Introduction to hydrologic model calibration part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Matin Rahnamay Naeini, University of California-Irvine
In this exercise, we introduce the concept of model calibration for rainfall-runoff models. We specifically employ a synthetic precipitation data as input to the hydrologic model to generate synthetic runoff. The ...

Slicing Cylinders part of Spatial Thinking Workbook:Teaching Activities
Carol Ormand Ph.D., Carleton College
Students identify and draw slices through cylinders and partial cylinders, and use gestures to visualize slicing planes. This practice with visualizing slices through idealized geometric shapes is preparation for visualizing slices through geological features.

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 1: Interacting with an Online Jupyter Notebook part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use a Jupyter notebook interface to interact with code created by someone else, 3) edit code ...

A Daily Dose of MATLAB for College Freshmen part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Frederik J Simons, Princeton University
Teaching first-year college students, with my colleague Adam Maloof, as part of a research-oriented "Freshman Seminar" involves teaching students MATLAB -- from scratch to proficiency. Rather than sharing ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 2: Next Steps part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) redirect information to or from files, 3) use ...

Geologic Time Scale CogSketch geoscience worksheet part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Bridget Garnier
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. This worksheet has students build the geologic time scale by adding events on increasing larger scales, from 1 million years to 4.56 billion ...

Using functions in an introductory geoscience course part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Jennifer Wenner, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
A template and two exercises (CO2 and population growth) designed to increase the graphical literacy of students in introductory geoscience and mathematics courses.

Problems for Calculus and Precalculus part of SISL:2012 Sustainability in Math Workshop:Activities
Deb Hughes Hallett, The University of Arizona
Problems on Energy and Climate for Students in Calculus I and II

Big Money: Intuition about big numbers using the national debt (and other governmental excess) part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Jerry Johnson (compiled by Jennifer Wenner, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
an exercise designed to help students get their brains around big numbers using real world examples

How Large is a Ton of Rock? part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Len Vacher—University of South Florida, Tampa FL 33620 This activity was developed for Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum. National Science Foundation, DUE 0442629.
PowerPoint module leading students through creation and manipulation of spreadsheets to calculate the edge length of cubes and diameter of spheres of various rocks weighing a ton.