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Tidepooling Field trip (online) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Katryn Wiese, City College of San Francisco
Tidepooling Field Trip online (developed for remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic); students will watch video and review photos to simulate a field experience as they explore Pillar Point tidepools (as they ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Lab Activity
Subject: Biology:Diversity:Censuses, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Knossos Ancient Lake Environment, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
The 2.73 Ga Knossos Locality is a succession of clastic and carbonate rocks outcropping along the southern margin of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. It hosts abundant, diverse and exceptionally ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Biology:Microbiology

Quiz for 8 Reasons for Complex Life on Earth part of Videos:Activities
David McConnell, North Carolina State University
This is a pdf of a quiz composed of multiple choice and True/False questions about the content of the 8 reasons for complex life on Earth video.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Activities:Video Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Lunar and Planetary Science, Biology, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology

Living Microorganisms, Shark Bay, Australia part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
3,000 years ago microbes started building up stromatolites in Shark Bay, Western Australia. These structures are the earliest signs of life on Earth, and are considered the longest continuing biological lineage. ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Biology:Microbiology

A Sustainable Southwest Japanese Garden part of Service Learning:Activities
Rhonda Spidell, Albuquerque Academy
A Sustainable Southwest Japanese Garden Project combines Earth Systems geoscience curriculum with designing and developing a sustainable Japanese garden. The garden uses water harvested from the roof of the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Service Learning
Subject: Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Sustainability, Ecosystems:Ecology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Biology:Ecology:Habitats
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Environmental Reconnaissance of a Salt Marsh part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Google Earth:Examples
Glenn Richard, SUNY at Stony Brook
This is a field and computer laboratory exercise that introduces undergraduate students, advanced high school students, and members of the general public to using Google Earth, GPS, aerial imagery, and an online ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Marine, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Ecosystems:Habitats, Ecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Timeline of the Early Earth part of Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online
Selby Cull, Bryn Mawr College
Students assemble timelines of the early evolution of Earth's atmosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere by examining data from Archean rocks and minerals.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities, Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Evolution, Geoscience:Paleontology:Evolution , Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Evolution of climate and atmosphere
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Green Landscape and Environmental Policy part of Service Learning:Activities
Stephanie Freeman, Alabama A & M University
Develop lectures that discuss environmental policy and horticulture practices in communities. Create classroom activities that incorporate green landscape design practices in residential areas. These classroom ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity, Project:Service Learning, Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity, Project
Subject: Biology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Land Use and Planning, Sustainability, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Barbour's Typologies part of Teaching Methods:Structured Academic Controversy:Examples
Philosophical overview of Evolution and Science Controversy Typologies and information taken primarily from Ian G. Barbour, When science meets religion: Enemies, strangers, or partners? Conflict - first codified ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology

Science and Religion part of Teaching Methods:Structured Academic Controversy:Examples
Claudia Khourey-Bowers, Kent State University-Stark Campus
Evolution is a fundamental theory of modern geosciences and life sciences, yet it is one of the most controversial issues within science education. The origins of the controversy have both historical and ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Evolution