Virtual Petrography part of Teach the Earth:Sites
The Virtual Petrography website is an open educational resource that is geared toward educators who teach introductory to intermediate level courses in optical mineralogy and petrology. This web database of ...

The Thunderstorm and Wind Gods of Japan part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity includes a PowerPoint slide show (or PDF version) of a special topic lecture and in-class handout for students. Students listen to a lecture, then answer questions on the handout, either individually ...

Introduction to Mineralogy part of Teach the Earth:Courses
This is a hybrid-traditional course, involving face to face laboratory sessions, asynchronous online work, and synchronous online instruction/activities.

Virtual Lab: "Big Nine" Silicates in Thin Section part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This virtual lab activity uses Virtual Microscope to help students create their own ranked lists of diagnostic properties for the "Big Nine" silicate minerals/groups, which includes quartz, muscovite, ...

In William Smith's footsteps: a modern take on regional stratigraphy part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity uses modern Google Earth to view 3D geological cross sections from the British Geological Survey, in order to trace the units that formed William Smith's 'Map That Changed The World". ...

Field saturated hydraulic conductivity part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This is a field-based lab that allows students to measure field saturated hydraulic conductivity of the unsaturated soils. This is done by keeping a constant head in an augured hole and measuring the time required ...

Linking Earthquakes and Geologic Time by Paleoseismology part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In teaching general education Earth Science lecture, to make connections between separate topics I have created a paleoseismology activity that requires students to apply principles of relative geologic time to the ...

Find the Feedback Loop part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity is designed build students' capacity to spot and analyze feedback loops that they encounter in real life, outside of school. Students read an instructor-provided article from the popular media ...

The Rock Cycle: building descriptive skills part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The goal of this activity is to have students become comfortable and adept at making observations about differences in rocks, describing those differences in a useful and meaningful way, and making connections with ...

Creative Discovery Project: Developing Accurate & Accessible Science Communication part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The aim of this project is for students to gain experience in communicating scientific evidence to a public audience. For example, how is it that science journalists, museum experts, podcasters, and documentarians ...