Teaching Activities
Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.
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- Air Quality 2 matches
- Ecosystems 28 matches
- Energy 30 matches sources, supply, reserves, uses
- Forest Resources 3 matches
- Water Quality and Quantity 47 matches including water resource management, water quality and water treatment
- Global Change and Climate 53 matches
- Waste 14 matches
- Mineral Resources 4 matches includes precious metals, base metals, industrial minerals, aggregate
- Soils and Agriculture 3 matches
- Oceans and Coastal Resources 12 matches
- Land Use and Planning 15 matches planning, zoning, sprawl issues, urban heat island
- Human Population 2 matches
- Sustainability 32 matches
- Natural Hazards 40 matches
- Policy 46 matches
Environmental Science
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- ACM Pedagogic Resources 1 match
- BASICS 5 matches
- Climate Education in an Age of Media 6 matches
- Curriculum for the Bioregion 1 match
- Cutting Edge 104 matches
- E-STEM 1 match
- Earth and Space Science 1 match
- Earth Educators Rendezvous 4 matches
- Earth Exploration Toolbook 1 match
- EarthLabs for Educators 2 matches
- EarthScope ANGLE 4 matches
- GeoEthics 10 matches
- GETSI 2 matches
- Integrate 8 matches
- Integrating Research and Education 1 match
- IODP School of Rock 2020 8 matches
- NAGT 4 matches
- Oceans in the News 1 match
- Pedagogy in Action 2 matches
- Project EDDIE 2 matches
- Quantitative Skills 1 match
- SISL 2 matches
- Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience 34 matches
- Sustainability Workshop 1 match
- Teach the Earth 17 matches
- Teaching Computation with MATLAB 5 matches
- Teaching with Augmented and Virtual Reality 1 match
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Animation for grades 6-12 part of Climate Education in an Age of Media:Use Student Media Production:Activities
candace dunlap
Students will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Video Assignment, Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Iceberg of Antarctica part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Turtle Haste, Desert Ridge Middle School; Diane Nihart, Albuquerque Public Schools
After exploring the various hands-on, art, kinesthetic activities, and electronic resources after reading the book: Iceberg of Antarctica by Marlo Garnsworthy, students will develop, create, and produce their own ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Project, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Ocean-Climate Interactions, Marine Resources, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Paleontology:Biostratigraphy/Biogeography , Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Sea Level Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Adopt a Microbe! - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slide playlist that will introduce students to microbes that can be found in deep sea sediments, and what roles they play in their environment. This playlist is suitable for use in remote ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity, Project
Subject: Biology:Microbiology, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Deep Marine Environment, Geoscience:Oceanography:Biological, Marine Resources, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Microbial Properties and Metabolism, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Tess Weathers, Chabot College, Engineering
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Engineering, Biology, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Physico-chemical Oceanographic data analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Most Israt Jahan Mili, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
This activity is a part of the course that can be used for either physical oceanography (CTD data profiling) or chemical oceanography lab exercise. This is included with the real-time field sampling data that was ...
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity, Field Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Engineering, Environmental Science, Geoscience
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Student perspectives on climate discussions from the UN Conference of Parties (COP) via audio narrative part of Teaching Activities
Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine
This assignment provides students a storytelling structure that allows for their own voice and creativity to be applied. This is accomplished through the selection of an audience for a recorded voicemail and the ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Geoethics Case Study: Pebble Mine, Alaska part of GeoEthics:Activities
Dave Mogk, Montana State University-Bozeman
David Mogk, Montana State University-Bozeman Summary The proposed Pebble Mine, Alaska, is one of the world's biggest proven Cu-Au-Mo deposits. However, it is located at the headwaters of rivers that flow into ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Discussion, Project:Investigative Case Studies, Activities:Writing Assignment
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values
FutureEarthCast: Voicemails from 50 years in the future part of Teaching Activities
Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine
Students are challenged to write a script and record a voicemail that is left 50 years in the future, describing changes that have taken place in the local environment based upon scientifically-accurate information ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Geology, Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Ethical Dilemmas of Backcountry Skiing and Guiding part of GeoEthics:Activities
Dave Mogk, Montana State University-Bozeman
Dave Mogk, Emma Vigers and Matt Wood, Montana State University-Bozeman Summary This case study explores decision-making in high risk settings such as back-country skiing. The scenarios presented have application ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Discussion, Project:Investigative Case Studies, Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review