Teaching Activity Ideas


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What's Cooking in Geology? Food Analogies and Demonstrations to Connect Geology with Everyday Experiences part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity description presents food-based analogies and demonstrations for geology education, covering structural geology, magma dynamics, volcanic eruptions, oil spills, plate tectonics, and glacial motion through everyday kitchen items to enhance student understanding. 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.

Musical World Tour part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity page presents a geography-focused classroom exercise where students develop listening and mapping skills by identifying place names mentioned in diverse music clips and plotting them on a map, designed for introductory urban geology or physical geography courses. 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.

Myths About Earthquakes part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity description explores earthquake myths across cultures, aiming to illustrate how early explanations of natural phenomena evolved before modern science, and is part of the "Teach the Earth" geoscience education collection. 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.

Historical Urban Land Use part of Activity Ideas
This webpage is a teaching activity idea focused on historical urban land use, where students use GIS to rectify historic maps and analyze spatial patterns of urban contamination in relation to past land-use practices, fostering critical thinking and technical skills in environmental science and geospatial analysis. 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.

Using travel photos to help introduce ideas and link to cultural stories part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea page demonstrates how educators can use personal travel photos to introduce geoscience concepts, connect with cultural stories, and humanize instructors, with an example linking cherry blossom imagery in Japan to climate change discussions in an introductory course. 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.

The role of geology in the London cholera outbreak of 1854 part of Activity Ideas
This is a teaching activity idea page that explores the intersection of geology, urban hydrology, and public health through the historical case of the 1854 London cholera outbreak, using Steven Johnson's "The Ghost Map" to teach epidemiology, medical geology, and contaminant hydrology to upper-level students, with learning goals centered on analyzing geology's role in urban health crises and assessing student understanding through research presentations. 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.

Correlating building stone type with building age to introduce the concept of dating rocks using index fossils part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea page, part of the "Urban Geology: Activity Ideas" module, details a field-based exercise where students correlate building stone types and architectural styles with construction age in urban environments to draw analogies with geologic dating methods, particularly the use of index fossils for relative dating, targeting introductory geoscience students. 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.

Medicines and personal care products to engage students' learning part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea page from the On the Cutting Edge collection presents a geoscience education approach using pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) to engage urban students, covering pollution control, waste management, environmental impacts, and policy advocacy within introductory or upper-level courses. 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.

Landslide Hazards part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity description introduces undergraduate students to U.S. landslide hazard mapping through interactive classroom exploration of geospatial data on precipitation, topography, faults, and river systems, aimed at fostering connections between environmental factors and mass wasting risks within an urban geology education context. 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.

Geology and Fine Arts part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea page from the SERC Pedagogic Collection explores interdisciplinary methods for integrating geology and fine arts, specifically through student artistic interpretation of urban wetlands to develop observational and communication skills in environmental science education. 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.