Part 2: Explore the Colorado River Basin part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Have you been in a drought? Are you living through one now? Most places in the United States experience drought occasionally. Sometimes, drought causes widespread interruptions of daily life. Other times, drought ...

Lab 1 - Launching an Expedition part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Note: This work is under development but has been released temporarily for classroom testing purposes. Introduction Dendrochronologists often travel to remote regions across the world in search of old, slow ...

Teaching about Radiometric Dating part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Earth History Approach:Addressing Creationism
Students, particularly Young-Earth Creationists, may come in with misconceptions about how the age of the Earth and of various parts of the fossil record were determined. For example, they may assume that the ...

Climate, Weather, and Trees part of EarthLabs:Climate and the Biosphere
Part B: Case Study: Life of a Maple Tree Imagine what your life would be like if you could live for hundreds of years; some maple trees can do just that! Use the series of pictures in the image, right, to ...

Part 1. Past Climate Extremes and Impacts part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
As described in the Introduction, the Little Ice Age (~1450-1850 CE) was a significant period of cool climate in the Northern Hemisphere. The end of the Little Ice Age was especially cold, in part due to several ...

Part 3 - Exploring Tree-Ring Sites Around the World part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX for Students:Labs
Note: This work is under development but has been released temporarily for classroom testing purposes. Introduction Take a look at the huge number of published tree-ring chronologies (green triangles) that have ...

Webinar: Using Tree-Ring Research to Develop Critical Scientific Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Students part of TREX - Tree Ring Expeditions:TREX Guides
Thursday, November 2, 2017 12:00 pm PT | 1:00 pm MT | 2:00 pm CT | 3:00 pm ET Presenter: Dr. Nicole Davi (William Paterson University & Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory) Jump down to: Resources, including ...

CLEAN Teleconference Call December 4th, 2018 part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:CLEAN Teleconference Presentations
This presentation will demonstrate several science education simulations, both computer-based and hands-on, relevant to climate and Earth science topics.

Droughts part of Water Science and Society:Student Materials
How do you know when you're in a drought? Identifying an area as 'in drought' is different from identifying it as 'arid'. While the two may seem related, the subtle difference is ...

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