Youth and Law part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Activities
Students, faculty, staff, and other community volunteers will collaborate in groups with the delivery of a Law-Related Education (LRE)program that goes beyond questions about who, what, when, and where. LRE helps ...

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 ...

Torn Pieces of a Newspaper part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
A successful unit on plate tectonics begins with engaging learners about the puzzle of the continents. Using "torn pieces of a newspaper" (Wegener's actual words), students recreate the newspaper ...

Glacial Landscapes Jigsaw with an Augmented Reality Sandbox part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
A jigsaw style activity where students learn the basics of topographic maps and teach their peers about glacial landforms through use of an augmented reality sandbox.

Ocean Acidification/Acid Rain Demonstration with a Soda Stream part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Using a SodaStream or other household carbonation appliance to teach about acidification and its effects on the environment.

Torn Pieces of a Newspaper part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
A successful unit on plate tectonics begins with engaging learners about the puzzle of the continents. Using "torn pieces of a newspaper" (Wegener's actual words), students recreate the newspaper ...

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 ...

Paleobiology: Evolution and Extinction part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity introduces students to the impact of population size, population distribution, and environmental events on extinction processes.

Lab Field Trip program for K-12 Students, Hosted by University Researchers part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
University researchers host K-12 students for a hands-on laboratory field trip that is integrated with science class curriculum and includes mentorship and/or broadening diversity in science activities. Students ...

Visual Story-Telling Project for Grades 6-12 part of Climate Education in an Age of Media:Use Student Media Production:Activities
Students will learn how to use a sequence of images to illustrate the difference between sequestering and emitting carbon.

Modeling the Effects of Dam Removal on the Elwha River part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Students are introduced to the social and scientific issues surrounding the removal of the Glines Canyon Dam on the Elwha River, and conduct a hands-on experiment with real-world application to observe the effects ...

Modeling Glacier Dynamics with Flubber part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
We created a hands-on activity for middle and high school students that describes glacier mass balance in a changing climate. The students make a glacier using glue, water and detergent ("flubber") and ...

Public Service Announcement (PSA) for grades 6-12 part of Climate Education in an Age of Media:Use Student Media Production:Activities
Students research a climate change topic of their choice and create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) that communicates their understanding of the science, raises awareness about the causes and consequences of climate change and motivates people to take action in their communities, families and their own lives. Students learn first-hand about the challenges of communicating about climate change in a compelling way. The PSA project offers students opportunities to use creativity and twenty-first century technology skills while empowering them to become stewards and advocates for social change as it relates to climate change.

Geo Sandbox Water Budget part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
During this second of five activities, the instructor introduces a miniature watershed, named a GeoSandbox. Students introduce known quantities of water to the GeoSandbox using spray bottles and measure the ...

Large Scale Watershed - Battelle Darby Creek part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
This fourth of five activities expands the watershed examined from a schoolyard to a large drainage that cannot be viewed from one location. The activity includes an examination of changing land uses within the ...

Soup Can Water Budget part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
During this first of five activities, students use materials to create an apparatus and process to investigate the ultimate destination for water falling on a watershed. Students make quantitative measurements and ...

Small Scale Watershed - Schoolyard part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
During this third of five activities, students are taken to an area of the schoolyard that is readily seen from one location. The surface area and slope are measured, the land use is noted, and students estimate ...

3D Printing Microfossils part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This resource provides a number of stl files that are a result of IODP and Joides Resolution coring and recovery efforts. These files can be 3D printed to provide students with a tangible example of something that ...

IODP 310: Coral Reef off Tahiti part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
In this activity, students will make observations about the core that was collected on IODP expedition 310.

Secrets of the Sediments - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity is a Google Slide playlist. Students will analyze data from sediments collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, California to determine whether this information can be used to study historical climate ...