Student-Generated Sustainability Short Stories Anchored in Science and Information Literacies and the SDGs part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
To build and improve upon their science and information literacies, students create a collection of short non-fiction stories that connect to at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reflection: Multiple Sources in Systems Diagrams part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
In this activity, students reflect individually and as a class on the sources of information they used to create a systems diagram and why using multiple sources of information is important when creating systems ...

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 ...

A Penny For Your Thoughts: An Exercise in Taphonomy part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Physical and chemical (biostratinomic) processes that operate on an entity prior to its burial and incorporation into the fossil record ultimately influence how it is interpreted by a researcher when collected and ...

Rally Speeches for Coastal Optimism part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Storytelling is an effective way to communicate what is happening along our local-to-international coastal zones. However, most of the stories students hear are ones of "doom and gloom." Therefore, ...

What's in the Water? Benchmarking Activity part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This short (15-25 min) writing activity asks students to respond to a series of prompts related to the content knowledge and societal issues explored in the "What's in the Water?" PFAS Contamination ...

Using a collected rock, ROCKD, and MacroStrat off campus to hook students into introductory geology coursework on campus part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity asks students who are soon to enter an introductory geology course at the college level to collect a local rock from their home, vacation locale, or elsewhere prior to the course start date and do a ...

Assessing the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Reef Building Corals part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This activity introduces students to an actual data set that explores the impacts of ocean acidification on tropical coral reef ecosystems. Students are first given a scenario for a field site in the Caribbean and ...