Tree Ring Data and Environmental Variables part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
This activity uses Bristlecone pine tree-ring data to understand how tree growth is related to environmental variables. It can be used to test hypotheses about how tree growth has been increasing with increasing ...

Part 1: Exploring Tree-Ring Sites Around the World part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Take a look at the sheer number of tree-ring chronologies (green triangles) that have been made publically available by the scientists who originally collected them. Tree-ring scientists contribute their data to ...

The Colorado River Compact part of Water Science and Society:Student Materials
The Colorado River flows almost 1500 km from its headwaters in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico, through Nevada, Arizona, and California, before crossing the border to Mexico and flowing to the Gulf of ...

Part 3 - Exploring Tree-Ring Sites Around the World part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Introduction Take a look at the huge number of published tree-ring chronologies (green triangles) that have been made available to the public by the scientists who originally collected them. Tree-ring scientists ...

Tree Ring Model part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students manipulate a hands-on, physical model to better comprehend the natural variations of tree-ring width and their uses for determining past climatic ...

Climate and the Biosphere: Lab Overviews part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
1. Climate, Weather, and Trees In this lab, you are introduced to the relationship between climate and trees and well as the Vermont maple syrup industry, the case study for this module. You will consider the ...

Part 3. The Future of Climate part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Next up, we are going to consider what the future might look like for northwestern North America, specifically Alaska. How can we make predictions about future climate? While tree rings and other proxies tell us ...

Lab 3: Land Ice part of EarthLabs for Educators:Climate and the Cryosphere
The lab activity described here was developed by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives In the first part of this lab, students will learn about how glaciers form and the ...

Quantitative reasoning in the geosciences through data-rich activities and projects part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Essays
Dan Maxbauer, Geology Department, Carleton College Understanding how to think about data and to make data-driven interpretations is a learned skill that is important across a range of disciplines and career paths. ...

Welcome to TREX! part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions
Dendrochronologists often travel to remote regions across the world in search of old, slow growing, trees that capture the environmental conditions where they live in their annual growth rings. By studying these ...