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Karst Hydrogeology: A virtual field introduction using Google Earth and GIS part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth, lidar data-sourced DEM(s) and geologic maps, and GIS software (QGIS) ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Writing Assignment, Project, Field Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
Online Field Experience Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the Teaching with Online Field Experiences Exemplary collection
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Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology: A virtual field experience using Google Earth, GIS, and TAK part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth (or perhaps Google Mars or Google Moon if they so choose), lidar ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
Online Field Experience Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the Teaching with Online Field Experiences Exemplary collection
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Geology of Yosemite Valley part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Nicolas Barth, University of California-Riverside
This is a four-part module designed to be flexible in duration and student grade-level. (1) Geology of Yosemite Valley Virtual Field Trip. A 43-stop web-based Google Earth tour with embedded views, hyperlinked ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Writing Assignment, Lab Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:GIS/Mapping/Field Techniques, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
Online Field Experience Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the Teaching with Online Field Experiences Exemplary collection
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Research project to consider how projected climate change will impact a region of interest to the student part of Climate Change:Activities
Susan Kaspari, Central Washington University
Students consult the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chapters on climate projections and the primary scientific literature to write a research paper and present their results to the ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Health Sciences, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Global change modeling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Global change modeling
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Sequence-stratigraphic and mass-balance analysis of experimental stratigraphy part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Liz Hajek, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
Sequence-stratigraphic and mass-balance analysis of experimental stratigraphy. Students are charged with evaluating how basin subsidence geometry influences depositional patterns. In addition to providing practice ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Final Project for Introductory Soils Course part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
Daniel Hirmas, Texas Tech University
These assignments represent scaffolding for a self-directed final project.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory, Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Soils:Classification, Critical Zone Processes, Soil Genesis, Geoscience:Soils, Soils:Chemistry and Mineralogy, Profile Description/Morphology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Investigation of micropaleontological and paleomagnetic data part of Paleontology:Activities
Stephen Schellenberg, San Diego State University
Micropaleontological and paleomagnetic data are investigated to construct an integrated biomagnetostratigrahic age model for an Ocean Drilling Program site. Investigation emphasizes the complementary nature of ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Biostratigraphy/Biogeography
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Fossil/modern mole phylogeny part of Paleontology:Activities
Samantha Hopkins
Students code characters from fossil taxa to add to an existing morphological phylogenetic analysis of moles. This activity is original research; the fossil taxa have never before been included in a phylogenetic ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Systematics and Phylogenetic Reconstruction
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Fossil Systematic Description Project part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Samantha Hopkins, University of Oregon
Students describe an unknown vertebrate fossil (or fossils, if multiple specimens are necessary for identification). This exercise is the culmination of their lab studies in the morphology of the vertebrate ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Is the New Madrid Seismic Zone at risk for a large earthquake? part of Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online
Eliza Richardson, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this lesson we discuss the controversy regarding the extent of seismic risk in the central United States today. We learn how to estimate earthquake recurrence interval using a variety of methods. This lesson ...

Grade Level: Graduate/Professional, College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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