Earth System Science Unit Overview
Erin Bardar; Nick Haddad, TERC
Student Pages » The lab activities in this module were adapted by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. The Workshop Leader Resources were developed by Nick Haddad of TERC, Project Director of the ...

Meander Migration in the Amazon Basin
Les Hasbargen, SUNY College at Oneonta
This activity is targeted at introductory to upper division undergraduate courses in geomorphology or Earth system science. Students view time series animation of satellite imagery of part of the Amazon River basin ...

Hurricane Time Series Analysis
Henry Potter, Texas A & M University
This activity uses Atlantic hurricane data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Students will run the code provided to produce figures (scatter plots, time series, and histograms) that ...

Modeling Rare Plant Distributions Using ArcGIS
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, students work with rare plant occurrence data from the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California to create species distribution maps in ArcGIS. Students are given shapefiles of species ...

Lab 2: Earth's Frozen Oceans
The lab activity described here was developed by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives In Part A, students will learn about how sea ice forms and influences ocean currents ...

Burn Scar Analysis for the 2018 Paradise Fires Using ArcGIS Pro
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
This exercise introduces students to satellite imagery analysis of burn scars, using the 2018 Camp Fire of Butte County, California. Students will learn to pre-process and enhance these images in order to create a ...

Mapping Ice Melt Extent in Greenland between 1979-2007 Using ArcGIS
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
This activity introduces students to Greenland ice-melt data derived from passive microwave remote sensing between the years 1979 and 2007. Students make a quantitative comparison between the two years using the ...

Assessing the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Reef Building Corals
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
This activity introduces students to an actual data set that explores the impacts of ocean acidification on tropical coral reef ecosystems. Students are first given a scenario for a field site in the Caribbean and ...

Introducing the Educational Global Climate Model to Cement Climate Change Learning
Drew Bush, McGill University
Summary These three laboratory activities build student knowledge of anthropogenic global climate change through use of the Columbia University-National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Institute for ...

Sea Ice Extension for the Earth as a System Learning Activity
Gary Randolph, GLOBE
The purpose is to identify global patterns and connections in environmental data contained in the GLOBE Earth Systems Poster; to connect observations made within the Earth Systems Poster to data and information at ...