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    Build Your Own Earth part of Teaching Activities
    David Schultz, University of Manchester
    Build Your Own Earth is a freely available web site to explore the factors that affect Earth's climate. Climate model simulations reveal the annual distributions of 50 different quantities. An accompanying ...

    Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
    Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Understanding the Age of the Ocean Floor part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
    Mike Passow, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
    In part 1, Students will use data collected during DSDP Leg 3 to plot the age of the sea floor at distances away from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In part 2, they learn about paleomagnetic evidence and learn about the ...

    Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Problem Set
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Northwestern Indiana Landscape Unit part of Teaching Activities
    Moriah Weitman, University of Maine
    In this lesson, students will investigate the question, what is the effect of climate on glacial landscape processes? Students will be guided through understanding how climate factors, such as temperature and ...

    Grade Level: High School (9-12)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Problem Set
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks
    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

    Where's the volcanic threat? part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
    Mark Abolins, Middle Tennessee State University
    Students investigate Costa Rican volcanic hazards using (a) the amount of silica in volcanic rocks, (b) a highly-simplified geologic map and (c) a satellite image of Costa Rican night time illumination (i.e., human ...

    Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity
    Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review