Teaching Activities

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

Google Earth Investigations of Folded and Faulted Landforms part of Geodesy:Activities
Hillary Hamann, University of Denver
This activity utilizes Google Earth (the free downloadable version) to investigate folded and faulted landscapes and to review crustal deformation processes and associated landform features.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity, Computer Applications
Subject: Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Reflectance Spectra part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Katherine McCarville, Upper Iowa University
Katherine McCarville, Upper Iowa University Summary Students use the ALTA reflectance spectrometer to understand concepts in active vs. passive remote sensing, reflectance, and the creation and relevance of ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geography:Geospatial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Calculating surface temperature using Landsat thermal imagery part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Abduwasit Ghulam, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Center for Environmental Sciences, Saint Louis University, St Louis, MO 63103 Summary In this lab, students are walked through a hands-on exercise ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Activities, Project
Subject: Geography:Geospatial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Exercise 6: Cartography part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Barbara and David Tewksbury, Hamilton College Summary In the first part of the exercise, students examine a variety of ArcMaps to work out what data sets and techniques were used and to develop a list of the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geography:Geospatial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Tutorials for Introducing ArcGIS into Introductory Geoscience Courses part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Barb Tewksbury, Hamilton College
Three sequential modular exercises introduce geoscience students to the power of GIS and give them experience with the kinds of GIS raster image analysis tasks commonly used by geoscientists. You might also be ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geography:Geospatial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Calculation of Stream Discharge part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Bruce Rueger, Colby College
This lab is a field oriented exercise that visits two sites on the same stream to calculate stream discharge. It illustrates the influences of stream cross-sectional area on discharge and the resistance of bedrock ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Geography:Geospatial, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Mapping Bedrock Outcrops with Stride & Compass and a GPS Unit in a soil and forest mantled landscape part of Geoscience in the Field:Activities
Les Hasbargen, SUNY College at Oneonta
Students take a two mile hike along a trail in a forest and map bedrock exposures. The project takes place over a few days. Students will need 2-3 hours to collect the data in the field, and another 2-3 hours to ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Geography:Geospatial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Visible, IR, and Water vapor Satellite Images of an Extratropical Cyclone part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Dorothea Ivanova, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott
Dorothea Ivanova, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Summary The object of this assignment is to find online and interpret imagery associated with an extratropical cyclone system. Context Type and level of ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities
Subject: Geography:Geospatial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Image Classification part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with GIS:Examples
Brian Welch, Saint Olaf College
An exercise to use a simple image analysis program to classify land surface types seen in satellite imagery in order to analyze changes in landscape development over time. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology, Geography:Human/Cultural, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geography:Geospatial, Physical, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Biology:Ecology
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review