Build Your Own Earth part of Teaching Activities
David Schultz, University of Manchester
Build Your Own Earth is a freely available web site to explore the factors that affect Earth's climate. Climate model simulations reveal the annual distributions of 50 different quantities. An accompanying ...

Northwestern Indiana Landscape Unit part of Teaching Activities
Moriah Weitman, University of Maine
In this lesson, students will investigate the question, what is the effect of climate on glacial landscape processes? Students will be guided through understanding how climate factors, such as temperature and ...

UCLA's Atmospheric Outreach Program part of Teaching Activities
Jasper Kok, University of California-Los Angeles
UCLA's Desert Dust and Climate Change Outreach Program intends to inspire students to pursue careers in the sciences by exposing them to real life applications of science and showing them the impact research ...

Calculation of your personal carbon footprint part of Energy:Energy Activities
Scott Giorgis, SUNY College at Geneseo
This worksheet walks the students through the steps for calculating their personal carbon footprint. Additionally it helps them consider options for reducing their carbon footprint and the potential costs of those ...

Where's the volcanic threat? part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Mark Abolins, Middle Tennessee State University
Students investigate Costa Rican volcanic hazards using (a) the amount of silica in volcanic rocks, (b) a highly-simplified geologic map and (c) a satellite image of Costa Rican night time illumination (i.e., human ...

Ocean Carbon Storage and Acidification part of Teaching Activities
Allison Jacobel, Middlebury College
This module guides students through an examination of how Earth scientists use marine sediments to reconstruct changes in Earth's climate and the carbon cycle. In Part A, students learn about ocean ...

Transform Boundary Investigation part of Teaching Activities
Jacqueline Reber, Iowa State University
Students will conduct experiments (or watch videos of the experiment in the online version) to measure interseismic intervals and offset during slip on simple block models. They will compare their findings with ...