Geologic Issues: Community Impacts and Science Communication part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Responding to the need for recruitment and retention of a diverse geoscience population, we developed a capstone homework assignment for use in introductory-level geoscience courses. This is a place- and ...

SSBW - Python Tutorial 3: Pandas and an Earthquake Cross-Section part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using the basic syntax of Python commands, 2) use the functionality of the Pandas module to create DataFrames to store data, ...

Introduction to Remote Sensing part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This course introduces students to the principles of remote sensing, characteristics of remote sensors, and remote sensing applications. Areas emphasized include manipulating data in Google Earth Engine, ...

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) ...

Magma Degassing 1 part of Teach the Earth:Magma Labs
This exercise introduces students to concepts of how magma gas content is important for eruption style. Students use the vesicles preserved in different volcanic rocks to estimate gas content by calculating ...

Google Earth Investigation of Pleistocene Flood Deposits Across the Pacific Northwest part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this activity, students use Google Earth Pro to examine and measure sedimentary and geomorphic structures related to the late Pleistocene draining of glacial Lake Missoula and Lake Bonneville.

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 ...

Mapping Ice Melt Extent in Greenland between 1979-2007 Using ArcGIS part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity introduces students to Greenland ice-melt data derived from passive microwave remote sensing between the years 1979 and 2007. Students make a quantitative comparison between the two years using the ...

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 3: Spectrograms part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) create a Jupyter notebook on a Linux system, 2) practice using basic Python syntax, 3) use the ObsPy library to retrieve seismograms ...