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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

Seasonal variation in light, mixing depth and primary productivity in temperate northern hemisphere waters part of Oceanography:Activities
Lauren Sahl, Maine Maritime Academy
In this exercise students work with light, temperature, and phytoplankton biomass proxy (chlorophyll a concentration) data to; Become more skilled in reading and interpreting semi log graphs, temperature profiles, ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Oceanography:Biological, Chemical, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Water Column, Biology, Ecology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Biology:Ecology:Habitats
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Teaching the nitrogen cycle and human health interactions part of Geology and Human Health:Workshop 04:Activities
Margaret Townsend, University of Kansas Main Campus
This activity uses objects, pictures, and text in a matching game to define the nitrogen cycle and the environmental and human health impacts of nitrogen. The game can be used to associate useful and detrimental ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Soils, Hydrology:Ground Water:Water quality/chemistry , Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Organic and Biochemistry, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Waste:Toxic and Hazardous Wastes:Bio/Medical Wastes, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Biogeochemical cycling
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Review for interdisiplinary science course (stream ecology, watersheds) part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College
This is a large-scale participatory activity used to prompt students to review what they have learned and to think actively and cooperatively about the connections between the systems we have discussed prior to the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Ground Water, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Ecosystems
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Watershed Management part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Bruce Herbert, Texas A & M University
In this project, I ask students to use analogous reasoning to support the development of an accurate and rich conceptual model about a specific environmental issue using evidence collected from two watershed ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Ecosystems, Biology:Ecology, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

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

Protection of Wolves: Biological Ecosystems and Human Interests part of Teaching Methods:Structured Academic Controversy:Examples
Claudia Khourey-Bowers, Kent State University-Stark Campus
After being extirpated from Yellowstone Park and other western habitats in the 1930s, gray wolves were reintroduced during the 1980s. The recovery effort has been so successful that gray wolves may no longer be ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biodiversity, Ecology, Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Policy:US National Policy

Ocean Predator/Prey Populations part of Complex Systems:AGU Modeling Workshop 2010:Activity Ideas
Susan Kelly Topic: Population change Course type: Introductory undergraduate course Description Modeling impact of change in food web Learning Goals or Outcomes Students will see how changes on one trophic level ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Food Webs

Using Data to Teach Earth ProcessesAn Illustrated Community Discussion at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America part of Data, Simulations and Models:Workshop 03:Activities
Kara Salazar, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
Kara Salazar Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Center for Earth and Environmental Science - The Lilly ARBOR Project is an urban riparian restoration project designed for use as an outdoor ...

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), Primary (K-2), General Public, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Restoration/Reclamation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Water Quality/Chemistry