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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
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Transgression and Regression CogSketch geoscience worksheet part of Introductory Courses:Activities
Bridget Garnier
Sketching activity that uses a sketch-understanding program, CogSketch. Students build transgression and regression stratigraphic sequences with 4 near-shore lithologies (beach sand, fine sand, mud, and limestone).

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Activities, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Depositional environments:Marginal-Marine

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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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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Hallway Sediment Core Mural part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School; Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School
For the activity, a world map will be constructed in the hallway. Students will be provided with data sets that explain different pieces of evidence. Students will analyze the visual evidence, and will tape the ...

Grade Level: Middle (6-8), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Depositional environments, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Geology and Geophysics, Marine Resources, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Shelf-slope Environment, Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Marginal-Marine

Field and Laboratory Studies of Coastal Processes part of NAGT:Our Work:Past Projects:Teaching in the Field:Field Trip Collection
Dr. William Slattery Wright State University Intended Audience: In-service and Pre-service K12 teachers Location: Coastal New Jersey Show Daily Intinerary Hide Show Suggestions for Modification Hide   ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Course Information, Activities:Virtual Field Trip, Field Activity:Field trip , Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Marginal-Marine