Search Teaching Activities from across SERC-hosted Sites
Subject
- American Studies 1 match
- Anthropology 21 matches
- Biology 370 matches
- Business 20 matches
- Chemistry 123 matches
- Classics 2 matches
- Computer Science 34 matches
- Economics 272 matches
- Education 62 matches
- Engineering 182 matches
- English 47 matches
- Environmental Science 1435 matches
- Fine Arts 13 matches
- Geography 260 matches
- Geoscience 3350 matches
- Health Sciences 78 matches human health topics
- History 28 matches
- Languages 16 matches
- Library Science 1 match
- Mathematics 206 matches
- Media Studies 1 match
- Physics 160 matches
- Political Science 51 matches
- Psychology 18 matches
- Religion 2 matches
- Social Science 2 matches
- Sociology 52 matches
- Women's and Gender Studies 2 matches
Results 1 - 10 of 5023 matches
Reef Builders through Time
Peg Yacobucci, Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
Students will use the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) to explore the history of reef-building animals through time. They will document diversity and extinction patterns through time for seven reef-building marine ...
Learn more about this review process.
Discover Plate Tectonics
Angela Daneshmand, Santiago Canyon College
This is a student-centered activity for a synchronous online course where students access google slides to complete during a video conferencing session (eg. Zoom) in break out rooms. Students will be introduced to ...
Learn more about this review process.
What's in the Water? Lesson 4: Drinking Water & Environmental Justice
Kelsey Bitting, Elon University
In this lesson from the "What's in the Water?" PFAS Contamination Unit", students explore equity in drinking water across the U.S. For homework, students read segments of two recent reports ...
Learn more about this review process.
Getting started with Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope Consortium
Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry method uses overlapping images to create a 3D point cloud of an object or landscape. It can be applied to everything from fault scarps to landslides to topography. This ...
Learn more about this review process.
Unit 1: Exploring the Reservoirs and Pathways and Methods to Measure the Hydrologic Cycle
Jon Harvey (Fort Lewis College) and Becca Walker (Mt. San Antonio College)
How does water move throughout the Earth system? How do scientists measure the amount of water that moves through these pathways? This unit provides an alternative way for students to learn the major components of ...
Learn more about this review process.
Wind and Ocean Ecosystems
Alanna Lecher, Lynn University; April Watson, Lynn University
Wind has a fundamental impact on ocean ecosystems. Wind drives physical processes, including current development and upwelling through Ekman transport. These physical processes, in turn, have cascading impacts on ...
Learn more about this review process.
Mt. St. Helens Topographic Profiles
Eileen Herrstrom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This activity takes place in a laboratory setting and requires ~1-1.5 hours to complete. Students study topographic maps of Mt. St. Helens before and after the eruption of May 18, 1980, and draw two topographic ...
Learn more about this review process.
Example Bisection Method Problem in MATLAB Grader
Roche de Guzman, Hofstra University
Here's an example of a text book problem in Numerical Methods that was converted to a MATLAB Grader assignment to assess students in a more automated and interactive way. Other problems can be modeled and ...
Learn more about this review process.
Unit 2.1: Measuring Topography with Kinematic GPS/GNSS
Ben Crosby, Idaho State University
Kinematic GNSS surveys can provide a rapid means of collecting widely distributed, high-precision topographic data. The advantages of this technique over optical instruments such as a total station are that it only ...
Learn more about this review process.
Learn more about this review process.
Unit 2: Earthquakes, GPS, and Plate Movement
Karen M. Kortz (Community College of Rhode Island)
Jessica J. Smay (San Jose City College)
GPS data can measure bedrock motion in response to deformation of the ground near plate boundaries because of plate tectonics. In this module, students will learn how to read GPS data to interpret how the bedrock ...
Learn more about this review process.
Learn more about this review process.