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Deep Sea Microbes Jigsaw part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School; Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School
This activity will help students to explore characteristics of microbes that live in the deep sea. This activity can be conducted as a jigsaw or research project, and can be used with face-to-face, remote, and ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Independent Research, Activities:Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Biology:Microbiology, Biogeochemistry:Microbial Properties and Metabolism, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Lesson 1: Water Resources and Water Footprints (High School) part of Teaching Activities
Kai Olson-Sawyer, GRACE Communications Foundation
This lesson helps students understand why Earth is considered the "water planet." Students analyze how much of Earth's water is available for humans to use for life-sustaining purposes, and they ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Water Conservation, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water supply/water resource evaluation, Water and society, policy, and management
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Geologic time scale hiking tour group project part of Teaching Activities
Erik Haroldson, Austin Peay State University
Students work in groups to develop content for am online hiking tour which is matched to the geologic time scale. This project has been used as a semester group work project in an introductory geologic history ...

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

Dino Doom part of Teaching Activities
Sina Kirk, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This is an online learning experience that transports learners around the world to different locations related to the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event. Students will collect and analyze evidence to ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Food Webs, Geoscience:Paleontology:Extinction and Diversity , Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Paleoclimate part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Lenore Teevan, School of Innovation/Springfield City School District
This is a unit plan for project-based learning. Students will learn about paleoclimate proxies and their importance in understanding past climates. Students will focus on one region-specific aspect of paleoclimate ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Climate/Paleoclimate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Natural causes, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Paleoclimate records, History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:History and evolution of Earth's climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Mapping Plate Tectonic Boundaries part of Teaching Activities
Nathan Toke, Utah Valley University
In this classroom activity, students will work in groups to observe how patterns of topography, bathymetry, earthquake locations and depths, and the location of volcanoes vary across regions of the Earth. They will ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

GIS Analysis of Shoreline Change Using the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) part of Teaching Activities
Shelley Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) is a software extension for ArcGIS that allows for automated shoreline change calculations along the coast. The user must supply the shoreline data and the software ...

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

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

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