Coriolis Effect Activity
Laura Wetzel, Eckerd College
The Coriolis Effect is the deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame. In oceanography, we are most interested in how the Coriolis Effect moves winds and ocean currents on the ...

Ionic sizes and crystal structures (Pauling's rule #1)
Susannah Dorfman, Michigan State University
Students derive the radius ratio rule of ionic coordination (Pauling's 1st rule) empirically using balls of different sizes followed by a mathematical derivation.

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 1: Interacting with an Online Jupyter Notebook
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use a Jupyter notebook interface to interact with code created by someone else, 3) edit code ...

Geologic Time Scale CogSketch geoscience worksheet
Bridget Garnier
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. This worksheet has students build the geologic time scale by adding events on increasing larger scales, from 1 million years to 4.56 billion ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 2: Next Steps
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) redirect information to or from files, 3) use ...

Math Review
Kallina Dunkle, Austin Peay State University
This is designed as an introductory lab for hydrogeology or other upper-level courses that are quantitative in nature in order to review key mathematical concepts that will be used throughout the semester.

River Flooding and Erosion
Bill Dupre, University of Houston-University Park
Students take a real-life situation (river flooding and erosion), use real flood and map data, and make predictions and recommendations as to what to do to help alleviate the problem.

Sustainability and Changing Rates of Change
Christopher Coughenour, The Evergreen State College
To understand sustainability, students must understand rates of change. This activity includes a primer on basic rates concepts and an exercise that motivates critical thinking about rates of change and sustainability with an analysis of historical petroleum production rates data from the United States and the world.

Introduction to Science - Penny Histograms
Kathryn, Green River Community College; Kathryn Hoppe, Green River Community College
Overview: This exercise serves as an introduction to histograms. Students are given a short introduction to histograms in lecture and reading. They are then broken up into different groups of 3-5 students. Students ...

Modeling Atmospheric CO2 Data
John B. VanLeer, Cascadia Community College
In this activity, students will use actual CO2 data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii to create their own "Keeling Curve"; conduct an analysis of the data; and, attempt to match it to a mathematical function. They will then use the function to predict increases in CO2, both historical and future.