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Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.
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Investigation of the Minnehaha Falls area part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Justin Larson
Kevin Swanson
Chippewa Middle School
North Oaks, MN
This activity is a combination of a field investigation and direct instruction at Minnehaha Falls. We are investigating Twin Cities rock types and weathering from the flowing water.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes
Stream investigation: Investigate how a local stream might have an impact on our surrounding landscape. part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
Joseph Cynor
This activity is a field investigation where students will make stream observations to determine its geologic processes and influence to our local topography.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
Rapid changes in Greenland outlet glaciers part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Leigh Stearns, University of Kansas Main Campus
I've designed a website to educate students and teachers about how glaciers flow, how they are changing, and why these changes are important to us.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial
The Grand Canyon part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Role Playing:Examples
Rebecca Teed, Wright State University-Main Campus
This interdisciplinary lesson plan deals with the consequences of damming in the Grand Canyon area. The students, role-playing as scientists, write a proposal to try experimental flooding. -
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Ecology, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning, Policy:US National Policy, State Policy, Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling, Habitats
Using Data to Teach Earth ProcessesAn Illustrated Community Discussion at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America part of Data, Simulations and Models:Workshop 03:Activities
Jim Roark NASA GSFC SSAI
Jim Roark NASA GSFC SSAI - We are using topography data of Earth and Mars to produce accurate 3-dimensional plastic models of comparable large scale geologic surface features from both planets. These models will be ...
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geoscience:Lunar and Planetary Science
Using Data to Teach Earth ProcessesAn Illustrated Community Discussion at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America part of Data, Simulations and Models:Workshop 03:Activities
Thomas W. Oesleby
Thomas W. Oesleby Northwest College - Students learn to use a geologic compass to measure rock fractures and formulate a hypothesis to explain the origin of the fractures -
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Field Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Structural Geology:Joints/Fractures, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Weathering
Using Data to Teach Earth ProcessesAn Illustrated Community Discussion at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America part of Data, Simulations and Models:Workshop 03:Activities
Christine Massey, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
Christine A. Massey Perkins Geology Museum--University of Vermont - The Landscape Change Project works with middle and high school students to archive physical landscape change in Vermont. Students work with ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities:Project, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geography:Human/Cultural, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology, Geography:Physical, Geospatial