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Energy Gallery Walk part of Energy:Energy Activities
Katharine Ellis, Front Range Community College
This is a cooperative learning activity using the Gallery Walk Strategy (strategy from the Starting Point Gallery Walk web pages) to enrich student understanding of the complex nature of solving our nation's ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Renewable & Alternative Energy, Efficiency and Energy Conservation
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Teaching radioactive decay & radiometric dating: an analog activity based on fluid dynamics part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Erika Grundstrom, Vanderbilt University
Radiometric dating/geochronology is a difficult concept for students. Using the (rather messy) medium of shampoo, students watch it flow through holes of different sizes, determine the exponential decay equation, ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The Cosmic Calendar part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Erika Grundstrom, Vanderbilt University
In this activity, one takes ALL of time, from the beginning of time (i.e., the Big Bang) all the way up to today, but one compresses it into one year. One can do this for all levels of students depending on how ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Upper (15-16), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set, Discussion, Lab Activity, Project, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Personal Timeline part of Rates and Time:Teaching Activities
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
Students start this worksheet by listing the most important events in their own lives, plotting them on a timeline, and then doing the same with Earth history events. Usually, their personal timelines will resemble ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Geoscience:Paleontology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Carbon Footprint Exercise part of Climate Change:Activities
Cinzia Cervato, Iowa State University
We designed a three-step assignment for students in introductory geoscience that asks them to calculate their carbon footprint during one specific week. The goal of the assignment is to increase student awareness ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Public policy
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Course Information Survey part of Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online
Donald Reed, San Jose State University
This activity is a brief quiz to be completed at beginning of course that provides information to instructor about the internet access and computer resources of each student as well as assesses whether student has ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Living with Volcanoes: An Introduction to Geoarchaeology part of Environmental Geology:Activities
Alison Jolley (AJ), University of Waikato
This activity introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of geoarchaeology through a case study of the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. It combines short lectures with questions requiring analyses of a ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Historical Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Sociology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Marine Oxygen Isotopes and Changes in Global Ice Volume part of Climate Change:Activities
Ben Laabs, North Dakota State University-Main Campus
Students explore marine oxygen-isotope data from cores collected by the Ocean Drilling Program. The activity gives students access to real paleoclimate data, develops their skills in organizing and graphing data, ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Stable Isotopes, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Impacts of El Nino and La Nina part of Oceanography:Activities
Sue Clement, Kent State University-Main Campus
In this exercise, students explore NOAA and the Climate Data Center websites that provide information about El Niño. The students are then asked interpret a series of maps to describe the key changes in climate ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Virtual Rock Lab part of Introductory Courses:Activities
clark giboney, UNAVCO
Students use a website to identify rocks based on their properties.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review