Education is provided through rock identification games in the Parangtopo Laboratory mini museum
Depok (MidLand) – The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the University of Indonesia (FMIPA UI) provides training to students of SMA Negeri 1 Depok City, West Java, on the diversity of the earth’s geology at the Nature Laboratory mini-museum by Parangtopo, FMIPA User Interface.
Teaching activities in the context of community service (community service) were provided by some teachers of the Geology Studies Program.
FMIPA UI Community Service Group Chairman Reza Syahputra in Depok on Wednesday said this education is important because all aspects of human life depend on geological phenomena, such as energy, natural resources and even disasters.
With this training, he continued, students will be able to directly learn about different types of rocks that are common and often present in nature, as well as the dynamics of the earth’s movements.
He said the students not only learned from books, but also directly saw and touched various rocks and minerals preserved in the Parangtopo FMIPA UI Nature Laboratory mini museum.
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“Education is provided through rock identification games in the Parangtopo Laboratory mini museum,” he said.
He hopes this activity will educate students to understand the various types of rocks based on variations in their formation, as well as connect earth science theory with the reality around them.
According to Reza, all natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, occur due to the movement of tectonic plates in the continental and oceanic crust. The movement of these plates has a significant impact on the diversity of minerals and rocks on the Earth’s surface. As a result, the earth has different geological zones with unique rock compositions.
“To understand how the earth works, we can do so by looking at the products of geological processes, one of which is rocks and minerals,” he said.
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Participants were then given the opportunity to view various collections and physically identify minerals and rocks. They looked directly under the microscope at the rock material that had been cut.
Students are also invited to learn about the most common rocks, such as basalt, gabbro, granite and pumice, but also those that have an economic value, such as coal and valuable minerals, such as chalcedony, quartz and jasper . Besides that, different types of minerals were also introduced, such as amethyst, pyrite, azurite, and malachite.
Reza hopes that this activity will not only provide academic knowledge, but encourage younger generations to be more interested and motivated to understand the complexity of the earth’s geological diversity.
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Reporter: Feru Lantara
Publisher: Risbiani Fardaniah
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