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Unit 1: Earthquake! part of GPS, Strain, and Earthquakes
Vince Cronin, Baylor University (Vince_Cronin@baylor.edu) Phil Resor, Wesleyan University (presor@wesleyan.edu)
In this opening unit, students develop the societal context for understanding earthquake hazards using as a case study the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake. It starts with a short homework "scavenger hunt" ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Stress/Strain/Strain Analysis, Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology, Geodynamics, Geography:Geospatial, Human/Cultural, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Coastal Hazards:Tsunami, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Environmental Science:Energy:Energy Infrastructure, Nuclear Energy, Geoscience:Oceanography:Physical , Marine Geology and Geophysics, Geography:Physical, Geoscience:Oceanography:Marine Hazards
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Hotspot Lesson: Mantle Plumes part of ERESE:ERESE Activities
Jamie A. Russell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Related Links Relative Dating Hotspot Theory and Plate Velocities Samoan Hotspot Final Hotspot Project View Lesson Plan at ERESE ...
This lesson introduces the theory of mantle plumes and possible ways of finding evidence to support the theory.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Geophysics:Geodynamics
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Scientific debate: Mantle plumes part of Deep Earth:Activities
Brennan Jordan, University of South Dakota
A structured format for a debate of the mantle plume hypothesis and alternative hypotheses with supporting materials.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Project, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Geophysics:Geodynamics
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Reading and responding to geological journal articles part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:Structure, Geophysics, and Tectonics 2012:Activities
Rory McFadden, Carleton College
This a semester long activity for students in a plate tectonics course will be read one (or two) geological journal articles every other week on the major topics covered in the course. Students will submit reading ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Rheology/Behavior of Materials, Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geophysics, Geophysics:Geodynamics
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Earth Motion Monitor part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Charles Ammon, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
An activity based around the display near real-time seismograms in the classroom.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology, Tectonophysics, Geodynamics
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Driving forces of plate tectonics and the importance of inertia part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Donald Forsyth, Brown University
Simple in class calculations showing that inertia or momentum is completely unimportant in considering the driving forces of plate tectonics

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Tectonophysics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review