Exploring ENSO through the El Niño/La Niña Slide Chart and Current Data part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
David Curry, Council Rock School District; Elizabeth Mills, American Meteorological Society
The past year has featured an active, warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, considered historically "strong". El Niño developed in early summer 2023, peaked in November, and persisted through ...

Websites for Teaching and Learning Identification of Minerals and Rocks in Introductory Physical Geology part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Scott Brande, University of Alabama at Birmingham
An abundance of digital media that exhibit minerals and rocks are available online. However, most of these media have not been designed and produced for typical laboratory-based learning activities and objectives ...

Tracking your Plastic Footprint part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Share-a-Thon
Ben Maas, Metropolitan State University; Katie Farnsworth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
In this homework assignment, students are asked to track their plastic usage over one week by using an Excel spreadsheet (provided) and by making a 'plastic diary. A Google Sheets version of the spreadsheet ...

Open Historical Geology Lab Manual part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Share-a-thon Session
Amy Weislogel, West Virginia University
I have generated the first draft of an open access lab manual for Historical Geology that includes 12 "investigations", which are a combination of skills training, guided inquiry and independent research. ...

Virtual Reality Strike and Dip Tool part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Natalie Bursztyn, University of Montana
The strike and dip tool is currently a web/desktop based virtual reality teaching instrument designed to practice taking strike and dip measurements and using those measurements to compile a geologic map. We have 5 ...

What drives the global climate? The relationship between Latitude, Insolation, and Temperature part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Chuck Buxbaum, Sandia Preparatory School
1st we simulate the amount of solar energy striking the surface of the Earth (insolation) using artificial light source, light meter, and protractor. Light striking meter directly (perpendicularly)=equator, meter ...

Demystifying Walther's Law: Large Pickleball Models and Tabletop Challenges to Stratigraphic Column Interpretation part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday Teaching Demo Session A
Lee Schmitt, Hamline University; Kate Pound, North Hennepin Community College
Many students find the application of Walther's Law a temporal-spatial challenge. In this demonstration a set of large plastic tubes represents geographically separated locations (ultimately stratigraphic ...

Fractional Crystallization of an M&M Magma Chamber Modified for Large Courses part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday B
Euan Mitchell, Miami University-Oxford
This activity is a modification of the existing SERC activity "Using an M&M® Magma Chamber to Illustrate Magmatic Differentiation." The modification makes the activity more suitable for use in large ...

Horses and Their Ancestors - A Geologic Time Scale Card Sort of the Cenozoic Era part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
Elisabeth Ervin-Blankenheim, Front Range Community College
The concept of geologic time can be difficult for students to grasp because of the vast scale of the Earth's 4.56-billion-year biography. This hands-on, minds-on activity highlights events during the Cenozoic ...

Paleontologists for a Day part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Teaching Demos:Tuesday
Mattie Horne, Western Washington University; Robyn Dahl, Western Washington University
This activity uses hands-on interaction with 3D-modeled fossils to guide students and educators through an exploration of critical geoscience concepts (deep time, paleoclimate, functional morphology, and ...