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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

Soil Ecology Lab part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
Becky Ball, Arizona State University at the West Campus
Students collect soil samples from places of interest around campus and run a series of basic soil analyses to make conclusions about how soil fertility relates to the biological community and human management.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Soils:Critical Zone Processes, Chemistry and Mineralogy, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Geoscience:Soils, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Nutrient Limitation and Cycling, Environmental Science, Ecosystems, Sustainability, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Surface Chemistry, Biology:Biogeochemistry
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Candy Phylogeny part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Lisa Whitenack, Allegheny College
Students learn how make phylogenetic trees from morphological data using a variety of candy. Techniques and concepts learned include outgroup analysis, making a character matrix, coding characters, parsimony, ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology
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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Calcium (Ca) availability to ecosystems: Weathering of limestone, apatite, and Ca-plagioclase (anorthite) part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
Abir Biswas, The Evergreen State College
Sequence of laboratory activities to develop familiarity with geochemistry bench laboratory experimental methods; demonstration of different weathering rates of different Ca-bearing minerals; connection between ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Soils:Chemistry and Mineralogy, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Geochemistry:Reaction Kinetics/Rates, Geoscience:Soils, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Nutrient Limitation and Cycling, Environmental Science, Ecosystems, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Aqueous Solutions, Biology:Biogeochemistry
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Soils —Field Characterization, Collection, and Laboratory Analysis part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
Abir Biswas, The Evergreen State College
Field characterization of soil profiles in coniferous and deciduous settings; sample collection of soils from different horizons; laboratory analysis of soil moisture, soil organic carbon (by loss on ignition), and ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Soils:Soil Genesis, Profile Description/Morphology, Critical Zone Processes, Geoscience:Soils, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Environmental Science, Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Soils:Classification, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Nutrient Limitation and Cycling
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Atmospheric Carbon: Can We Offset the Increase? part of Oceanography:Activities
Joceline Boucher, Maine Maritime Academy
This activity lets students discover first hand how the big issues in climate change -- here, the increase in atmospheric CO2 and the utility of carbon offsets -- can be understood through measurement, application ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Biogeochemistry:Carbon Cycling, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse effect, Greenhouse gas emissions, Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Elena Bray Speth, Saint Louis University-Main Campus
This activity is intended to guide students to apply principles of evolution by natural selection to explain a real world biological phenomenon (the evolution of bacteria populations resistant to common ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Microbiology, Evolution
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Tree Ring Data and Environmental Variables part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Erica Bigio, The University of Arizona
This activity uses Bristlecone pine tree-ring data to understand how tree growth is related to environmental variables. It can be used to test hypotheses about how tree growth has been increasing with increasing ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

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
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