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Modeling Glacier Dynamics with Flubber part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Leigh Stearns, University of Kansas Main Campus
We created a hands-on activity for middle and high school students that describes glacier mass balance in a changing climate. The students make a glacier using glue, water and detergent ("flubber") and ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Modeling Sea Level: Lateral and Vertical Facies Changes part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Kate Pound, North Hennepin Community College
Participants will use a tube and bead (or ball) model to visualize and predict how changes in sea level can control the lateral and vertical facies distribution within and adjacent to a marine sedimentary basin. ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Gorge to Shore - Columbia River Gorge and the Oregon Coast to Northern California part of NAGT:Our Work:Past Projects:Teaching in the Field:Field Trip Collection
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip
Subject: Environmental Science, Biology, Ecology, Geoscience
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Battle of Lava and Life: Crater Lake National Park and Newberry Volcanic National Monument part of NAGT:Our Work:Past Projects:Teaching in the Field:Field Trip Collection
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 (509) 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Course Information, Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Field trip , Field camp
Subject: Geoscience, Biology:Plant Biology, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Variable Rivers part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Jill Baumtrog
This is a tabletop river activity. Students work in small groups to test an isolated variable; they will test either amount of water, velocity, or steepness of the riverbed to see how it affects a river's ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Sage to Sea - Columbia Plateau, across the North Cascades and to Whidbey Island WA part of NAGT:Our Work:Past Projects:Teaching in the Field:Field Trip Collection
Jennifer Thomson, Eastern Washington University
Drs. Jenny Thomson and John Buchanan, Department of Geology, 130 Science Building, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004 509 359-2286; Drs. Suzanne Schwab and Robin O'Quinn, Department of Biology, ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip , Course Information
Subject: Geoscience, Biology:Ecology, Plant Biology, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

VEPP: Working with the VEPP website in an online M.Ed. course part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Volcano Exploration Project: Pu`u `O`o:Examples
Eliza Richardson, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Students explore the VEPP website and complete a two-part problem set in which they work through the ideas presented in an EOS paper regarding eruptions at Kilauea and they try to find a deflation-inflation event ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The chemistry of sand: Not all beaches are created equal part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
, University of South Carolina-Columbia
Students use science process skills to make observations about various types of sand and make predictions about chemical reactions.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience

Snack Tectonics part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Lisa Gardiner
Students create a tasty model that illustrates plate tectonic motions. Different materials are used to simulate asthenosphere, ocean lithosphere, and continental lithosphere.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), Intermediate (3-5)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience

Mapping Potato Island part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Lisa Gardiner
In this activity, students make a topographic map to describe the shape of a potato.

Grade Level: Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience