Youth and Law part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Activities
Carla Lippett, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Students, faculty, staff, and other community volunteers will collaborate in groups with the delivery of a Law-Related Education (LRE)program that goes beyond questions about who, what, when, and where. LRE helps ...

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 ...

Observing the Rio Grande Ecosystem to Promote Systems Thinking part of Teaching Activities
Diane Doser, University of Texas at El Paso
This series of activities uses the Rio Grande ecosystem to promote systems thinking. The concepts for the activities were developed during the Earth Educators' Rendezvous in 2015. Activities E1-E3 were ...

Stream Morphometry, Stream Flow, Stream Competence part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Alec Aitken, University of Saskatchewan
This exercise combines field activities (i.e., topographic survey of a point bar; sediment sampling with a soil auger), laboratory analysis (i.e., particle size analysis of fluvial sediments), topographic map ...

Fossil Identification part of Paleontology:Activities
Connie Soja, Colgate University, csoja@colgate.edu
This activity asks students to identify examples of types of fossils amongst the exhibits at the Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York. Students will build on their ...

A Kinesthetic Demonstration for Locating Earthquake Epicenters part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
John Keyantash, California State University-Dominguez Hills
A kinesthetic activity for students to understand the technique for locating the epicenter of an earthquake. It is performed indoors and outdoors in three lessons.

Sediment Transport part of E-STEM:Field Course:ESTEM-PD Activities
Calla Schmidt, University of San Francisco Sarah R. Hall, College of the Atlantic Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
In this exercise, students gain experience observing streams. They practice measuring stream discharge, sediment sampling, and channel surveying, and using their field data, they make predictions about bed mobility.

Mono Lake North Geomorphic Mapping part of E-STEM:Field Course:ESTEM-PD Activities
Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic; Calla Schmidt, University of San Francisco; Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
In this activity students observe Mono Lake North in the field and via remote imagery to identify fluvial geomorphic features. With these observations and data collected in the field students create annotated ...

Measuring Stream Discharge and Base Flow in the Field part of E-STEM:Field Course:ESTEM-PD Activities
Calla Schmidt, University of San Francisco Sarah R. Hall, College of the Atlantic Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
In this exercise, students will measure stream geometry and velocity in the field at multiple locations. They will use the velocity-area method to calculate discharge and use their calculations to determine if a ...

Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest Soil, Vegetation, and Bedrock Mapping part of E-STEM:Field Course:ESTEM-PD Activities
Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College; Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic; Calla Schmidt, University of San Francisco
In this half-day field exercise, students hike the Discovery Trail at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest (USDA Forest Service) to observe the relationships between geologic (rock and soil), geomorphic (aspect), ...