Baseflow recession part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Les Hasbargen, SUNY College at Oneonta
This baseflow recession exercise will help students build skills in analyzing time series data in a spreadsheet. It should also open their eyes to the variation in streamflow, both at a single location over a year, ...

Inland water chemistry: the Nordic Lake Survey 1995 part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Tom Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway
While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we ...

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 ...

Module 6 Capstone – Reversing the Process part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
Jonathan Cohen, University of Delaware; Victoria E Simons, University of Delaware; Matthew Oliver, University of Delaware
This final module is a capstone project where students have to use what they have learned up until now to create their own news article based on a data set they find. The idea behind this project is that students ...

Contrails or Chemtrails? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Blair Larsen, Utah State University
Using multi-media and basic atmospheric physics, students investigate contrails and chemtrails. Students apply previous learning about pseudoscience, and couple that with an understanding of the atmosphere to reach ...

Having Students Create an Online Discussion Board Forum: Recent Oceanographic Info in the News & A Beautiful Question part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Al Trujillo, Palomar College
An online Discussion Board Forum is a great tool for facilitating student interaction. If done well, discussion boards not only deepen learning, they can also build class community, an essential element for ...

Global Patterns part of Complex Systems:Teaching Activities
Federica Raia, The City College of New York
Based on my research on how best to enhance students' understanding of complex systems, I utilize various activities to support pattern recognition, a fundamental skill to understanding complex systems ...

McGee Creek Geomorphic History part of E-STEM:Field Course:ESTEM-PD Activities
Sarah Hall, College of the Atlantic; Calla Schmidt, University of San Francisco; Becca Walker, Mt. San Antonio College
At the McGee Creek field site, students observe geomorphic features that provide evidence for at least 2 processes (one tectonic and one climatic) influencing this landscape as well as ongoing modification of this ...

Investigating Oceanographic Issues and Solutions part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Anthony Santorelli, Anne Arundel Community College; Denise Bristol, Hillsborough Community College; Jennifer Nelson, Purdue University-Main Campus; Amy Hochberg, Utah State University; Al Trujillo, Palomar College
Students explore an oceanographic issue and solutions in a discussion post (text or video), and provide critical analysis.

Annotation part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Putting Sustainability into Action workshop:Activities
Richard David Gragg III Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University,
Use Purdue OWL to annotate the paper Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World