Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at McCauley, WV part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Steve Whitmeyer, James Madison University
The Virtual Geologic Mapping Exercise at McCauley, WV is designed to simulate an introductory field mapping exercise. Students load a KML file in Google Earth that includes real outcrop data in the form of dots and ...

Inland water chemistry: the Nordic Lake Survey 1995 part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Tom Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway
While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we ...

Understanding weathering through museum-curated displays part of Teaching Activities
Charu Sharma, Arden University
The Natural History Museum's permanent exhibition, Restless Surface, offers an innovative setup for designing a laboratory activity for learners being introduced to Earth's surficial processes. Here, the ...

A virtual fieldtrip on the coastal geomorphology of Naxos Isl. part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Niki Evelpidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This virtual fieldtrip takes place on Naxos Isl., Cyclades, Greece. The coastal zone of Naxos is diverse, mainly due to the lithological variety and tectonics that have affected the wider region. The north, east ...

Virtual fieldtrip on the Quaternary evolution of Rhodes Isl. (Greece). part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Niki Evelpidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This virtual fieldtrip takes place on Rhodes Isl., Dodecanese, Greece. Rhodes is the largest island among the Dodecanese Archipelago in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Along with Kassos, Karpathos and Crete islands, ...

Sensitivity of Parameters in Chaotic Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Namyong Lee, Minnesota State University-Mankato
In this computer lab activity, students explore and discuss the nature of the sensitivity of parameters in a chaotic system. As a result, they understand the challenges of numerical simulation and/or parameters ...

Rebutting the Myth: Oceans' Heat Capacity part of CLEAN:CLEAN Network:Teaching Materials
This page presents a strategy for addressing a common climate misconception in the classroom, derived from The Debunking Handbook, by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky. This material was created by faculty as part ...

Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of a Cemetery: Interpretation part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Andy Bobyarchick, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
This activity is an interpretation of a ground penetrating radar (GPR) data set collected from a 19th century slave cemetery in North Carolina.

Earthquake Investigation Workshop: Shake, Rattle, & Rock part of Geodesy:Activities
Daniel Murray, University of Rhode Island
This workshop is part of an NSF-funded effort to provide professional development to STEM teachers in Rhode Island. In this activity, students will make "earthquakes" using a simple model, the earthquake ...

Risky Business: Using Games to Understand Farmer Decision-making in Sri Lanka part of Teaching Activities
Thushara Gunda, Vanderbilt University
In coupled natural and human systems (such as farming), decision-making is rarely straightforward since it is influenced by myriad factors. This in-class role playing game allows students to step into the shoes of ...