Geology of Yosemite Valley part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nicolas Barth, University of California-Riverside
This is a four-part module designed to be flexible in duration and student grade-level. (1) Geology of Yosemite Valley Virtual Field Trip. A 43-stop web-based Google Earth tour with embedded views, hyperlinked ...

Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at Lough Fee part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise 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 orientation ...

Google Earth Exercises for Structural Geology part of Visualization:Examples
Jonathan Dyess, University of Minnesota-Duluth
Students use imagery taken from Google Earth to create photo-geologic maps of areas with various structural styles. Concepts include basic geologic mapping principles, remote data set interpretation, ...

Semi-Brittle Deformation Experiments part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Activities
Alan Chapman, Macalester College
This lab uses analog modeling to investigate how earth materials deform within the brittle-ductile transition zone.

Thin-Skinned Models for Undergraduate Teaching Labs – "Flour Structures part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Dan Davis, SUNY at Stony Brook
The lab described here a simple, inexpensive way for an undergraduate class to create model thin-skinned wedges A simple model using flour and marker chalk, pushed across the base of a box using a piece of wood, ...

Geologic Mapping Exercise part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Andrew Smith, Warrick County Soil and Water Conservation District/Crane Environmental Services llc
This exercise is designed to simulate some of the mapping aspects of a basic geological investigation. This mock geological investigation is a good wrap-up exercise because it incorporates a variety of geological ...

Mapping commingled magmas, Eastern Head of Isle Au Haut, Maine part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
Dykstra Eusden, Bates College
This is a week-long bedrock mapping project on Isle Au Haut, in Penobscot Bay, Maine, with three to four field days followed by 1-2 lab days. The bedrock is Silurian gabbro and granite that commingled in a magma ...

Structural Geometry from Outcrop Patterns part of Visualization:Examples
Charles Onasch, Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
Using Google Earth, students will investigate the relationship between the geometry of rock bodies and their outcrop patterns.

Field Trip Comics part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Activities
Andy Bobyarchick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Structural geology field trips integrate learning, collaboration, and exploration. Creating a comic (or graphic novel) from a field trip promotes students' rendering their own popular culture view of the ...

The Floating Lithosphere - Cross Section of North America part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Len Vacher, University of South Florida
In this module, students calculate the pressure at the depth of compensation along a cross section of North America.