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Google Earth and Meandering Rivers part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
This activity uses Google Earth to introduce students to a variety of measurements related to meandering rivers by looking at how rivers around the world have changed over time.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Topographic Maps part of Career Development:Pursuing an Academic Career 2010:Teaching Activities
Lisa Walsh, University of Maryland-College Park
This geology lab is designed to teach students the basic skills needed to read, construct, and interpret topographic maps. The goal of this lab is to help students build direct connections between the topography ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Volcanism
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Using Excel to plot numerical and analytical forms of the diffusion equation part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Anne Lightbody, University of New Hampshire-Main Campus
This computer-based assignment forces students to compare and contrast integral and differential forms of the conservation of mass equation, as well as analytical and numerical approaches to solution. Students are ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Geologic Mapping Exercise part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Andrew Smith, Warrick County Soil and Water Conservation District/Crane Environmental Services llc
This exercise is designed to simulate some of the mapping aspects of a basic geological investigation. This mock geological investigation is a good wrap-up exercise because it incorporates a variety of geological ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geoscience:Hydrology, Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Structural Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Functional Morphology part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Samantha Hopkins, University of Oregon
This is a laboratory exercise has students make inferences about function from skeletal morphology. It uses data collection, quantitative reasoning, and hypothesis testing.

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Development/Growth and Form/Morphometrics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Analyzing Continuous Data - Climate Variability part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Sarah Rubinfeld, Carthage College
The exercise focuses on the analysis of continuous data as applied to climate variability. Using data freely available on the internet, students work in Excel to import their data, organize it, and analyze it using ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Observing Streams & Rivers in Google Earth part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Jennifer Piatek, Central Connecticut State University
Students are asked to observe fluvial features on both Earth and Mars in satellite images via Google Earth (as well as online panoramas) and explore processes of erosion and deposition and the relationship of ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Groundwater Flow Model part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Alex Manda, East Carolina University
In this activity, students assess a groundwater flow system using a physical groundwater model. Students take measurements, make observations and do simple calculations to evaluate the groundwater flow system. The ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Groundwater flow
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Global Fisheries Conservation Stakeholder Interview part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2011:Teaching Activities
Sarah Glaser, College of William and Mary
Students will identify a person who has an economic, ecological, academic, educational, philosophical, or cultural interest in a local fishery (stakeholder). The student will prepare a set of interview questions, ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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The Four-Winged Dinosaur part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Tasha Dunn, Colby College
This is assignment is completed in two parts: It begins in class with a showing of the Nova documentary "The Four-Winged Dinosaur." It continues as a homework assignment in which students write a short ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Biology:Evolution, Geoscience:Paleontology:Evolution
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review