Teaching Activities
Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.
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Online Readiness
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- Biodiversity 21 matches endangered species, extinction, succession
- Biogeochemical cycling 66 matches
- Ecology 50 matches including food webs, food chains, productivity, feedback mechanisms, population cycles, communities, niches, carrying capacity, succession, climax community
- Evolution 7 matches
- Habitats 26 matches preservation, change, degradation
- Restoration/Reclamation 11 matches
Environmental Science > Ecosystems
199 matches General/OtherProject Show all
- ACM Pedagogic Resources 1 match
- BASICS 1 match
- CLEAN 46 matches
- CUREnet 4 matches
- Curriculum for the Bioregion 52 matches
- Cutting Edge 37 matches
- E-STEM 1 match
- Earth Exploration Toolbook 8 matches
- EarthLabs for Educators 14 matches
- GETSI 6 matches
- Integrate 36 matches
- IODP School of Rock 2020 1 match
- Microbial Life 1 match
- NAGT 2 matches
- Oceans in the News 2 matches
- Pedagogy in Action 25 matches
- Project EDDIE 24 matches
- Quantitative Skills 7 matches
- SISL 12 matches
- Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience 45 matches
- Starting Point: Teaching and Learning Economics 1 match
- Teach the Earth 7 matches
- Teacher Preparation 1 match
- Teaching Computation with MATLAB 1 match
Results 1 - 10 of 335 matches
Assessing the Risk of Invasive Species Using Community Science Data part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Matthew Heard, Belmont University
This module introduces students who are already familiar with GIS to doing comparative analyses with large-scale community science (often called citizen science) data sets. Students will explore how we can use ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Biology:Diversity, Plant Biology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Habitats:Invasive species, Environmental Science, Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Sustainability
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
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Teleconnections part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Kaitlin Farrell, University of Georgia; Cayelan Carey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
Ecosystems can be influenced by teleconnections, in which meteorological, societal, and/or ecological phenomenon link remote regions via cause and effect relationships. Because it is difficult to predict how ...
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:El Nino, Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :El Nino/La Nina, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology
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Unit 5: Integrated Geophysical Interpretation and Comparison with Ground Truthing part of Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity
Compiled by Lee Slater, Rutgers University Newark (lslater@newark.rutgers.edu)
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In this unit, students explore spatial associations between the three-dimensional electromagnetic (EM) conductivity inversions and the visible patterns of Salicornia (pickleweed) introduced in Unit 1, Exploring ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Real-world Examples
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Point Source Pollution, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Physics:Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid :Landfills, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Wetlands, Surface Water , Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods:Electrical Conductivity/Resistivity, Environmental Science:Ecosystems
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Unit 2: Geophysical Properties of the Subsurface part of Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity
Compiled by Lee Slater, Rutgers University Newark (lslater@newark.rutgers.edu)
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Archie (1950) defined the term petrophysics to describe the study of the physics of rocks, particularly with respect to the fluids they contain. Although originally focused on geophysical exploration, petrophysics ...
Resource Type: Activities: Real-world Examples, Activities:Lab Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Point Source Pollution, Wetlands, Surface Water , Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid :Landfills, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Physics:Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods:Electrical Conductivity/Resistivity, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry
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Remote Sensing of Plants and Topography in R part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Kyla Dahlin, Michigan State University
This module introduces students who are already familiar with remote sensing and R to doing quantitative analyses with large spatial data sets. Students will explore different possible abiotic drivers of plant ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Terrestrial, Geoscience:Biogeosciences , Biology:Plant Biology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Habitats, Geography:Geospatial, Environmental Science:Ecosystems
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
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Paleoclimate and Ocean Biogeochemistry part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Allison Jacobel, Middlebury College
This module guides students through an examination of how surface ocean productivity relates to global climate on glacial-interglacial timescales and how the availability of ocean nutrients can be correlated with ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Resources, Ocean-Climate Interactions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Atmospheric and oceanic circulation, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Biology:Biogeochemistry:Carbon Cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Biology:Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemistry:Nutrient Limitation and Cycling, Geography, Environmental Science:Oceans and Coastal Resources
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Module 4 Polar Ecosystems part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
Jonathan Cohen, University of Delaware; Matthew Oliver, University of Delaware; Victoria E Simons, University of Delaware
This module follows logically from the previous and gives a biological context to sea ice. Students will review knowledge about seasonal trends in sea ice and learn how this impacts organisms that live in polar ...
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities
Subject: Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Marine, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Biology:Ecology:Food Webs
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Unit 4: The Magic of Geophysical Inversion part of Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity
Compiled by Lee Slater, Rutgers University Newark (lslater@newark.rutgers.edu)
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This unit introduces the student to the concept of geophysical inversion, which is the process of estimating the geophysical properties of the subsurface from the geophysical observations. The basic mechanics of ...
Resource Type: Activities: Computer Applications, Datasets and Tools, Activities:Lab Activity, Real-world Examples
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Point Source Pollution, Wetlands, Surface Water , Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid :Landfills, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Exploration Methods:Electrical Conductivity/Resistivity, Physics:Other Sciences:Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Module 5 Human Dimensions in the Poles part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
Jonathan Cohen, University of Delaware; Matthew Oliver, University of Delaware; Victoria E Simons, University of Delaware
This unit covers the concept of bioaccumulation of contaminants in a food web, all the way up to humans. Students learn about what constitutes a contaminant, how contaminants can accumulate in an organism and move ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Non-Point Source Pollution, Biology:Ecology:Food Webs, Environmental Science:Waste, Human Population:Nutrition and Famine, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Geoscience:Oceanography
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Nutrient Monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Modules
Akinyele Oni, Morgan State University; Niangoran Koissi, Morgan State University
The Chesapeake Bay waters receive input from rivers and streams from areas of Washington D.C, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and some parts of New York and Pennsylvania. Historically, humongous ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Biogeosciences , Biology:Biogeochemistry:Nutrient Limitation and Cycling, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Biology:Biogeochemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Environmental Science:Waste, Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Water Quality and Quantity:Point Source Pollution
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review
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