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Glacial Landscapes Jigsaw with an Augmented Reality Sandbox part of Teaching Activities
Sheldon Turner, Triton College
A jigsaw style activity where students learn the basics of topographic maps and teach their peers about glacial landforms through use of an augmented reality sandbox.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Understanding weathering through museum-curated displays part of Teaching Activities
Charu Sharma, Arden University
The Natural History Museum's permanent exhibition, Restless Surface, offers an innovative setup for designing a laboratory activity for learners being introduced to Earth's surficial processes. Here, the ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering

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 ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Climate feedbacks
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Coastal Investigation Using SandSnap Database part of Teaching Activities
Shelley Whitmeyer, James Madison University
Students will learn about sediment properties and use these properties to analyze coastal processes. Data for this activity is provided. Students will infer the direction of longshore transport and test their ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks:Clastics , Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Coastal-zone, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition

Soil Mantled Hillslope Profile part of Teaching Activities
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
This activity is used in an upper-division process-based geomorphology course in a hillslope unit. Students derive a steady-state soil profile using the diffusive transport equation.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Modeling/Physical Experiments

Rolling Rocks (Not the Beer!) - How Nature Shapes Stone part of Teaching Activities
Scott Brande, University of Alabama at Birmingham
The transformation of massive rock to sediment (i.e., gravel) is a process of nature not confined to Earth. A qualitative introduction to the forces of weathering and erosion that control the development of ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Lab 7: Hawai'i part of Teaching Activities
Jo Martin, Oberlin College; Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
Students extract streams and watersheds from a DEM for the island of Hawai'i. They then look to seeif there is a correlation between precipitation and the way a stream network develops on a mountain. Students ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Environmental Science, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Mudcracks - What's It Good For? part of Teaching Activities
Scott Brande, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Many terrestrial sedimentary processes are not difficult to observe, describe, and interpret. Yet many of these dynamic processes are not limited to the Earth. One example is the formation of mudcracks that provide ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review