An Assessment of Hillslope Stability Using the Factor of Safety part of Activity Collection
In this homework assignment students are asked to consider the balance of forces on a hill slope using the Factor of Safety.

Reading Topographic Maps and Calculating Map Scale part of Activity Collection
Use a topographic map to deliniate a watershed, draw a map bar scale, and calculate a map ratio scale.

Laboratory Activity: The Sun and Climate part of Activity Collection
In this physical geography lab, students examine the relationship between solar altitude, solar declination, and temperature regimes. Using data collected in the field, mathematical relationships, and temperature records available on the Internet, students compare the insolation and climate in their location to that of other locations.

My Special Place part of Activity Collection
Students pick a place of significance to them (their Special Place) for analysis in this semester-long project. (A model is provided by the instructor using a place the students are not likely to have visited.)

Illustrating Hillslope Diffusion with Physical and Numerical Models part of Activity Collection
This problem illustrates how numerical theories are developed, how we might test this theory with an analog model, and how numerical models are constructed and the limitations of numerical modeling.

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Scale of the Himalayas part of Activity Collection
Question Let's imagine a scale model of the Earth, and let's imagine that the Earth is the size of a basketball. Suppose that you wanted to build the Himalayas to scale on the surface of the basketball. ...

Environmental Footprint part of Activity Collection
This activity has students do a web-based environmental footprint quiz and integrate their results into a class mean. The students compare their results by creating a bar graph and do some simple calculations to see how much of the Earth just the population of the US requires.

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Height of the Himalayas part of Activity Collection

Westward Ho! How Far is Yonder Mountain part of Activity Collection
PowerPoint module leading students through development of a spreadsheet to calculate the distance of a mountain peak from coplanar vertical angles shot from two points a known distance apart.

GEO-Logic: How Well Do You Know Your National Parks and Memorials part of Activity Collection
Students are asked to associate historical figures with a particular National Park or Memorial (and its size) as well as the number of points they scored in a fictitious game show, based on clues about the situation given from various perspectives.