Lesson 3: The Value of a Water Footprint (Middle School) part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Session 1 of this lesson begins with a quick activity to get students thinking about their direct and virtual water use. It introduces a few new ideas for virtual water use that may surprise students, including the ...

Lesson 3: The Value of a Water Footprint (High School) part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Session 1 of this lesson begins with a quick activity to get students thinking about their direct and virtual water use. It introduces a few new ideas for virtual water use that may surprise students, including the ...

Virtual Geological Mapping Field Trip - Glens of Tekoa, New Zealand part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Geological mapping involves the observation, recording, presentation and interpretation of field data, all fundamental skills required by practicing geologists. This virtual geological mapping exercise enables ...

Measure surface reflectance and albedo with smartphone apps part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Using smartphones, students can measure the reflectance and albedo of water and other earth surfaces in the field. This is a great activity to reinforce the central concepts used in remote sensing. The smartphone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feedback Loops in the Field part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The Feedback Loops in the Field activity is an opportunity for students to apply both content knowledge and understanding of feedback loops in a setting outside of the classroom. The activity is intended to be ...

Reconnaissance stratigraphy and mapping of the Frying Pan Gulch, MT part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Students are required to create a reconnaissance geologic map and report for a small area (approximately 0.5 sq. mile) Frying Pan Gulch just NW of Dillon, Montana. This project is designed to make students familiar ...

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 ...

Field Trip Escape Iceland part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
Field Trip Escape Iceland: A Virtual Reality Field Trip and learning experience of Iceland geodiversity using escape room gamification. Students learn about physical geography and geodiversity to write a field ...