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Snow Avalanches part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Alessandro Zanazzi
In this activity, students have to select the most convenient backcountry ski route to climb a peak located near Brighton ski resort (Utah). In order to select the route, they have to evaluate the information ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Where Does Stream Water Come From? part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Christa Torrens, University of Colorado at Boulder
In this module, students explore various sources of stream water through reading, discussion, and data analysis in R. The module focuses on streams from four distinct LTER sites: an Antarctic desert stream, an Arizona desert stream, an Arctic tundra stream, and a temperate forest stream in New England.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Real-world Examples, Datasets and Tools, Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Hydrology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geography:Physical, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The Seismic Gap Hypothesis part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Walter Szeliga, Central Washington University
Using actual earthquake data from the circum-Pacific region, students make predictions about where earthquakes should occur in the immediate future. Data are provided in the form of global earthquake locations over ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Determining Shallow Earth Structure part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Tammy Bravo, EarthScope Consortium
This activity is intended to extend students' learning of fundamental physics concepts (e.g. reflection, refraction and transmission of energy) through a real-world application.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Inland water chemistry: the Nordic Lake Survey 1995 part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Tom Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway
While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Chemistry, Geoscience, Biology, Environmental Science, Computer Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Seawater Mining part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Mathieu Richaud, California State University-Fresno
Students use a Google Sheets filled with elemental seawater composition names and data. One of the goals is to find the answer to the question "How many pounds of gold are present in 1 cubic mile of ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience

Examining changes in Waterfowl Diversity and Climate Change part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Jon Sweetman, North Dakota State University-Main Campus
Students will calculate and compare long-term trends in regional diversity based on online annual survey data of breeding waterfowl population data (available from the USFWS). They will make predictions on how ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science, Biology