Teaching Activities

Adopt a Microbe! - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slide playlist that will introduce students to microbes that can be found in deep sea sediments, and what roles they play in their environment. This playlist is suitable for use in remote ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity, Project
Subject: Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological, Marine Resources, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Microbial Properties and Metabolism, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Is that true? part of Oceanography:Activities
Steve Hovan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Ask students to research the "truth" behind statements from recent news articles and provide their opinion about what is "true". These assignments can be done as often as the instructor feels ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Atmospheric Science:Meteorology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Assessing the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Reef Building Corals part of Teaching Activities
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
This activity introduces students to an actual data set that explores the impacts of ocean acidification on tropical coral reef ecosystems. Students are first given a scenario for a field site in the Caribbean and ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Deep Sea Microbes Playlist part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slide playlist that will introduce students to microbes that can be found in deep sea sediments, and what roles they play in their environment. This playlist is suitable for use in remote, ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Benthic, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europe part of Visualization:Examples
Warren Tomkiewicz, Plymouth State University
Student groups are presented a problem scenario to research and make recommendations, predictions, and a resolution of the problem based on data and visualizations.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Project:Investigative Case Studies
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks, Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Exploring Ocean Resources in Our Everyday Lives part of Oceanography:Activities
Janelle Sikorski, Miami University-Oxford
Students are asked to keep a food diary for 24 hours and then asked to analyze the products they consumed in terms of the ocean resources needed to make and deliver that product. This assignment was designed to ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Writing A Book Synopsis for Oceanography part of Oceanography:Activities
Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Students read popular science books and write a synopsis of the book, linking the topic(s) covered in the book with those covered in class. This activity is designed for a large geoscience lecture course to aid ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Hurricane Investigation part of Hurricanes-Climate Change Connection:Activities
Melinda Huff, Northeastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mech Coll
This is a simple homework assignment that will reinforce topics discussed in lecture as well as enabling students to search and analyze information on the web.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric circulation, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science, Oceanography:Physical , Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather:Hurricanes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Tsunami assignment part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Klaus Neumann, Ball State University
Students read reports about potential sources for tsunamis on the US east coast and compare them with previously discussed dangers for the west cost.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Coastal Hazards:Tsunami, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Human Impacts on Sharks: Developing an Essay Through Peer-Review on a Discussion Board part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Peer Review:Examples
Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine
Through a discussion board, students comment and respond to paper topics on the human impacts on sharks. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Assessments:Peer Assessment, Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review