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Evaluating the Effects of Local Energy Resource Development part of Energy:Energy Activities
Devin Castendyk, SUNY College at Oneonta
This is a semester-long, jigsaw project for a class of 20 to 25 students that has students work in teams to explore the effects of energy resource development on local water resources, economics and society.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Project, Field Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Water Quality/Chemistry , Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy , Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Local Policy, Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Environmental Science:Policy:Energy Policy
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Brownfields part of Public Policy:Activities
Tait Chirenje, Stockton University
I split the class into small groups and assign them a list of properties that are suspected of being brownfields. Their job is to do a phase 1 (dig up background information) assessment and do a site visit to take ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity:Field laboratories, Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Local Policy, State Policy, US National Policy, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Geography:Geospatial, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making

Using Data to Teach Earth ProcessesAn Illustrated Community Discussion at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America part of Geoscience in the Field:Field Experiences:Posters
Laurie Cantwell, Montana State University-Bozeman
A virtual and traditional field trip experience that was designed to study how virtual field trips should be used in geoscience curriculum. Field trip exercises are based on a local groundwater controversy that ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making