Alyssa Abbey

Using the Visible Geology tools to strengthen students' geoscientific skills part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2026:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
Spatial and temporal reasoning are key components of geoscientific thinking, essential for both solving complex problems and preparing students for the modern workforce. We have created a set of activities that use ...

Cover Letter Writing Project part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity helps students learn about and draft a cover letter for a job or internship. The focus is on Earth Science students and jobs, but the activity is easily adaptable for other majors/careers. The ...

Trees From Thin Air part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The exercise presented here is one of a suite of activities for learners of all ages that has been developed from the standard allometric equations for the above-ground biomass of trees (Chave et. al., 2005; ...

QTQt: Beyond the User Manual part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This module works through a series of prepared rock thermal history modeling activities using the freely available software package QTQt. In the first few activities, students will (i) learn how to build input data ...

The Rock Cycle: building descriptive skills part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The goal of this activity is to have students become comfortable and adept at making observations about differences in rocks, describing those differences in a useful and meaningful way, and making connections with ...