Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: The Distance Radio Waves Have Traveled part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question We have been broadcasting radio waves in all directions since the development of radio and television stations. How far could you be from the Earth and detect the faint signals of an early Star Trek ...

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Energy Released in an Earthquake part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question A magnitude 8.5 earthquake (such as the 1964 Good Friday earthquake in Alaska) releases about 1x1018 joules of energy. The atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima released about 1.5x1013 joules of energy. How ...

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations: Eruption Rates part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question Over the last 70 million years or so, the Hawaiian Hot Spot has been pumping out lava, a total of about 775,000 km3 worth. As the Pacific Plate has moved over the hot spot, the volcanic peaks and plateaus ...

The Earth's Shells - Density vs. Depth part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
In this module, students are asked to devise a way of graphically plotting the density variations with depth in the Earth.

Stress and Strain part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: trigonometry, graphing by Dr. Carol Ormand (University of Wisconsin - Madison) and Dr. Eric Baer (Highline Community College) Jump down to: Stress, strain, & structures | Conditions ...

Understanding Trends part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Related quantitative concepts: Basic graphing skills, Interpolation/Extrapolation, Functions', Graph Significance, Graphing confusion by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ...

How big was that quake? part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: probablility, recurrence intervals, logarithms by Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College Essential Concepts Generally there are several main concepts that our students ...

STELLA Systems Modeling part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Use STELLA to model an aquifer/ground-water-contaminant system.

BotEC: The Magnitude of the India-Asia Collision part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Question: The story of the Himalayas can be traced back to the breakup of the supercontinent, called Pangaea, about 200 million years ago, when India began its rapid movement northward towards Asia. Asia was a much ...

BotEC: The Himalayas and Continental Drift part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Queston: The story of the Himalayas can be traced back to the breakup of the supercontinent, called Pangaea, about 200 million years ago, when India began its rapid movement northward towards Asia. Asia was a much ...