What drives the global climate? The relationship between Latitude, Insolation, and Temperature part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Chuck Buxbaum, Sandia Preparatory School
1st we simulate the amount of solar energy striking the surface of the Earth (insolation) using artificial light source, light meter, and protractor. Light striking meter directly (perpendicularly)=equator, meter ...

Greenhouse effect laboratory activity as an introduction to climate change part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2018:Program:Share-a-Thon:Share-a-Thon Presentations
Devon Colcord, Anoka-Ramsey Community College; Cody Kirkpatrick, Indiana University-Bloomington
DemonstrationAt the Rendezvous, we intend to have the complete setup for this lab exercise, including a heat lamp shining through the various "atmospheres" while we monitor the temperature of the ...

The Pangea Puzzle part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2017:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Friday B
Katherine Ryker, University of South Carolina-Columbia; Callan Bentley, Piedmont Virginia Community College; Mark Uhen, George Mason University
Students learn how to use the Paleobiology Database (PBDB) to produce maps of fossils on the present day Earth's surface, as well as past continental configurations. They do this by mapping the occurrence of ...

Blue Crab Population in the Chesapeake Bay part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Matt Heller, James Madison University
This 20 minute activity introduces the concepts of reservoirs, stocks, and fluxes as they relate to natural systems. It consists of: 1) introducing key terms, 2) describing the significance of the Chesapeake Bay ...

Off Base - Acidity of Oceans part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday
Cheryl Manning, OrbWeaver Consulting, LLC
The teaching demonstration is intended to inspire student questions from which they can design an investigation regarding ocean's carbonate buffer system, how changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels may ...

Creative Final Project part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Share-a-thon Session
Sabrina Brown, Defiance College
I use this activity as a final project in my introductory courses. Students are asked to choose a topic covered during the course and develop a creative project surrounding this topic. Students are also required to ...

Bringing Polar Landscapes into the College Classroom Using 360-degree Interactive Environments part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday Teaching Demo Session A
Emily Geraghty Ward, University of Colorado at Boulder; Twila Moon, University of Colorado at Boulder; Spruce Schoenemann, The University of Montana-Western; Alia Khan, Western Washington University; Anne Gold, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daniela Pennycook, University of Colorado at Boulder; Alyssa Lazoen, University of Colorado at Boulder; Yixiao Lei, University of Colorado at Boulder
In this teaching demonstration, participants will have the chance to engage with 360-degree interactive environments (360 IE) that explore the polar environments of Greenland. We will discuss how the 360 IEs were ...

Curricular Pathways for Geohazard Learning part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Share-a-thon Session
Beth Pratt-Sitaula, EarthScope
The EarthScope ANGLE Curricular Pathways offer four different ways to approach learning related to geohazard topic: Instrumentation, Plate Tectonics, Earthquake Impacts, and Community Resilience. The specific ...

Where in the World is Vladimir Koppen? part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Tuesday
Wendy Robertson, Central Michigan University; Daria Kluver, Central Michigan University
Where in the World is Vladimir Koppen? is a board game designed for college-level introduction to the Koppen Climate Classification System. The activity is designed to work in groups of 4-12, with students ...

Overcoming Narrative Challenges in Geosciences part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
Matthew Oliver, University of Delaware; Jonathan Cohen, University of Delaware
One consequence of living in a highly connected world is that students are bombarded with geoscience information claiming to support or encourage particular attitudes or dispositions toward the natural world. These ...