Teaching Activities
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Learning Outcomes
- Design a data strategy 23 matches Design a field strategy to collect or select data in order to answer a geologic question.
- Collect data 30 matches Collect accurate and sufficient data on field relationships and record these using disciplinary conventions (field notes, map symbols, etc.).
- Synthesize geologic data 34 matches Synthesize geologic data and integrate with core concepts and skills into a cohesive spatial and temporal scientific interpretation.
- Interpret systems and processes 26 matches Interpret earth systems and past/current/future processes using multiple lines of spatially distributed evidence.
- Develop an argument 32 matches Develop an argument that is consistent with available evidence and uncertainty.
- Communicate clearly 33 matches Communicate clearly using written, verbal, and/or visual media (e.g., maps, cross-sections, reports) with discipline-specific terminology appropriate to your audience.
- Work independently and collaboratively 25 matches Work effectively independently and collaboratively (e.g., commitment, reliability, leadership, open for advice, channels of communication, supportive, inclusive).
- Reflect on personal strengths/challenges 8 matches Reflect on personal strengths and challenges (e.g. in study design, safety, time management, independent and collaborative work).
- Demonstrate professional behaviors 23 matches Demonstrate behaviors expected of professional geoscientists (e.g., time management, work preparation, collegiality, health and safety, ethics).
Capstone Field Experience
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Fold Analysis Challenge
Declan De Paor, Old Dominion University; Mladen Dorevic, Old Dominion University; Paul Karabinos, Williams College; Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College; Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Fold Analysis Challenge (FAC) uses Google Earth and a customized Google Earth interface to help students visualize the orientations of eroded dipping sedimentary layers and to visualize the geometries of folds ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Synthesize geologic data , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Virtual Field Trip to the Blue Ridge Province, Central Virginia
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at Ben Levy
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at Ben Levy, western Ireland is designed to simulate a more advanced field mapping exercise. Students load a KML file in Google Earth that includes real outcrop data in the ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Sun Canyon Virtual Field Trip in Google Earth
Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University-Bozeman
Sun Canyon is a classic traverse through an imbricate fault zone along the Rocky Mountain front in northern Montana. It provides world-class exposures of fold-thrust belt structures in the foothills of the ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Communicate clearly , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data
Virtual Field Trip to Grand Ledge, Michigan: Interpreting Sedimentary Environments
Madeline Marshall, Albion College
This remote field experience undertakes all stages of a sedimentation and stratigraphy field project. Students use 3-D models of outcrops and hand samples, and thin sections to analyze rock formations. They develop ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Ground Control Points for Structure from Motion
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
This assignment uses real-time kinematic GNSS methods to establish ground control points used in the Day 3 Part 2: Analysis of River Characteristics structure from motion (SfM) activity. Day 3 Part 1 - This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Synthesize geologic data , Collect data, Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Introduction to Planetary Mapping
Alexandra Davatzes, Temple University
This is an introduction to photogeologic/geomorphologic mapping of a planetary surface. The goal of this project is to help students learn the components of a geologic map and try to use all of their undergraduate ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Introduction to JMARS
Alexandra Davatzes, Temple University
This is an introduction to using JMARS. It is a bit of a "cookbook" for getting students comfortable with the different things you can do in JMARS, such as adding different visual datasets with ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Getting to know your smartphone magnetometer
Chris Rowan, Kent State University-Main Campus
An introduction to using a smartphone to acquire measurements of the local magnetic field strength and direction. The students locate the location of the sensor in the smartphone, characterise its measurement axes, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
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Knossos Ancient Lake Environment, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The 2.73 Ga Knossos Locality is a succession of clastic and carbonate rocks outcropping along the southern margin of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. It hosts abundant, diverse and exceptionally ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at McCauley, WV
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at McCauley, WV is designed to simulate an introductory field mapping exercise. Students load a KML file in Google Earth that includes real outcrop data in the form of dots and ...
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Design a data strategy , Collect data, Synthesize geologic data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
Living Microorganisms, Shark Bay, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
3,000 years ago microbes started building up stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia. These structures are the earliest signs of life on Earth, and are considered the longest continuing biological lineage. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Model Uncertainty Module
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is a (~30 slide) powerpoint with embedded video/audio that specifically addresses model uncertainty. It provides an "evidence meter" that allows you to evaluate a model. Explicit discussion of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
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Virtual Fieldtrip to Baraboo, WI, with StraboSpot
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This activity is a virtual field trip to the Baraboo area of southern Wisconsin. The StraboSpot digital data system is used to show the data, including the spot functionality to view outcrops at multiple spatial ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Collect data, Develop an argument
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Point Cloud and Raster Change Detection
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
In this assignment, students difference point cloud and raster data sets to compare structure from motion (SfM) and terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) results. They interpret error in these methods used for ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Project, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Communicate clearly , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Work independently and collaboratively , Interpret systems and processes , Synthesize geologic data
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Virtual field trip to Giant's Causeway, Ireland
Jill Schneiderman, Vassar College
This online assignment takes the students on a virtual field trip to Giant's Causeway in northern Ireland. It begins with a brief video of the geological site, includes some questions relevant to the history ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Classroom Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Develop an argument
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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Jurassic Quad Online Geologic Mapping Project
Andrew Laskowski, Montana State University-Bozeman
This is an online geologic mapping activity designed to mimic the experience of conducting a geologic mapping project over several days in a field area. Students download a physical topographic basemap and then ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Learning Outcomes: Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Communicate clearly , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data , Interpret systems and processes
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Geologic Mapping on Mars
J. Brian Balta, Texas A & M University
This activity consists of several mapping components exploring the JMARS software and completing detailed geologic maps and cross sections on Mars.
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Field Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Work independently and collaboratively , Demonstrate professional behaviors , Develop an argument, Synthesize geologic data , Design a data strategy , Collect data
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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Data Uncertainty Module
Basil Tikoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This is a (~35 slide) powerpoint with embedded video/audio that specifically addresses data uncertainty. It provides a "meter" that allows you to evaluate uncertainty. It provides geology field-based ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
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A virtual fieldtrip on the coastal geomorphology of Naxos Isl.
Niki Evelpidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This virtual fieldtrip takes place on Naxos Isl., Cyclades, Greece. The coastal zone of Naxos is diverse, mainly due to the lithological variety and tectonics that have affected the wider region. The north, east ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip