Calculation of Stream Discharge Required to Move Bed Material part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Reed Schwimmer, Rider University
Students will measure stream velocity, depth, and grain sizes across two channel transects. After constructing both a longitudinal profile and two cross sections, students will calculate the discharge required to ...

Use of an inquiry approach for exploring relationships between small stream dynamics, channel geometry, and bedform movement part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Kerry Keen, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
This group activity allows students to identify questions in the field on an actual physical system (in this case a small sand and gravel bed stream), then design experiments to answer their own questions. The ...

Turbidite vs. Debris Flow: A Class Debate on Deep Water Depositional Systems part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Bosiljka Glumac, Smith College
Debates are a powerful tool for learning and active involvement of students: instead of listening to a lecture on deep water depositional systems the students examine primary literature and debate controversial ...

Density-modified flow part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
James Trexler, University of Nevada-Reno
Students study and experiment with the effects of slope and denisty differences on density-modified currents, flowing in fresh water.

New Approaches to field-based analysis of stratigraphic sections part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Paul Myrow, Colorado College
This is a field-based project that is designed to teach students how to interpret processes of deposition and paleoenvironments from outcrop.

Deriving bedform phase diagrams part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Tom Hickson, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Students derive bedform phase diagrams from Middleton and Southard (1984) by plotting the original data (stolen using DataThief software from the publication) in Excel and defining bedform field boundaries. These ...

El Nino activity part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Erica Bigio, The University of Arizona
This activity is similar to one of the El Nino Activities in the collection, but this uses a good mapping website. This can be done at home or in class as a team of two students (with a laptop).

Discharge and Sediment Transport in the Field part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Jeff Clark, Lawrence University
In this quantitative field activity, students collect field data on channel geometry, flow velocity, and bed materials. Using these data, they apply flow resistance equations and sediment transport relations to estimate the bankfull discharge and to determine if the flow is sufficient to mobilize the bed.

Sedimentators part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday
Bailey Zo Kreager, Elgin Community College
The "Sedimentators" activity focuses on helping students observe the relationship between sediment grain size and the energy of the environment that eroded or deposited the grains. The activity uses a ...

Source to Sink Morphology, Sedimentation, and Anthropogenic Impact: Hudson System, New York part of MARGINS Data in the Classroom:MARGINS Mini-Lessons
Cecilia McHugh, CUNY Brooklyn College
Familiarize students with the morphology of passive continental margins and their associated shelf valleys, submarine canyons and estuaries, and assess the anthropogenic impact.