Teaching Activities
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- Geology 1 match
Geoscience
14 matches General/OtherResource Type
Learning Outcomes
- Design a data strategy 1 match Design a field strategy to collect or select data in order to answer a geologic question.
- Collect data 1 match Collect accurate and sufficient data on field relationships and record these using disciplinary conventions (field notes, map symbols, etc.).
- Develop an argument 1 match Develop an argument that is consistent with available evidence and uncertainty.
- Communicate clearly 1 match 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 1 match Work effectively independently and collaboratively (e.g., commitment, reliability, leadership, open for advice, channels of communication, supportive, inclusive).
Capstone Field Experience
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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
Banded Iron Formations, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The banded iron formations (BIFs) of Karijini Gorge in Western Australia are distinctive units of sedimentary rock that are almost always of Precambrian age. This unique formation is the largest iron deposit on ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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
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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Virtual fieldtrip on the Quaternary evolution of Rhodes Isl. (Greece).
Niki Evelpidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This virtual fieldtrip takes place on Rhodes Isl., Dodecanese, Greece. Rhodes is the largest island among the Dodecanese Archipelago in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Along with Kassos, Karpathos and Crete islands, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Gorge to Shore - Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast to Northern California
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip
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Battle of Lava and Life: Crater Lake National Park and Newberry Volcanic National Monument
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 (509) 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Field trip , Field camp
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Sage to Sea - Columbia Plateau, across the North Cascades and to Whidbey Island WA
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip , Course Information
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Video Games as Physical Geology Labs
Ronald Dorn, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This resource includes a series of laboratory activities associated with geovisualizations that look and play like a video game. The student controls the video game camera and the avatar to interact with DEM ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Layers in Time, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Ediacaran Period, named after the Ediacara Hills of South Australia, is the last geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era immediately preceding the Paleozoic Era. The rocks at this very special site define ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Virtual fieldtrip on the geoarchaeology of south Corinth Gulf
Niki Evelpidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This virtual fieldtrip takes place on south Corinth Gulf. The Gulf of Corinth is a major tectonic and geomorphological feature in central Greece, separating the Peloponnese in the south from the mainland in the ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Robinson Park Orienteering in Minecraft
Erika Rader, University of Idaho
Students will learn how to relate topographic map features to hills, valleys, and plateaus by using the pace and compass method of navigation in the 3D virtual world of Minecraft.
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Communicate clearly , Design a data strategy , Work independently and collaboratively
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Natural History of the Olympic Peninsula
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity:Field trip , Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Course Information
Living with Volcanoes - Mt. Rainier and Mt. Saint Helens, WA
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn Department of Biology, ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Field trip , Activities:Virtual Field Trip