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.

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.

Community Monitoring part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity page outlines a community-based environmental monitoring project for urban geology education, where students design and conduct experiments—such as testing the urban heat island effect—using scientific equipment, fostering civic engagement, multidisciplinary research skills, and real-time data sharing for K–12 and public use. 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.

History of Chromite in Maryland part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea page details a geoscience exercise where students investigate the history of chromite mining in Maryland, focusing on serpentinite formation, contaminant fate tracking, and site history analysis within environmental geology and economic geology contexts for upper-level undergraduate 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.

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.

Sourcing architectural bricks by chemical analysis as an analog for sourcing magmas part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea explores using geochemical analysis of New York City's historical yellow bricks as an engaging analog for teaching magma sourcing, allowing students to apply discrimination diagrams to solve archaeological material origins and draw parallels to igneous petrology. 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.

Paper or Plastic? Recognizing Environmental Tradeoffs part of Activity Ideas
This is a teaching activity idea page from the On the Cutting Edge collection that outlines a classroom exercise where students analyze environmental tradeoffs in common decisions (e.g., paper vs. plastic, incandescent vs. fluorescent bulbs), emphasizing that environmental solutions involve value-based judgments beyond scientific analysis, aimed at introductory to upper-level geoscience 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.

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.

Geologic Materials and Processes and How They Impact Human Health part of Activity Ideas
This incomplete teaching activity idea explores medical geology by examining how geologic materials and processes—such as water quality, mercury exposure, and radon emissions—affect human health, with goals centered on understanding environmental element cycles and their health impacts in upper-level geoscience 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.