Let's Look Inside the Earth part of Teaching Activities
David Zelenka
Students will analyze USGS seismology data in the classroom using spreadsheets and scatter plots to look for patterns and structure in the Earth's crust. Before analyzing data, students will learn about the ...

Modeling Asperities with Spaghetti part of Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
This activity uses a physical model to facilitate students' understanding of elastic deformation of rocks and the episodic nature of motion on a fault, which leads to earthquakes and aftershocks.

Monday Morning Meeting (II): Monitoring Mount St. Helens 2004 dome growth using authentic data part of Teaching Activities
Rachel Teasdale, California State University-Chico
This jigsaw activity groups students first as volcano monitoring experts of either RSAM seismic data, earthquake locations, or GPS data, and then regroups students into interdisciplinary teams. The teams discuss ...

The Thunderstorm and Wind Gods of Japan part of Teaching Activities
Dennis Edgell, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
This activity includes a PowerPoint slide show (or PDF version) of a special topic lecture and in-class handout for students. Students listen to a lecture, then answer questions on the handout, either individually ...

SSBW - IRIS DMC Tutorial 2: GMAP, MDA, and MUSTANG Databrowser part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use the IRIS GMAP Station Browser to identify what seismic stations have data available based on a geographic region, a time ...

Tsunami Stories: Learning from Oral Histories from Around the World part of Teaching Activities
Sarah Glancy, University of Hawaii-West Oahu
In this jigsaw activity, students are placed in groups. Each group reads a different written record of an indigenous oral history about tsunamis. These indigenous stories are from around the world. To guide their ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 1: Basics part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) navigate directories and pathnames in Linux, 3) ...

Induced Seismicity: Are humans causing earthquakes? part of Teaching Activities
John Taber, EarthScope Consortium
In this lab, students investigate a hotly debated topic relevant in the political, economic, and scientific arenas. They will examine the processes involved in unconventional oil and gas resource production, ...

Lab 4: Hurricanes part of Teaching Activities
Jo Martin, Oberlin College; Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
Students use a Python script to download position, size and foretasted position and size of hurricanes into a spreadsheet from NOAA hurricane forecasts. They then display the actual and foretasted hurricane ...

Mysterious motions along the Pacific Northwest Coast part of Teaching Activities
John Taber, EarthScope Consortium
Students work in small groups to analyze and interpret Global Positioning System (GPS) and seismic data related to "mysterious ground motions" first along the northern California coastline, and then in ...