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    The Lifestyle Project part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Experience-Based Environmental Projects
    Karin Kirk, Montana State University/SERC and John J. Thomas, Skidmore College
    This three-week project challenges students to learn about environmental alternatives by modifying their own lifestyles. Throughout the project, students reduce their impacts on the environment by changing the way in which they live from day to day.

    Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
    Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Public policy, Geography:Human/Cultural, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid :Waste Reduction/Recycling, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Energy:Efficiency and Energy Conservation, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    Seasons part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
    David Steer, University of Akron Main Campus; , University of Akron Main Campus
    While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students manipulate a hands-on, physical model to better comprehend the Earth's position in space, the Earth's rotation axis and seasons. -

    Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
    Subject: Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science, Physics:Astronomy:Solar System
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Determining the Geologic History of Rocks from a Gravel Deposit part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Cooperative Learning:Examples
    Activity designed by Daniel Rolf Tucker, Melinda Riddler Tucker, and William Albert Rieck of the University of Southwestern Louisiana. Starting Point page developed by John McDaris.
    Gravels deposited as a result of continental glaciation are used to teach introductory-level earth-science students the application of the scientific method in a cooperative learning mode which utilizes hands-on, ...

    Grade Level: Middle (6-8), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
    On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activities collection.
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    Plate Kinematics part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
    David Steer, University of Akron Main Campus; , University of Akron Main Campus
    While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students manipulate a hands-on, physical model to better comprehend the dynamics of plate kinematics. -

    Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics

    The Grand Canyon part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
    Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
    This interdisciplinary lesson plan deals with the consequences of damming in the Grand Canyon area. The students, role-playing as scientists, write a proposal to try experimental flooding. -

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Policy:US National Policy, State Policy, Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Habitats