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Understanding Geologic Maps part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Cara Burberry, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Exercise in deconstructing a geologic map & writing a geologic history of the area.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Historical Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Groundwater Flow Model part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Alex Manda, East Carolina University
In this activity, students assess a groundwater flow system using a physical groundwater model. Students take measurements, make observations and do simple calculations to evaluate the groundwater flow system. The ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Groundwater flow
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The Four-Winged Dinosaur part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Tasha Dunn, Colby College
This is assignment is completed in two parts: It begins in class with a showing of the Nova documentary "The Four-Winged Dinosaur." It continues as a homework assignment in which students write a short ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Biology:Evolution, Geoscience:Paleontology:Evolution
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Abrupt climate change, greenhouse gases, and the bipolar see-saw part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Kathleen Johnson, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, students work with paleoclimate proxy data (d18O, CH4, CO2)from the Byrd and GISP2 ice cores. Students prepare a graph of paleoclimate data and use the graph to answer several questions about the ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Introduction to Moment Magnitude part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
John Jasbinsek, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
This activity reviews body-wave magnitude, and takes a closer look at its merits. Then moment magnitude is defined and contrasted with body-wave magnitude. The 2004 Parkfield earthquake is used to illustrate moment ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Secretary of Energy part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Samantha Hansen, The University of Alabama
This activity was used in my GEO 101: The Dynamic Earth course to engage the students and get them thinking about different energy resources. It asks them to consider our country's energy needs in the future ...

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

Introduction to Hydrology Research Paper part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
James Ward, Angelo State University
Research paper with exact formatting designed to give student practice in literature review and scientific publication. This is for my Junior level Introduction to Hydrology course.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Writing annotations of five research articles throughout the semester part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Scott Clark, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Pre-service elementary school teachers have a critical need to be aware of the importance of scientific literacy and the variety of Earth-science related alternative conceptions (AKA misconceptions) that their ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science, Geography, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Changes along Fountain Creek, Colorado (1989-2006) part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
William Ouimet, University of Connecticut
This assignment examines a rapidly changing alluvial river in Colorado. Students produce a map depicting these changes through the use of repeat air photos and then quantify the rates of change through time. Along ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Lab Activity, Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Hydrology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Five Themes Group Homework Assignment part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Lashale Pugh, Youngstown State University
Students are asked to work in groups of five. Each group chooses a country to write about, using the five themes of Geography.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review