Teaching Activities
These teaching activities have been contributed to the collection by faculty members across the country. You can contribute an activity of your own to the collection using the Teach the Earth contribute form as well.
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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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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Virtual Landscapes Geological Mapping
Jacqueline Houghton, University of Leeds
A virtual landscape is a virtual reality environment designed to develop geologic mapping and field skills. They include natural landscapes where the geology can be mapped, and interactive 3D block models of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
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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
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
Post-processing GPS/GNSS Base Station Position
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
This assignment uses static GNSS methods to establish a base station used to establish a control point for a kinematic survey (establishing ground control points used in Structure from Motion for Analysis of River ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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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
Geoscience Field Issues Using High-Resolution Topography to Understand Earth Surface Processes
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
The objective of the course is to train students in manual and remote sensing methods of topographic data collection, including 1) GPS/GNSS surveys, 2) structure from motion (SfM), and 3) ground-based (terrestrial ...
Resource Type: Course Information
SIGkit (Software for Introductory Geophysics toolkit) for modelling and visualization of data
Charly Bank, University of Toronto
Predicting what geophysical data may look like and making basic inferences from data are critical learning outcomes of introductory geophysics courses whether they happen in a classroom or in a field setting. This ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Problem Set
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Collect data, Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
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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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Exploring the Grand Canyon: Layers and Superposition
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
OpenTopography Data Sources and Topographic Differencing
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
In spring 2020, the world was hit by a pandemic that spread globally by March, causing universities and most of the world to move to remote means. Summer field camps, long hailed as a rite of passage in the ...
Resource Type: Activities:Project, Lab Activity
Learning Outcomes: Develop an argument, Demonstrate professional behaviors , Synthesize geologic data , Communicate clearly , Interpret systems and processes , Collect data
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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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Exploring the Grand Canyon: Mystery of Blacktail Canyon
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Marble Bar, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Marble Bar Chert of Western Australia, is one of the earliest sedimentary deposits on Earth. The Marble Bar Chert, along with the presence of pillow basalts, could be an important part of Earth's early ...
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)
Go with the Flow: A Virtual Field Experience on Groundwater Flow
Megan Brown, Northern Illinois University
This virtual field module will introduce students to water level data collection, a key skill in hydrology, hydrogeology, and environmental field work. Students will use site data to analyze and interpret ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Learning Outcomes: Synthesize geologic data , Communicate clearly , Collect data, Design a data strategy
Capstone Field Experience: Capstone (virtual)
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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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