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My Special Place part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Sadredin Moosavi, RCTC
Students pick a place of significance to them (their Special Place) for analysis in this semester-long project. (A model is provided by the instructor using a place the students are not likely to have visited.)

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geography:Physical
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Lake Level Changes in the Arid West part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
Students use the modeling program STELLA to see what combinations of runoff and evaporation might have lead to Pleistocene lake level oscillations in California's Owens River system.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Computer Applications, Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Hydrology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Temperature Profiles in Permafrost part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
Students use STELLA to create a model of heatflow in permafrost to attempt to replicate the findings of Lachenbruch and Marshall (1986), who used inflections in the geothermal gradient of Alaskan permafrost to search for evidence of climatic change.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology, Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Global Phosphorus Cycle part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Kirsten Menking, Vassar College
Students create and modify a STELLA model of the global phosphorus cycle to test a number of scenarios.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Computer Applications, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Biology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Atmospheric Science:Climatology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary