Let's Look Inside the Earth part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Students will analyze USGS seismology data in the classroom using spreadsheets and scatter plots to look for patterns and structure in the Earth's crust. Before analyzing data, students will learn about the ...

Earth Artistically Balanced part of CLEAN Collection

Build Your Own Earth part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Build Your Own Earth is a freely available web site to explore the factors that affect Earth's climate. Climate model simulations reveal the annual distributions of 50 different quantities. An accompanying ...

Connections in the Earth System part of CLEAN Collection

Density of Earth Materials part of Oceanography:Activities
This activity modifies a typical density laboratory exercise to fit within a lecture session. Students are asked to compare the densities of six different rocks/minerals collected from six different environments. ...

Determining Shallow Earth Structure part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
This activity is intended to extend students' learning of fundamental physics concepts (e.g. reflection, refraction and transmission of energy) through a real-world application.

Orders of Magnitude in the Earth sciences part of Math You Need - Majors:Orders of Magnitude
This module is undergoing classroom implementation with the Math Your Earth Science Majors Need project. The module is available for public use, but it will likely be revised after classroom testing. An ...

Earth System Science Project part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
An Earth System Project shows the interaction between the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and Biosphere. The project is fully described with ready-to-copy materials, including student handouts in table form and ...

Earth Structure: Modeling and Three-Dimensional Thinking part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This is a series of three lessons that focus on two and three dimensional thinking, modeling, and earth structure. The main goal of the lessons is to develop a sense of two- and three-dimensional models of ...

Interpretations: Reading the Book of Earth part of CLEAN Collection

Lab 2: Earth's Frozen Oceans part of EarthLabs for Educators:Climate and the Cryosphere
The lab activity described here was developed by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives In Part A, students will learn about how sea ice forms and influences ocean currents ...

Histograms - Practice Problems Solving Earth science problems with data binning part of Math You Need - Majors:Histograms
This module is available for public use, but it is undergoing revision after classroom implementation with the Math Your Earth Science Majors Need project. Creating histograms by hand Problem 1: In fluvial ...

Why is the Earth Still Hot Inside? part of Earth and Space Science:Summer 2010:Activities
Inquiry lab in which students study the rate of heat transfer as a function of size. Larger objects lose heat more slowly than smaller objects because their surface area relative to their volume is smaller. Relevant to the study of planetary formation, comparative planetology, basic thermodynamics, scientific inquiry, error checking, and the consequences of scaling.

Earth System Science Unit Overview part of EarthLabs for Educators:Earth System Science
Student Pages » The lab activities in this module were adapted by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. The Workshop Leader Resources were developed by Nick Haddad of TERC, Project Director of the ...

Wind Energy: Exploring Wind Farms with Google Earth part of CLEAN Collection

A Year in the Life of the Earth System part of EarthLabs for Educators:Earth System Science
The lab activity described here was adapted by Erin Bardar and Sarah Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Students have been examining Earth as a system of interacting parts, ...

Using NASA Earth-Observing Satellites to Help Improve Agriculture and Water Usage part of CLEAN Collection

Solving Math Word Problems - Practice Problems Solving Earth science word problems with GFSE part of Math You Need - Majors:Solving Math Word Problems
This module is available for public use, but it is undergoing revision after classroom implementation with the Math Your Earth Science Majors Need project. Hydrology (surface water) There is a significant amount ...

Decoding Ice Cores–Isotopic Analysis–How warm was the Earth in the past? part of CLEAN Collection

Scientific Notation Managing Really Big and Really Small Numbers in the Earth Sciences part of Math You Need - Majors:Scientific Notation
An Introduction to Scientific Notation Key Terms In 4.54 x 109, the number 4.54 is the coefficient. The coefficient can be any real number, positive or negative, but generally we write coefficients only between 1 ...