The Rock Cycle: building descriptive skills part of Teaching Activities
Alyssa Abbey, California State University-Long Beach
The goal of this activity is to have students become comfortable and adept at making observations about differences in rocks, describing those differences in a useful and meaningful way, and making connections with ...

Urban Wildlife Garden as a Pedagogical Tool for Environmental Studies part of Teaching Activities
Charu Sharma, Arden University
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Garden showcasing its eight habitats is used as a primary source for baseline environmental data collection, analysis and discussion. Basic concepts of biodiversity, ...

Soils Mapping part of Teaching Activities
Jinny Sisson, University of Houston-University Park
Students collect a soil near their house or other location, analyze it using grain size, plot the locations and collectively create a soils map of campus or larger area. This exercise can be tailored for many ...

Arctic Coastal Oceanography part of Teaching Activities
Maddie Smith, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
This unit combines classroom sessions with an in-person field day to teach fundamentals of Arctic Coastal Oceanography. The approach integrates sensor preparation and deployment with scientific concepts and ...

Trees From Thin Air part of Teaching Activities
Alyssa Abbey, California State University-Long Beach
The exercise presented here is one of a suite of activities for learners of all ages that has been developed from the standard allometric equations for the above-ground biomass of trees (Chave et. al., 2005; ...