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 ...

Virtual Reality Strike and Dip Tool part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
The strike and dip tool is currently a web/desktop based virtual reality teaching instrument designed to practice taking strike and dip measurements and using those measurements to compile a geologic map. We have 5 ...

Structure from Motion for Analysis of River Characteristics part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
In this assignment, students conduct a Structure from Motion (SfM) survey of the Sheep Draw field site along the Poudre River near Greely, CO. The end product is a point cloud used in additional assignments to ...

Sage Hen Flat fieldcamp/capstone activity part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This activity attempts to simulate the process of field-based science investigation for the Sage Hen Flat area of the White Mountains, California. The Sage Hen Flat pluton is Jurassic in age and intrudes ...

The First Field Trip: An introduction to sedimentation and stratigraphy part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Field Labs:Field Lab Examples
An example set of tasks and questions for the first field trip of a 300-level Sedimentology and Stratigraphy course.

Post-processing GPS/GNSS Base Station Position part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This assignment uses static GNSS methods to establish a base station used to establish a control point for a kinematic survey (establishing ground control points used in Structure from Motion for Analysis of River ...

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 ...

Exploring the Grand Canyon: Mystery of Blacktail Canyon part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nearly two billion years of the Earth's geological history has been exposed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut their channels through layers of rock while the Colorado Plateau was uplifted. ...

DEM of Difference (DoD) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This assignment builds on students' point cloud and raster differencing skills practiced on their SfM and TLS data in the previous assignment. In this assignment, the students use two lidar-derived raster ...

Urban Wildlife Garden as a Pedagogical Tool for Environmental Studies part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Garden showcasing its eight habitats is used as a primary source for baseline environmental data collection, analysis and discussion. Basic concepts of biodiversity, ...