Geosciences Graduate Seminar part of Teach the Earth:Courses
The goal of the seminar is to help students get started in graduate school and help them find resources and develop critical skills for success in academia. This seminar explores the skills, resources and habits ...

Introduction to Mineralogy part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This is a hybrid-traditional course, involving face to face laboratory sessions, asynchronous online work, and synchronous online instruction/activities.

Principles and Applications of Geoscience Education part of Teach the Earth:Courses
Professional geoscientists often need to communicate complex science ideas to non-experts such as stakeholders, students, and policymakers. Foundational knowledge of learning theories and practical strategies for ...

Introduction to Remote Sensing part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This course introduces students to the principles of remote sensing, characteristics of remote sensors, and remote sensing applications. Areas emphasized include manipulating data in Google Earth Engine, ...

Environmental Science Professional Development Course part of E-STEM:Professional Development
This professional development course features students engaging with a variety of local scientists, researchers and other professionals in environmental disciplines. Students learned about environmental science ...

Seismology Skill Building Workshop for Undergraduates part of Teach the Earth:Courses
The COVID-19 pandemic led to the suspension of many summer research opportunities for STEM students. In response, the IRIS Education and Outreach program, in collaboration with Miami University, offered a free ...

Petrology and Plate Tectonics part of Goals Database
This course is organized around the igneous and metamorphic processes that govern the rock cycle, all within the context of plate tectonics. Rather than addressing igneous and metamorphic rocks and processes as ...

QUANTITATIVE SKILLS IN GEOSCIENCES part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This course seeks to develop students' discipline-specific quantitative skills. Topics related to science literacy and data analysis are framed in geologic context. Students use mathematical concepts, along ...

Geology, Research, and Environment of Latin America part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This course aims to introduce all undergraduate students to the geology, resources, and environment of Latin America. It is designed for a normal 3 hour, semester-long slot and consists of 23 ~50 minute long videos ...

Introductory Earth System Science Lab part of Teach the Earth:Courses
Earth Systems Science lab is designed to accompany Earth Systems Science lecture (ERTH 101) to provide hands-on opportunities for students to practice geoscientific inquiry. Students will examine Earth materials ...

Introductory Graduate Seminar part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This is a course for first-semester graduate students, with the following aims: (1) introduce the varied research being done by different groups in the department; (2) help new grad students develop and strengthen ...

Structural Geology with Field Geology lab part of Teach the Earth:Courses
In this majors-level course students learn how to 1) collect data for structural and tectonic analyses, 2) synthesize and analyze these data to generate and test hypotheses, and 3) apply these structural and ...

Introduction to the Geosciences part of Goals Database
This course focuses on physical geology. The course focuses on 5 Big Ideas including Plate Tectonics, The Rock Cycle, Geologic Time, Geoscience Research and Scientific Thinking. There are also four skills that are ...

Geological Perspective part of Rates and Time:Courses
General education Earth science class for non-science majors. Covers topics from formation of the universe to current issues in global change. Class is offered in a lecture setting, but is highly interactive, with ...

Course profile: Geodynamics I & II part of Strong Geoscience Departments:Degree Programs:Courses
A course profile page for the University of Minnesota's intermediate-level Geodynamics I & II sequence, detailing a quantitative curriculum focused on fluid mechanics and Earth processes, designed for geoscience majors, with information on course context, learning goals, assessment methods, and downloadable syllabi. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Hannah Scherer: Teaching A Growing Concern in Ecological Agriculture at Virginia Tech part of A Growing Concern
Ecological Agriculture presents an overview of historic and modern agricultural practices. Surveys the principles of ecology in the context of managed ecosystems, civic agriculture, and food systems. Explores ecologically based practices and their use in holistic and integrated agricultural systems.

Geologic Catastrophes part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching about Risk and Resilience:Courses
This is an introductory-level lecture and activity based course focused on geologic hazards in the Pacific Northwest: earthquakes, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, and landslides. Students are required to access the ...

Extreme Weather part of Online Teaching:Online Courses
This course provides an introduction to the physics of extreme weather events. We examine solar eruptions, ice ages, climate change, monsoons, El Niño, hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, thunderstorms, ...

Global Change - Physical Processes part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell:Example Courses
ENVIRON/NRE/BIOLOGY/GEOG 110 and AOSS/GEOSCI/ENSCEN 171 This is the first semester of an interdisciplinary three semester introductory course sequence that investigates the causes and potential impacts of global ...

Biological Discovery: Observation and Experimentation part of Goals Database
This is a course for biology or general science majors that focuses on the primary and secondary scientific literature as a means to gain a deep understanding of the process of science and how we know what we know ...