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Sedimentation Provenance Problem Set part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Man-Yin Tsang, University of Toronto
Introduce students the concept of Sedimentation Provenance and how it can be studied from rock samples. Teach students to visualize mineral distributions in a basin and draw ternary QFR (quartz-feldspar-rock ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology, Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Provenance, Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments
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Erosion in a River part of GET Spatial Learning:Teaching Activities
Nicole LaDue, Northern Illinois University
× Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding. Students are shown these diagrams and instructed to ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Clicker Question
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Geoscience
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Rocking Through the Rock Cycle part of K-8 Geo Teacher Preparation:Workshop 2016:Activities
Mary Mutrux, Missouri State University
The students will participate as matter traveling through the rock cycle while drawing cards from 4 rock matter stations (magma, igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic). Afterwards, the student will demonstrate their path using a laser pointer in a projected large the rock cycle diagram.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Metamorphic Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks, Metamorphic Processes, Igneous Processes
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Quantifying transport of sediment off of continental shelves part of Teaching Activities
Lauren Sahl, Maine Maritime Academy
This activity requires students to manipulate oceanographic data to derive new variables, make plots, interpret plots and make back-of-the-envelope calculations to weigh the importance of eddies in shelf edge ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition
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Learning About Marine Sediments Using Real Data part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Kristen St. John, James Madison University
This exercise set explores marine sediments using real core photos and composition data from the scientific ocean drilling programs DSDP, ODP, and IODP in an inquiry-based approach.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Depositional environments:Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics
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Fluvial and Alluvial Sedimentology Incorporating Google Earth part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Elizabeth Cassel, University of Idaho
A lab activity for an undergraduate sedimentary geology course focused on fluvial and alluvial sedimentology, incorporating Google Earth.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Maps, Computer Applications, Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes
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The Desktop Delta part of Sedimentary Geology:Using Physical Models
Dr. Thomas Hickson (University of St. Thomas) and Karen Campbell (National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics) developed a small, two-dimensional deltaic sedimentation model for the Teaching Sedimentary Geology ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Virtual Field Trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Marginal-Marine, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Coastal-zone, Fluvial, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy:Sequence Stratigraphy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Modeling/Physical Experiments
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Digitization and Volumetric Analysis of Sediment Transport in a Simplistic Flume part of GIS and Remote Sensing:Activities2
Robin Mattheus, Hamilton College
C. Robin Mattheus, Hamilton College Summary The activity is designed to help students conceptualize the spatiotemporal relationships between erosion and deposition across a convex topography, which serves as a ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition
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Bedform mapping in a coastal environment part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Peter Lea, Bowdoin College
Students use a learning cycle of prediction-observation- comparison to investigate diverse bedforms exposed at low tide at a beach/inlet/tidal-delta complex and to relate them to formative flows.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity, Field Activity:Importation of field observations into the classroom, Field trip
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments, Sedimentary Structures
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A Project for Students Using Data from the XES Basin part of Sedimentary Geology:Using Physical Models
A project on sedimentary basin architecture and sequence stratigraphy Synthethic stratigraphy created in an XES Basin experimental run (XES 02) Imagine that you asked your students to interpret a seismic section ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Depositional environments:Shelf-slope Environment, Marginal-Marine, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Stratigraphy:Sequence Stratigraphy
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