Vostok Ice Core: Excel (Mac or PC) part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples
Students use Excel to graph and analyze Vostok ice core data (160,000 years of Ice core data from Vostok Station). Data includes ice age, ice depth, carbon dioxide, methane, dust, and deuterium isotope relative ...

Example Excel Activities part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models
Level I Activities The Level I activities assume no prior knowledge of the spreadsheet environment and focus on fairly basic skills of labels and numbers, equation entry, formatting, and graphing using Microsoft ...

Carbon Dioxide Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Students work in groups, plotting carbon dioxide concentrations over time on overheads and estimating the rate of change over five years. -

Some Suggested Links to Data part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data
Earth Observatory. The Earth Observatory data and images page provides an interactive way to view some of the dynamic processes on our planet. Most of the datasets begin in 1978 and extend to the present. Data is ...

Integrated Earth Systems part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Earth System Science in a Nutshell:Example Courses
Introduction to numerous global change issues through the exploration of the integrated Earth system; problem-solving strategies within an interdisciplinary team environment.

Winter Geohydrology part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Service Learning:Examples
This geohydrology course is built around a winter pond study and a snowpack analysis of a skiing area. Both projects are ice- and snow-dependent projects for use in the Vermont winter.

Teaching Science to Creationist Students part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Earth History Approach:Addressing Creationism
Strategies A common way to address creationist beliefs is to tell or show students that there are a lot of different ways to look at rocks and Earth history, but that the class will focus only on the scientific ...

Earth System Science Course Design Matrix Emphasizing Human Interactions Over Time part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach:Designing an Earth System Course
Understanding the imprint of past human behavior on the landscape provides powerful analogies for understanding the implications of human impact on the Earth system in the future. Archaeology, historical ...

Earth's surface part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Using an Earth System Approach
Fundamentals of Physical Geography. The Fundamentals of Physical Geography website is designed to be a free online textbook for University and College students studying introductory Physical Geography. Version 1.0 ...

Popular Science Books part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Earth History Approach
This list is intended to be representative rather than exhaustive. Most popular science books are focused not only on the biosphere, but on the fauna. Mass extinctions are an especially popular theme. General The ...