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Exploring ENSO through the El Niño/La Niña Slide Chart and Current Data part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
David Curry, Council Rock School District; Elizabeth Mills, American Meteorological Society
The past year has featured an active, warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, considered historically "strong". El Niño developed in early summer 2023, peaked in November, and persisted through ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Websites for Teaching and Learning Identification of Minerals and Rocks in Introductory Physical Geology part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Scott Brande, University of Alabama at Birmingham
An abundance of digital media that exhibit minerals and rocks are available online. However, most of these media have not been designed and produced for typical laboratory-based learning activities and objectives ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology

Tracking your Plastic Footprint part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Share-a-Thon
Ben Maas, Metropolitan State University; Katie Farnsworth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
In this homework assignment, students are asked to track their plastic usage over one week by using an Excel spreadsheet (provided) and by making a 'plastic diary. A Google Sheets version of the spreadsheet ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Biology

Open Historical Geology Lab Manual part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Share-a-thon Session
Amy Weislogel, West Virginia University
I have generated the first draft of an open access lab manual for Historical Geology that includes 12 "investigations", which are a combination of skills training, guided inquiry and independent research. ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity

Virtual Reality Strike and Dip Tool part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Natalie Bursztyn, University of Montana
The strike and dip tool is currently a web/desktop based virtual reality teaching instrument designed to practice taking strike and dip measurements and using those measurements to compile a geologic map. We have 5 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones

What drives the global climate? The relationship between Latitude, Insolation, and Temperature part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Chuck Buxbaum, Sandia Preparatory School
1st we simulate the amount of solar energy striking the surface of the Earth (insolation) using artificial light source, light meter, and protractor. Light striking meter directly (perpendicularly)=equator, meter ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change

3d model for visualizing earthquake focal mechanisms part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
Joann Stock, California Institute of Technology
Students use a transparent hemisphere and a rigid inset of two perpendicular planes. The inset represents the earthquake fault plane and auxiliary plane. The students use erasable whiteboard markers to trace the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity

Demystifying Walther's Law: Large Pickleball Models and Tabletop Challenges to Stratigraphic Column Interpretation part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday Teaching Demo Session A
Lee Schmitt, Hamline University; Kate Pound, North Hennepin Community College
Many students find the application of Walther's Law a temporal-spatial challenge. In this demonstration a set of large plastic tubes represents geographically separated locations (ultimately stratigraphic ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy

Fractional Crystallization of an M&M Magma Chamber Modified for Large Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday B
Euan Mitchell, Miami University-Oxford
This activity is a modification of the existing SERC activity "Using an M&M® Magma Chamber to Illustrate Magmatic Differentiation." The modification makes the activity more suitable for use in large ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Processes

Sunrise, Sunset: Using Personal Observations to Understand Changing Sun Patterns from an Earth Perspective part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday B
Peggy McNeal, Towson University
When students learn about Earth-Sun relationships from models of the solar system, they discover that Earth's axial tilt is the cause of variable sun angle and the seasons. However, they experience this using ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science