Oman Drilling Project Core Analysis GT2A-120Z2 part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity uses core images and graphics as a way for students to analyze data. Students will use the key in order to determine the substances present in the Oman Drilling Project core.

Oman Drilling Project Core Analysis #2 part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity uses core images and graphics as a way for students to analyze data. Students will use the key in order to determine the substances present in the Oman Drilling Project core.

ODP 171b K/T Core Observations part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity provides a way for remote, hybrid, and face-to-face students to examine the K/T core (evidence for the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs) by recording their observations.

What Lives Down There? part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Learners will travel through a process of learning involving reading a book together, comparing video presentations to information within the book, utilize vocabulary to demonstrate expansion of retained ...

Hallway Sediment Core Mural part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
For the activity, a world map will be constructed in the hallway. Students will be provided with data sets that explain different pieces of evidence. Students will analyze the visual evidence, and will tape the ...

Climate Crisis Mini-Unit part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This mini-unit includes topics including climate anxiety, climate justice, climate activism, wide-scale climate, among others. Each day there is a new topic, and a do-now, activity and reflection. The goals of this ...

Activity 13: Finding solutions (Modeling Interconnected Systems Part 3) part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Students read a brief overview of water scarcity and what causes water scarcity. Then students watch two videos that show how water scarcity can impact people and the environment from two different angles. Using ...

Activity 12: Modeling Interconnected Systems Part 2 part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Students research how a food is created, transported, and supplied to people. Once they understand the way the food is made, students create a LOOPY diagram that shows the different stages the ingredients and food ...

Living Microorganisms, Shark Bay, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
3,000 years ago microbes started building up stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia. These structures are the earliest signs of life on Earth, and are considered the longest continuing biological lineage. ...

Upheaval Dome, Moab USA part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Upheaval Dome is circular depression of folded and faulted rocks located in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. It is approximately 5 km in diameter and estimated to be less than 170 million yrs old. There are two ...

Oldest Multicellular Animals: Nilpena, South Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, fossils of the earliest multicellular animals, called the Ediacara fauna, appear in the rock record and evolve in three distinct stages. Then suddenly, ...

Oldest Multicellular Animals: Nilpena, South Australia (unguided VFT) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, fossils of the earliest multicellular animals, called the Ediacara fauna, appear in the rock record and evolve in three distinct stages. Then suddenly, ...

Exploring the Grand Caynon (unguided VFT) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...

Modeling Global Climate Change part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
This activity explores the role of energy in global climate change. Students explore netlogo models of climate, and learn about cumulative effects.

Atoms and Molecules part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Both of these lessons are classroom activities that require students to build models that display understanding of atoms and molecules. One lesson is structured while the other is guided.

Modeling Valence Electrons part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a guided practice and scaffolding activity in which the students learn how to configure electrons of elements and determine the number of valence electrons.

Rock Cycle Skit part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a skit, commercial or song/rap about the rock cycle

The Waves and Tsunamis Project part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
How is a tsunami like a wave on a string? We assemble rubber bands, paper clips and washers into strings with various mass distributions to observe the effects on wave characteristics. The project is supplemented ...

The First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to understand friction and inertia,.

Food Web and Chains Activity using Differentiated Tiering by Level of Challenge and Complexity part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
By using this tiered assignment students at different levels are able to review characteristics of living things by either creating a food web or food chart.