Cartography, Landforms and Landform Analysis part of Quantitative Skills:Courses
Geography 205 is an introductory course to physical geography. This course, the first of a two course series (the other is Geography 206: Weather, Climate and Ecosystems) for Physical Geography at Shoreline ...

Computer-Aided Analysis For Geosciences part of Course Design:Goals Database
Applications of statistical, numerical and mathematical methods useful for Geosciences; Matlab programming.

Coriolis Effect Activity part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The Coriolis Effect is the deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame. In oceanography, we are most interested in how the Coriolis Effect moves winds and ocean currents on the ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 2: Next Steps 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) redirect information to or from files, 3) use ...

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 1: Interacting with an Online Jupyter Notebook part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use a Jupyter notebook interface to interact with code created by someone else, 3) edit code ...

Math Review part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
This is designed as an introductory lab for hydrogeology or other upper-level courses that are quantitative in nature in order to review key mathematical concepts that will be used throughout the semester.

Geologic Time Scale CogSketch geoscience worksheet part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. This worksheet has students build the geologic time scale by adding events on increasing larger scales, from 1 million years to 4.56 billion ...

River Flooding and Erosion part of Urban Geology:Activities
Students take a real-life situation (river flooding and erosion), use real flood and map data, and make predictions and recommendations as to what to do to help alleviate the problem.

Introduction to Science - Penny Histograms part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
Overview: This exercise serves as an introduction to histograms. Students are given a short introduction to histograms in lecture and reading. They are then broken up into different groups of 3-5 students. Students ...

Ionic sizes and crystal structures (Pauling's rule #1) part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Students derive the radius ratio rule of ionic coordination (Pauling's 1st rule) empirically using balls of different sizes followed by a mathematical derivation.