Water Optimism - focusing on solutions for the hydrosphere in a take-home final exam part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This take-home final exam asks students to demonstrate their improved skills in searching for sources (information literacy) and writing on freshwater science/society/policy intersections (science literacy), and ...

OGGM-Edu Glaciology Lab 3: Simulating glacier flow part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This is a lab activity to involve students in understanding glacier flow, and how ice flow is a defining factor in how glaciers react to climate change. The activity introduces two resources: A video of ...

What's in the Water? Lesson 5: The Health Effects of PFAS part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Lesson 5 of the "What's in the Water?" PFAS Contamination Unit" addresses the crucial question of what we know about how PFAS impacts our health, and how that information can (or cannot) be used ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 1: IRIS Earthquake Browser part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will use the IRIS Earthquake Browser to 1) explore global geographic earthquake patterns, particularly in relation to plate boundaries, ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 2: GMAP, MDA, and MUSTANG Databrowser part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS GMAP Station Browser to identify what seismic stations have data available based on a geographic region, a time ...

Identifying Tsunami Sand in Salt Marsh Stratigraphy part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Through a hands-on activity using salt marsh sediment cores from Pacific Northwest estuaries, students will learn how these environments record the history of earthquakes and tsunami. Students will analyze the ...

Flooding, flood risks, and what populations are impacted part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this lab, students learn about four different types of flood: flash floods, regional floods, storm surges, and tsunami. They then explore the human experience of flooding and who is impacted the most by flooding ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 1: Basics part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) navigate directories and pathnames in Linux, 3) ...

What’s in the Water? Lesson 2: Introduction to Emerging Contaminants part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This lesson begins with a reading of a letter sent by the City of Pittsboro, NC to their residents. It reveals the presence of unregulated contaminants in their drinking water, including the emerging contaminant ...

Activity 11: Modeling Interconnected Systems part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity starts by introducing students to the ways industries in the United States use water and asking students to predict how much water is used to produce a variety of common goods. After presenting the ...