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Evaluating the Effects of Local Energy Resource Development
Devin Castendyk, SUNY College at Oneonta
This is a semester-long, jigsaw project for a class of 20 to 25 students that has students work in teams to explore the effects of energy resource development on local water resources, economics and society.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Project, Field Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Water Quality/Chemistry , Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy , Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Local Policy, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Policy:Energy Policy

Computerized Field Trip Preview of the Berkshire Mountains
Chris Condit, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
This is a computer (Windows, Macintosh) based exercise designed to take about two hours. Students use a 5 page short-answer study sheet with the Berkshire Field Trip Map, Guidebook and associated images of the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology

Petrography and Petrogenesis of a Mid-Ocean Ridge Lava Suite
Matthew Smith, University of Florida; Mike Perfit, University of Florida
This activity is designed to accompany a set of thin sections available from the authors. Students investigate mid-ocean ride basalt petrography and relate observed mineralogic changes to relevant phase diagrams ...

Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Images/Illustrations, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Lab Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Audio/Visual:Maps
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Geochemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Geochemical Analysis, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings, Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Processes

Expedition to the PreCambrian
Michael Phillips, Illinois Valley Community College; Walter Borowski, Eastern Kentucky University
A group exercise that investigates geological, atmospheric, hydrologic, and biological conditions during the Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic. Students will plan a trip to a certain time period within the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science

Video Games as Physical Geology Labs
Ronald Dorn, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This resource includes a series of laboratory activities associated with geovisualizations that look and play like a video game. The student controls the video game camera and the avatar to interact with DEM ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience

First Burrowing Animals, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Deep in the hills of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia scientists continue to study one of the most enigmatic stories in the history of life on Earth. This site preserves evidence of a dramatic change in the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology

Earliest Record of Life, Australia
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The Dresser Formation is part of the mostly volcanic Warrawoona Group in the North Pole Dome area of the East Pilbara located in the State of Western Australia. At 3.49 billion years old, this formation contains ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology

Field collection and community analysis project
Karen Koy, Missouri Western State University
The class will take field trips to different fossil localities in Missouri, where students will collect and identify the fossils they find. They will perform a community analysis, using a statistics program. The ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Virtual Field Trip, Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Extinction and Diversity , Paleoecology , Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Field Techniques , Online Resources/Computer Software

Haviland Lake Virtual Field Experience
Carolyn Tewksbury-Christle, Fort Lewis College
Students explore an exposure of the Great Unconformity north of Durango, CO. This virtual field experience (VFE) allows students to freely explore 3D outcrops and is scaffolded to get students to answer the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology

Wind River Eco-Challenge: A Virtual Excursion Exercise for Introducing Topographic Maps
Suki Smaglik, Laramie County Community College
This classroom activity simulates an eco-challenge course in the Wind River Mountains, which are close to our campus. Our goal is that students approach their recreational adventures more prepared than they would ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Subject: Geography:Physical

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