Examples

Activity 2.3: Constructing the Argument part of Exploring Geoscience Methods
In Activity 2.3, students make an argument from evidence to address the problem: "To what extent should we build or rebuild coastal communities?" Students work as a team to complete a graphic organizer. ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Education, Geoscience
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills, Special Topics:Using Issues to Teach Science, Communication Skills:Writing

Visualizing Data from a Journal Article: A Critical Thinking Exercise part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
This is a take-home exercise for junior or senior-level students in a Sedimentation/Stratigraphy course. It may be used to bridge topics of geomorphology, depositional environments and clastic sedimentology. The ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology, Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills

Unit 6: Systems Thinking Synthesis part of Systems Thinking
This in-class exercise is an alternative to standard review sessions and models the systems thinking students need to do when working on complex, interdisciplinary issues. Students quiz each other on course ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience, Geography, Environmental Science
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Other:Discussion, Assessment

Monitoring Lead in an Urban Community Garden part of Service Learning:Activities
Each spring, students in a 300-level field course collect samples from urban community gardens to monitor soil lead concentrations.

Subject: Environmental Science, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Soils
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Pedagogic Methods:Projects, Teaching in Specific Environments:Place Based Learning, Field, Communication Skills:Writing, Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology, Pedagogic Methods:Projects:Service Learning

A Toast to a Scientist - Celebrating Identity and Accomplishments part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
To bring attention to a more inclusive population of scientists and to help students develop their own science identity, students are assigned to write a speech that could be given as a "toast" at an ...

Subject: Geoscience
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Special Topics:Using Media, Pedagogic Methods:Other:Cooperative Learning, Group Work, Communication Skills:Writing

Case Study: Zhouqu, China Landslide part of Environmental Geology:Activities
This is a 'citizen science' research project where students to apply their knowledge of landslide processes in an investigation of the natural and anthropogenic causes of a real-world landslide ...

Subject: Geography, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Environmental Science, Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills, Writing

Natural Hazards Term Project part of Environmental Geology:Activities
Students apply the concepts learned in the class by preparing two (2) term projects discussing two natural hazards and how they impact the area where the student lives (or an area the student might like to live in).

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science, Natural Hazards
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills

Teaching the nitrogen cycle and human health interactions part of Geology and Human Health:Workshop 04:Activities
This activity uses objects, pictures, and text in a matching game to define the nitrogen cycle and the environmental and human health impacts of nitrogen. The game can be used to associate useful and detrimental ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Soils, Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Organic and Biochemistry, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Waste:Toxic and Hazardous Wastes:Bio/Medical Wastes, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Biogeochemical cycling
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Pedagogic Methods:Other:Group Work, Communication Skills:Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Other:Cooperative Learning

Replicating Results of Famous Empirical Papers part of Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics:Teaching Methods:Undergraduate Research:Examples

New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Projects:Student Research, Pedagogic Methods:Projects, Quantitative Reasoning

Race and Space part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
This assignment exposes students to racial inequalities in their own communities and helps them to identify the impact of racial segregation on quality of life. The big ideas in this assignment are racial inequality, residential segregation, and environmental justice.

Subject: Geography, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Sociology, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Quantitative Reasoning:Quantitative Literacy, Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology:Teaching with Data, Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Pedagogic Methods:Other:Active Learning