Teaching Activities

Landslide Mapping and Analysis part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Alison Duvall, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
The purpose of this module is to familiarize students to empirical methods of mass movement hazard analysis, to provide them training in mapping and analyzing inventories of landslides from lidar datasets, and to ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Using StraboSpot for Field Sedimentology & Stratigraphy part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Casey J. Duncan, New Mexico State University
This module uses StraboSpot (free mobile app for iOS and Android devices and web API, backend database) and two Utah datasets to facilitate teaching field methods related to sedimentology and stratigraphy. The data ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity, Field Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Stratigraphy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Geologic Mapping on Mars part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
J. Brian Balta, Texas A & M University
This activity consists of several mapping components exploring the JMARS software and completing detailed geologic maps and cross sections on Mars.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science:Mars:Sedimentary Processes, Volcanology/Petrology, Images/Maps/Visualizations
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Structure from Motion for Analysis of River Characteristics part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado; Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
In this assignment, students conduct a Structure from Motion (SfM) survey of the Sheep Draw field site along the Poudre River near Greely, CO. The end product is a point cloud used in additional assignments to ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity, Lab Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The Earth System during Interglacials part of Climate Change:Activities
Max Berkelhammer, University of Illinois at Chicago
Students use a simplified climate model to understand how Earth's climate responds to greenhouse gas and orbital forcing with an emphasis on the last interglacial period. Students use the changes in climate to ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, History and evolution of Earth's climate
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Monitoring Lead in an Urban Community Garden part of Service Learning:Activities
Jennifer Latimer, Indiana State University
Each spring, students in a 300-level field course collect samples from urban community gardens to monitor soil lead concentrations.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Service Learning
Subject: Environmental Science, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geochemistry, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Soils
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Natural Hazards & Climate Change Risks part of Service Learning:Activities
Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
× Students characterize how climate change impacts natural hazards and pose research-based solutions to the county Emergency Management Agency. Presentations require the use of local data, created figures, ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Service Learning
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Is that true? part of Oceanography:Activities
Steve Hovan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Ask students to research the "truth" behind statements from recent news articles and provide their opinion about what is "true". These assignments can be done as often as the instructor feels ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Effectively engaging with climate skeptics part of Oceanography:Activities
Jessica Kleiss, Lewis & Clark College
One of my persistent challenges as a climate scientist involves friendly conversations with my extended (climate skeptic) family over the Thanksgiving table, as I try to inform and guide their perceptions about ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Writing Assignment, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Global Patterns part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Federica Raia, The City College of New York
Based on my research on how best to enhance students' understanding of complex systems, I utilize various activities to support pattern recognition, a fundamental skill to understanding complex systems ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Project, Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary