Sara Harris

Relative Dating on Earth and Mars part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Students apply principles of relative dating to a cross-section, then to the surface of Mars.

Testing the Fixed-hotspot-moving-plate model part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Students examine hot spot tracks, magnetic inclination data, and coral data from the Hawaii-Emperor Seamount Chain to test the hypothesis that hotspots are fixed. Most students have learned somewhere that hotspots ...

Where was that earthquake? part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection

Is it a Mineral? part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection

Absorption by atmospheric gases of incoming and outgoing radiation part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
This is an educational activity page from the CLEAN collection that uses a jigsaw pedagogy to teach undergraduate students how atmospheric gases absorb incoming and outgoing radiation, interpret absorption spectra, identify greenhouse gases, and estimate Earth's surface temperature using satellite data.

What makes a greenhouse gas a greenhouse gas? part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
This educational resource page presents a peer-reviewed, PhET simulation-based classroom activity for introductory college-level students to investigate how greenhouse gases interact with visible and infrared radiation, contrasting their behavior with major atmospheric gases, and to understand the mechanisms of photon absorption and re-emission that underlie the greenhouse effect.

Activity Suite: How Does The Greenhouse Effect Influence Global Temperature? part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
This educational resource page presents a suite of climate science teaching activities focused on explaining the greenhouse effect and its influence on global temperature, covering core concepts such as radiation budgets, greenhouse gas properties, and Earth system interactions, designed for introductory undergraduate instruction and aligned with climate literacy principles.

Quantifying Biodiversity part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection

Earth and the Solar System part of Introductory Courses:Courses
This is high enrollment science course for non-science students in which we examine the evidence for how geological, biological, atmospheric, oceanic, and climatic processes work and interact here on Earth. We then ...

Overcoming the Obstacles to Teaching Reform part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Afternoon Mini Workshops
Transitions to evidence-based, student-centered teaching can involve practical, human, and system-level challenges. How do we transform our own teaching practices, and also develop critical mass to change cultural ...

Heads and Chairs: Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Morning Workshops:Heads and Chairs: Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education
This workshop is intended to help department heads, chairs, and undergraduate program directors with addressing challenges in their curricula and/or degree programs aimed at better preparing their students for ...

Online and Hybrid Learning part of Rendezvous 2015:Program:Mini Workshops:Online & Hybrid Learning
How do we maximize student learning opportunities in on-line and hybrid* courses? In this workshop, we will explore ways to best take advantage of student contributions, instructor expertise, and existing ...