Teaching Activities

Understanding Doppler radar radial velocity fields part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
Aryeh Drager, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
This activity is designed to help students learn how to interpret Doppler radial velocity radar images with meteorological applications, as well as giving students a chance to practice their spatial skills.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

GeoClick: Sedimentary Environments part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
Katherine Ryker, University of South Carolina-Columbia
Students apply their understanding of sedimentary rocks and sediment characteristics to identify where rocks may be forming using a simplified cross-section of a landscape from mountain to sea.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Sedimentary Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Predicting Regional Air Pressure Condition part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
Susan Meabh Kelly, Connecticut State Department of Education

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Correlation part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
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 this diagram and told, "Fossils ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology

The Algae-in-a-Bottle Experiment: A High-Impact Learning Activity part of Pedagogy in Action:Activities
William Chamberlin, Fullerton College
The Algae-in-a-Bottle Experiment provides an engaging and flexible high-impact teaching tool for helping students to know, understand, and apply a number of concepts related to the biology and ecology of aquatic plants and their environments.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Biology:Biogeochemistry:Carbon Cycling, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Biology:Ecology:Food Webs, Biology:Cell Biology:Cell Processes:Metabolism:Photosynthesis, Biology:Plant Biology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Magnetic Reversals at Divergent Plate Boundaries part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
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 this diagram and given the prompt: ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Geology

Subduction Zone part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
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 this diagram and instructed to ...

The Pet Rock Project - Developing Professional Communication in a Petrology Course part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Professional Communications Projects:Examples
Darrell Henry, Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State University

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Geochemistry, Metamorphic Rocks, Igneous Rocks, Igneous Associations and Tectonic Settings, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Hotspot Lesson: Mantle Plumes part of ERESE:ERESE Activities
Jamie A. Russell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Related Links Relative Dating Hotspot Theory and Plate Velocities Samoan Hotspot Final Hotspot Project View Lesson Plan at ERESE ...
This lesson introduces the theory of mantle plumes and possible ways of finding evidence to support the theory.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geophysics:Geodynamics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Glacier (?) National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
Judy McIlrath, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students examine data about the disappearing glaciers in the park; after calculating percentage change in the number of glaciers from 1850 to 2000, they interpolate to estimate when Grinnell glacier will be gone.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review