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Geologic Puzzles: Morrison Formation part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
Images of faulted strata, tilted turbidites, and beach rocks bring the field into the classroom, giving students practice in doing what geoscientists do. These images are examples of geologic puzzles. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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How Fast Do Materials Weather? part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
A think-pair-share activity in which students calculate weathering rates from tombstone weathering data. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Air Quality, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Carbon Dioxide Exercise part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Teaching Materials by Randy Richardson (University of Arizona ) - Starting Point page by R.E. Teed (SERC)
Students work in groups, plotting carbon dioxide concentrations over time on overheads and estimating the rate of change over five years. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse effect, Natural causes, Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric gases, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Natural causes, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Greenhouse effect, Anthropogenic causes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks
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Describe and Interpret Images: Folded Strata part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus; Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
In class, have students make a simple sketch of an outcrop shown in a slide (or computer projection) then discuss possible interpretations. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Rivers: Short In-class Activity part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary
Images of the James River in Virginia, including one at flood stage, and of potholes, all of which can be used to have the students make observations, estimates, and interpretations. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Quicksand Questions: Short In-class Activity part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine
Student learning on quicksand is assessed during lecture with questions posed by the instructor and responses given with classroom response systems. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology

Ocean Stratigraphy Challenge part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Teaching materials by Kim Kastens (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (more info) ) - Starting Point page by R.E. Teed (SERC)
A 15-20 minute think-pair-share activity interpreting a deep-sea sediment core combining concepts from oceanography, sedimentology, and plate tectonics. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Geophysics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Starting Out With Earth History part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
Distribute a blank geologic-history timeline to pairs or small groups of students at the start of an Earth History unit or course and ask them work together to fill it out as best they can. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Mapping Plate Boundaries part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Examples
Rurik Johnson (Plymouth Middle School)
Students can discover plate boundaries by plotting different sets of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on maps. These are then stacked on the overhead projector, outlining the tectonic plates. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism, Earthquakes, Geography:Physical, Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling

Question of the Day: Ocean Waves #2 part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lectures:Question of the Day
Surfers know that the best waves from distant storms have periods of about 14 seconds. The object of this activity is to compute how long it takes the 14 second period waves to travel 6,000 km across the pacific. ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical