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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.
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
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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.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Sedimentary Geology
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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
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 ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology
A Quantitative Visualization of Mantle Melting part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Spatial Reasoning with GeoClick Questions:Examples
Hannah Shamloo, Oregon State University
Here is an exercise to acquaint students with pressure-temperature diagrams related to Earth's interior, teach why the mantle melts in the context of pressure and temperature, demonstrate the role water has on melting, and review the three ways to melt the mantle.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:PTt Relationships, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
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: ...
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 ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Geology
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
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
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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
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This lesson introduces the theory of mantle plumes and possible ways of finding evidence to support the theory.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geophysics:Geodynamics
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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.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
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