Plastic Amniote Phylogeny part of Teaching Activities
Rowan Martindale, The University of Texas at Austin
Students use plastic animals to discuss and synthesize their knowledge about the evolutionary relationships between different vertebrates (amniotes). In small groups, students get a bag of animals (e.g., mammals, ...

The Great Clade Race - Zombie Island Edition part of Teaching Activities
Rowan Martindale, The University of Texas at Austin; David Goldsmith, Westminster College (UT)
This activity is a modification of the "Great Clade Race" (Goldsmith, 2003). This activity is great for helping students understand cladograms/phylogenies, but the original reinforces some problematic ...

Creative Discovery Project: Developing Accurate & Accessible Science Communication part of Teaching Activities
Taormina Lepore, Western Michigan University
The aim of this project is for students to gain experience in communicating scientific evidence to a public audience. For example, how is it that science journalists, museum experts, podcasters, and documentarians ...

"Reef Survivor" Board Game - University Edition part of Teaching Activities
Rowan Martindale, The University of Texas at Austin
"Reef Survivor" is an educational board game that can be used as an active learning tool in a class or lab. The educational objective is to teach players about ecology, evolution, and environmental ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

independent soil investigation project part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
Stephanie Ewing, Montana State University-Bozeman
Students demonstrate their skill in soils investigation and interpretation through independent projects undertaken in groups of one to three and presented in class using visual aids.

Soil Biogeochemical Cycles part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
Colin Robins, Claremont McKenna College
This group activity charges students with teaching their colleagues about the biogeochemical cycle of one key soil element (e.g., either C, N, S, P, Ca, or Fe). Students are given a single class period to summarize ...

Systems Geobiology Powers of 10 part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Bruce Fouke, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Systems Geobiology is the study of complex interactions arising from the interplay of biological, geological, physical, chemical and even social systems across multiple spatial (microns to thousands of kilometers) ...