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    Half Life Model part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
    David N. Steer (steer@uakron.edu)and Kyle Gray (krg10@uakron.edu), University of Akron This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. GEO-0506518.
    While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students manipulate a hands-on, physical model to better comprehend the nature of half life. Students use the model to simulate the decay of radionuclides. The ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Radioisotopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry
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    From Isotopes to Temperature: Working With A Temperature Equation part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
    Dorien McGee
    Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build a spreadsheet to examine from a dataset the relation between oxygen isotopes in corals and the temperature of surrounding seawater.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience, Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry
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    Online Investigation of an Island Arc Volcano: Anatahan, Mariana Arc part of MARGINS Data in the Classroom:MARGINS Mini-Lessons
    Jeff Ryan, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg
    This activity is a Web investigation and research exercise starting with the 2003-present Anatahan volcanic eruptions in the Mariana arc, and concluding with a petrologic examination of published Mariana arc lavas data sets.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Geochemistry
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