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Unit 4: Using SoilWebTMto Investigate the Soil Beneath You part of A Growing Concern
Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
Students will use SoilWeb™, a smartphone and web application that pulls detailed soil survey data from both the 1:24,0000 Soil Survey Geographic database (SSURGO) and the 1:250,000 scale State Soil Geographic ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Problem Set, Datasets and Tools:Tools, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils:Soils, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Unit 3: Natural and Agricultural Erosion Rates part of A Growing Concern
Sarah Fortner, Carleton College; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
Students will identify their perceptions of erosion by examining images of mountain and agricultural landscapes and discussing which environment is more erosive. They will use geospatial figures to compare erosion ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share, Activities:Problem Set, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geoscience:Soils, Environmental Science:Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils:Soils, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Unit 5: Predicting the Effects of Climate Change on Soil Loss part of A Growing Concern
Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
Students will investigate how the factors that influence erosion work together to produce an overall erosion rate. In agricultural areas, these factors are rainfall-runoff erosivity, soil erodibility, slope ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity:Jigsaw, Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils:Soils, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Soils and Agriculture, Geoscience:Soils
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Slices Through 3D Objects part of Spatial Thinking Workbook:Teaching Activities
Carol Ormand Ph.D., Carleton College
Students identify and draw slices through an ice cream cone, a pyramid, and a beverage six-pack.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Coastal Processes CogSketch geoscience worksheet part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Bridget Garnier
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. Students understand sediment transport and beach erosion by using wave front geometries to sketch particle pathways and determine sediment ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Coastal-zone, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments:Marginal-Marine
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Virtual Lab: "Big Nine" Silicates in Thin Section part of Teaching Activities
Catherine Macris, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis
This virtual lab activity uses Virtual Microscope to help students create their own ranked lists of diagnostic properties for the "Big Nine" silicate minerals/groups, which includes quartz, muscovite, ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Mineralogy:Optical Mineralogy, Crystallography
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

SSBW - Python Tutorial 3: Pandas and an Earthquake Cross-Section part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using the basic syntax of Python commands, 2) use the functionality of the Pandas module to create DataFrames to store data, ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology

SIGkit (Software for Introductory Geophysics toolkit) for modelling and visualization of data part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Charly Bank, University of Toronto
Predicting what geophysical data may look like and making basic inferences from data are critical learning outcomes of introductory geophysics courses whether they happen in a classroom or in a field setting. This ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Paleontology:Extinction and Diversity , Paleoecology , Biostratigraphy/Biogeography , Online Resources/Computer Software , Evolution , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

SSBW - Python Tutorial 6: ObsPy and Cross Correlation part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use the ObsPy library to load, plot, and analyze data or metadata 3) use ObsPy to create ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology

SSBW - Python Tutorial 1: Introduction and Aftershock Rates part of Teaching Activities
Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) are introduced to the basic syntax of Python command line and scripts, 2) perform calculations regarding earthquake energy and time ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology