LeAnne Teruya

Activities that Warm Students Up to Glaciers part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Friday B
Three simple activities can be used to help students understand the internal and external processes that take place when glaciers advance. Students will learn that in addition to gravity pulling glaciers downhill, ...

Heirloom Geology: How to Create an Inclusive Classroom by Centering Place-based Geology on Students' Cultural Heritage and Personal Histories part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Share-a-Thon
This activity uses students' cultural heritage and personal experience as a form of place-based geology. As an introduction to minerals, students are asked to provide a photo and write about a culturally or ...

Think Like a Geologist Field Trip to Downtown San Jose part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Activities
Urban geology fieldtrip designed for civil engineering students taking an introductory geology class.

Finding a Global View at the Intersection of Geology and Engineering part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Engineering, Sustainability, and the Geosciences:Essays
LeAnne Teruya, Geology, San Jose State University On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused massive destruction and an astounding loss of 316,000 lives. Little more than a ...