Understanding Doppler radar radial velocity fields part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
This activity is designed to help students learn how to interpret Doppler radial velocity radar images with meteorological applications, as well as giving students a chance to practice their spatial skills.

Magnetic Reversals at Divergent Plate Boundaries part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and given the prompt: ...

The First Field Trip: An introduction to sedimentation and stratigraphy part of Library:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
An example set of tasks and questions for the first field trip of a 300-level Sedimentology and Stratigraphy course.

A Quantitative Visualization of Mantle Melting part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
Here is an exercise to acquaint students with pressure-temperature diagrams related to Earth's interior, teach why the mantle melts in the context of pressure and temperature, demonstrate the role water has on melting, and review the three ways to melt the mantle.

GeoClick: Sedimentary Environments part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
Students apply their understanding of sedimentary rocks and sediment characteristics to identify where rocks may be forming using a simplified cross-section of a landscape from mountain to sea.

Subduction Zone part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and instructed to ...

GeoClick: reading the Michel Levy Color chart part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples

Alpine Glaciers part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told to "If more ...

Correlation part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and told, "Fossils ...

Where is that feature on a map? part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
To help ensure students understand where the features mentioned in class are located, students are shown a map or aerial image of a location that will be discussed and asked to click on the location. The results are displayed with points or as a heat map at the front of the class and then discussed.

Drawing Contour Lines part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples

Communicate the Quake: An interactive earthquake role-play used to teach communication skills part of Library:Role Playing:Examples
Communicate the Quake is an interactive role-play used to teach upper-level undergraduate students about earthquake hazards, emergency management, and risk communication through the management of an authentic earthquake event.

Paper Fans and Paper Planes: A classroom PPF example part of Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This in-class exercise has students create a classroom PPF which is simple to implement in about 15-20 minutes but has lasting impacts and applications.

An Experiential Pedagogy for Sustainability Ethics: The Externalities Game part of Library:Games:Examples
The Externalities Game is a non-cooperative game that teaches students about the concept of environmental externalities and allows them to directly experience the moral dimensions of collective action problems. It has been particularly effective for teaching students about the moral aspects of the climate change. Grades are used to create the tension between earning individual grade points at the expense of group benefit. This is part of a research project funded by the National Science Foundation.

Demonstrating discount rates with a reverse auction of presentation dates part of Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
In this reverse auction of assignment delivery dates, student groups submit their "offers" for taking different dates. The groups complete an exercise using their offers to calculate a simple discount rate for future effort, which can be tied to a discussion of the economics of climate change.

Core Microscopy Skills: Instructional Scaffolding for the Gram Stain part of Library:Indoor Labs:Examples
Effective use of a microscope and Gram staining are important skills in biology and clinical medicine. This scaffolded activity teaches students these skills in steps that build on each other.

Cartel game part of Library:Classroom Experiments:Examples
This is a game that puts students in a groups to interact as if they were firms in a cartel. This game will illustrate how oligopoly's are inherently unstable.

Procedure for measuring flow rate (discharge) in a channel, river, creek or stream part of Library:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
Explains a detailed procedure for measuring flow rate (discharge) in a small (wadable) channel, river, creek or stream using a propeller-type current meter as wells as surface floats. It includes instructions for ...

Faults part of Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown this diagram and prompted to "If ...

Water part of Library:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell
Content page from the "Earth System Science in a Nutshell" module on SERC's Starting Point website, discussing the critical role of water in Earth's system, covering its physical states, oceanic and atmospheric interactions, polar ice dynamics, and its essential function in supporting life, with embedded links to external resources on water-related topics. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.