Teaching Activities
Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.
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Ocean currents and overflows part of Teaching Activities
Stefanie Semper, University of Bergen
We are researchers and teachers in physical oceanography. Here we provide a lesson plan including materials, to explore ocean currents and specifically "underwater waterfalls", i.e., overflows in the ...
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Oceanography
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Getting started with Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetry method uses overlapping images to create a 3D point cloud of an object or landscape. It can be applied to everything from fault scarps to landslides to topography. This ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
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Working with Point Clouds in CloudCompare and Classifying with CANUPO part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
This exercise will walk you through 1) basic operations and use in CloudCompare, and 2) use of an Open-Source plugin in CloudCompare called CANUPO (http://nicolas.brodu.net/en/recherche/canupo/) that allows for ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
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Erosion in a River part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown these diagrams and instructed to ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Geoscience
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Explore Real Data from an Ice Core part of Teaching Activities
Jason Cervenec, Ohio State University-Main Campus; Stacy Porter, Wittenberg University
Ice core data allow students to explore a number of patterns while learning that researchers need to gather and interpret evidence to understand Earth's past. Students will explore core data collected in ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography
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Discover Plate Tectonics part of Guided Inquiry Introductory Geology Labs:Activities
Angela Daneshmand, Santiago Canyon College
This is a student-centered activity for a synchronous online course where students access google slides to complete during a video conferencing session (eg. Zoom) in break out rooms. Students will be introduced to ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology
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Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology: A virtual field experience using Google Earth, GIS, and TAK part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth (or perhaps Google Mars or Google Moon if they so choose), lidar ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water
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Construction of a Triangular Stability Diagram part of Teaching Activities
Terri Woods, East Carolina University
An interactive powerpoint presentation walks students step-by-step through the process of generating a triangular diagram for the system K2O-Al2O3-SiO2. A Word document provides the thermodynamic data and ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
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Unit 3: Codorus Creek Case Study: Measuring and Interpreting Seismic Refraction Data part of Measuring Depth to Bedrock Using Seismic Refraction
Using seismic refraction data in a case study for urban renewal. Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming, aparseki@uwyo.edu
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This unit presents an applied case study example and the associated concepts related to designing a seismic survey and analyzing the data. It discusses parts of the instrument and presents practical experience ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Real-world Examples
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods:Seismic refraction, Environmental Science, Physics:Oscillations & Waves:Wave Motion, Physics:Other Sciences:Environmental Science
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Teleconnections part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Kaitlin Farrell, University of Georgia; Cayelan Carey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
Ecosystems can be influenced by teleconnections, in which meteorological, societal, and/or ecological phenomenon link remote regions via cause and effect relationships. Because it is difficult to predict how ...
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science
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