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Deep Sea Microbes Jigsaw part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School; Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School
This activity will help students to explore characteristics of microbes that live in the deep sea. This activity can be conducted as a jigsaw or research project, and can be used with face-to-face, remote, and ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project:Independent Research, Activities:Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Biology:Microbiology, Biogeochemistry:Microbial Properties and Metabolism, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Adopt a Microbe! - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slide playlist that will introduce students to microbes that can be found in deep sea sediments, and what roles they play in their environment. This playlist is suitable for use in remote ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity, Project
Subject: Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological, Marine Resources, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Microbial Properties and Metabolism, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Ocean Circulation Playlist part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slides playlist that will introduce fluctuations in thermohaline circulation, and potential impacts of changes in these patterns. This playlist is suitable for use in remote, hybrid, or ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Secrets of the Sediments - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slide playlist. Students will analyze data from sediments collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, California to determine whether this information can be used to study historical climate ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Are You Going to Eat That? part of EarthLabs for Educators:Fisheries
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar and Sarah L Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Students begin this investigation with an introduction to the types of ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person, Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Virtual Field Trip, Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Oceans and Coastal Resources:Fisheries, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Biological
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activities collection.
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Lab 3: Building a Reef part of EarthLabs for Educators:Corals
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives During this lab, students learn about the life cycle of corals, including how they grow ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Symbiotic Relations, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Biological, Biology:Cell Biology:Cell Processes:Metabolism:Photosynthesis, Biology:Zoology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography:Chemical, Biology:Cell Biology:Cell Processes:Metabolism:Respiration
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Lab 6: Using Data to Identify Hot Spots and Predict Bleaching Events part of EarthLabs for Educators:Corals
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar and Sarah Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Under certain environmental stresses, zooxanthellae algae will vacate ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Biological
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Coastal Erosion Online Discussion part of Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online
Sheila Roberts, Bowling Green State University-Main Campus
This assignment is designed to get students to see the application of geology to a local problem, coastal erosion along the Lake Erie shoreline. I think the strength of this assignment is that many of the students ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Coastal-zone, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activities collection.
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Lab 4: Finding Coral's Ideal Environment part of EarthLabs for Educators:Corals
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar and Sarah Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Corals, like other living animals, require a particular range of ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological, Chemical, Marine Resources, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

What is a Core? Playlist part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slides playlist that will introduce students to the basics of cores, how they are collected, and what kind of data they contain. This playlist is suitable for use in remote, hybrid, or ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics, Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics