Activities for Introductory Geoscience

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What Should We Do About Global Warming? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This module contains an 8-lesson curriculum to study greenhouse gases and global warming using data and visualizations. The students will summarize the issue in a mock debate or a presentation. -

Earth System Topics: Atmosphere, Human Dimensions:Policy, Climate
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project

Weather Map Interpretation part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Gallery Walks:Examples
Students participate in a Gallery Walk to combine weather variables and create weather forecasts based on four different weather maps.

Earth System Topics: Atmosphere:Weather, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Maps, Activities:Classroom Activity:Gallery Walk, Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations

Mock Environmental Summit part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
At the end of a six-week class or unit on global warming, students role-play representatives from various countries and organizations at an international summit on global warming. -

Earth System Topics: Human Dimensions:Policy, Energy, Climate, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project

Floodplains part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
In this lab, students measure a topographic and geologic cross-section across a floodplain by simple surveying and auguring techniques. -

Earth System Topics: Solid Earth, Biosphere:Ecology, Hydrology:Surface Water, Hydrology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity

Runaway Greenhouse Effect Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
This site has a collection of role-playing exercises that provide the students with equations and data to use in collaborative problem-solving. -

Earth System Topics: Solar System and Astronomy, Earth's Cycles:Carbon Cycle, Climate, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity

Global Temperatures part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Students analyze the global temperature record from 1867 to the present. Long-term trends and shorter-term fluctuations are both evaluated. -

Earth System Topics: Atmosphere:Weather, Climate, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity

Modern CO2 part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Students compare carbon dioxide (CO2) data from Mauna Loa Observatory, Barrow (Alaska), and the South Pole over the paast 40 years to help them better understand what controls atmospheric CO2. -

Earth System Topics: Climate, Earth's Cycles:Carbon Cycle, Biosphere, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity

Earth's Radiation Budget part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
In this activity students explore the Earth's radiation budget using Earth radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) data archived at the IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library (more info) . -

Earth System Topics: Earth's Cycles, Climate, Biosphere:Ecology, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity

Vostok Ice Core: Excel (Mac or PC) part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples
Students use Excel to graph and analyze Vostok ice core data (160,000 years of Ice core data from Vostok Station). Data includes ice age, ice depth, carbon dioxide, methane, dust, and deuterium ...

Earth System Topics: Solid Earth:Earth Materials, Climate, Atmosphere
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Hydrosphere: Detailed Example part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Socratic Questioning:Examples
Detailed, annotated example of Socratic questioning for topics of hydrologic cycle, streamflow hydrographs, and impacts of land-use change on streamflow. -

Earth System Topics: Hydrology:Ground Water, Hydrology, :Surface Water
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Socratic Questioning

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