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
Results 81 - 97 of 97 matches
Oldest Multicellular Animals: Nilpena, South Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, fossils of the earliest multicellular animals, called the Ediacara fauna, appear in the rock record and evolve in three distinct stages. Then suddenly, ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
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
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
James Madison University Ireland Field Course
Steven J. Whitmeyer and L. Scott Eaton James Madison University, Dept. of Geology and Environmental Science Course URL: https://www.jmu.edu/global/abroad/programs/jmu-ireland-geology.shtml Course Type: Field ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity:Research experiences for students, Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity
Geology of the central and southern Adirondack Mountains, New York: research field camp
Dr. David W. Valentino, Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Oswego Dr. Jeffrey R. Chiarenzelli, Department of Geology, St. Lawrence University Intended Audience: This field program is ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Field Activity:Field camp
Geology of National Parks: a survey of introductory geology taught as a 4-week field trip
Linda L. Davis Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Intended Audience: This trip is designed as a general studies course for those without any background in science. Yet, it welcomes science majors. Freshmen to ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Field laboratories, Field trip
The geomorphology of home
Michael Loso, Alaska Pacific University
In this lab, students read and interpret 1) peer-reviewed literature, 2) LIDAR-derived hillshade maps, and 3) the landscape itself to better understand the geomorphology of their local urban/suburban environment ...
Resource Type: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Activities
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On the Trail of the Yellowstone Hot Spot - Snake River Plain, Craters of the Moon, and Yellowstone
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 Activity:Field camp, Field trip , Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip
Field and Laboratory Studies of Coastal Processes
Dr. William Slattery Wright State University Intended Audience: In-service and Pre-service K12 teachers Location: Coastal New Jersey Show Daily Intinerary Hide Show Suggestions for Modification Hide ...
Resource Type: Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip , Activities:Field Activity
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
GeoJourney
Dr. Joe Elkins and Nikki Elkins Bowling Green State University Intended Audience: Undergraduate students in any major Itinerary: There is a sample trip itinerary on the program website. Location: Starting and ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity:Research experiences for students, Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity
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
West Texas: Guadalupe Mountains, Carlsbad Caverns, Big Bend
Neil Haywood, Kevin Hefferean University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point Geology/Geography 393: Field Trip - Southwestern USA Intended Audience: Geology and Geography undergraduate students Location: Guadalupe ...
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Field trip
Exploring the Grand Caynon (unguided VFT)
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, Field Activity
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Structural Geology of East Gippsland, southeastern Australia
Sandra McLaren, The University of Melbourne
This activity is a virtual field experience set in Palaeozoic rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt in Southeastern Australia. Exercises include identifying and interpreting rocks showing evidence for two phases of ...
Resource Type: Activities:Field Activity
Earliest Record of Life, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Dresser Formation is part of the mostly volcanic Warrawoona Group in the North Pole Dome area of the East Pilbara located in the State of Western Australia. At 3.49 billion years old, this formation contains ...
Resource Type: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Capstone Field Experience: Not a Capstone
Virtual Field Trip (VFT) to the USGS Earthquake Hazard Program - Connection between Plate Boundaries and Threats to Life
Carlos Nunez, Nova
Resource Type: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Activities
