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Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized Board Game part of Teaching Activities
Rowan Martindale, The University of Texas at Austin
Incorporating games in teaching can help students retain material and become innovative problem solvers through engagement and enjoyment. Our board game, "Taphonomy: Dead and Fossilized" can be used as an ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Preservation and Taphonomy
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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OGGM-Edu Glaciology Lab 1: What Makes a Glacier? part of Teaching Activities
Lizz Ultee, Middlebury College
This is a three-part class or lab activity that challenges students to define what a glacier is, how it differs from other parts of the cryosphere (such as sea ice), and what kinds of glaciers there are in the ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change, Climate Change:Global change modeling
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Modeling Mono Lake's Water Balance part of Teaching Activities
Phil Resor, Wesleyan University; Gregory Hancock, College of William and Mary
In this activity students build a hydrologic model of Mono Lake in MATLAB and then use the model to evaluate the California State Water Board's 1994 decision regulating diversions from the watershed and ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Topographic differencing: Earthquake along the Wasatch fault part of Teaching Activities
Chelsea Scott, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
After a big earthquake happens people ask, 'Where did the earthquake occur? How big was it? What type of fault was activated?' We designed an undergraduate laboratory exercise in which students learn how ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
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Visualizing Systems part of Teaching Activities
Lisa Gilbert, Cabrillo College
This activity introduces students to systems thinking visualization with a free online tool, Loopy.

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science
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Modeling Rare Plant Distributions Using ArcGIS part of Teaching Activities
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, students work with rare plant occurrence data from the Nature Reserve of Orange County, California to create species distribution maps in ArcGIS. Students are given shapefiles of species ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Geography:Geospatial, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Creating a Partial Pressure Diagram for the Cu-CO2-O2-H2O System part of Teaching Activities
Terri Woods, East Carolina University
Students will be guided through the procedure for creating a partial-pressure diagram in the low-temperature system Cu-CO2-O2-H2O system for the minerals cuprite, tenorite, native copper, azurite, and malachite. ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Phase Equilibria/Thermodynamics
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Construction of a Triangular Stability Diagram part of Teaching Activities
Terri Woods, East Carolina University
An interactive powerpoint presentation walks students step-by-step through the process of generating a triangular diagram for the system K2O-Al2O3-SiO2. A Word document provides the thermodynamic data and ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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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

Construction of a Korjinski Diagram part of Teaching Activities
Terri Woods, East Carolina University
An interactive powerpoint presentation walks students step-by-step through the process of generating a Korjinski diagram for the system K20-Al2O3-SiO2. Students will use the triangular diagram from the previous ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibria
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