Teaching Activities
Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.
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Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Engineering, Environmental Science, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Measure a Changing Volcano part of EarthScope ANGLE:Educational Materials:Resources
EarthScope Consortium
This hands-on demonstration illustrates how GPS can be used to measure the inflation and deflation of a volcano. Volcanoes may inflate when magma rises closer to the surface and deflate when the pressure dissipates or after an eruption.
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
Subject: Geoscience, Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Volcanism, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Melting ice cubes part of Oceanography:Activities
Mirjam Glessmer, University of Bergen
Explore how melting of ice cubes floating in water is influenced by the salinity of the water. Important oceanographic concepts like density and density driven currents are visualized and can be discussed on the ...
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Project, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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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 ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Rebutting the Myth: Consensus on the Causes of Climate Change 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 ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
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 ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity, Activities, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Hurricane Risk and Resilience for Staten Island, NY part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Coastal Hazards, Risk, and Environmental Justice:Activities
Alan Benimoff, CUNY City College
Students will analyze the hurricane hazard and associated risk for Staten island.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Extreme Weather, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Extreme weather
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Water Development: A Philosophical and Ethical Issue part of GeoEthics:Activities
Dexter Perkins, University of North Dakota-Main Campus
Dexter Perkins, University of North Dakota Summary This is a seven part module that deals with water development. The goal is to get students thinking about water development in terms of its appropriateness, and ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Investigative Case Studies, Activities, Writing Assignment, Project:Independent Research, Activities:Discussion
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
South Carolina Studies: Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard part of Rates and Time:GSA Activity Posters
John Wagner, Clemson University
Students visit Drayton Hall historic plantation near Charleston, South Carolina and are led on a field trip that starts with a discussion of documented historic changes that have affected the mansion and the surrounding property. The field trip continues with a study of Native American artifacts and ends with analysis of coastal plain deposits exposed along the Ashley River. Students use paleogeographic maps to discuss both historic and prehistoric changes to the landscape. Back in the classroom, students gather data to draw paleogeographic maps of their own school site through geologic time.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Field trip , Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Tectonics, Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Paleontology:Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction , Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Using Dendrochronology to Determine the Age and Past Environments of the Black Forest Region, Colorado, USA part of Rates and Time:GSA Activity Posters
Paul Grogger, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
The use of dendrochronology in determining the geologic history of a location. The development of an understanding how tree growth can indicate the relationships between climate, geomorphology, ecology and archeology.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Importation of field observations into the classroom
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review