, 43, 471-476.

Brady, J.B., Newton, R.M., and Boardman, S.J. (1995) New uses for powder x-ray diffraction experiments in the undergraduate curriculum:  Journal of Geological Education, 43, 466-470.

Brady, J.B. (1997) Teaching mineralogy to geology students: Mineralogical Association of Canada Newsletter, 56, 3-7.

Brady, J.B. (1997) Making solid solutions with alkali halides: in Brady, J.B., Mogk, D.W., and Perkins, D., editors, Teaching Mineralogy, Mineralogical Society of America, Washington, DC, 85-89.

Brady, J. B. (2003) Phase diagrams from kitchen chemistry. 3 January 2008 <http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/petrology/teaching_examples/25370.html>.

Brady, J.B., and Cheney, J.T. (2004) The Cape Ann Plutonic Suite: A field trip for petrology classes.  In Hanson, L.S., ed., Guidebook, 96th Annual Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Salem, Massachusetts, B1-B25.

Brady, J.B. (2009) Magma in a beaker: Analog experiments with water and various salts or sugar for teaching igneous petrology.  The Canadian Mineralogist, 47, 457-471. (Figures in postscript.)

Brady, J.B. (2009) Siphons, Water Clocks, Cooling Coffee, and Leaking Capacitors: Classroom Activities to Help Students Understand Radiometric Dating and Other Exponential Processes. Journal of Geoscience Education, 57, 196-205.