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Google Earth Investigation of Pleistocene Flood Deposits Across the Pacific Northwest part of Teaching Activities
Elizabeth Cassel, University of Idaho
In this activity, students use Google Earth Pro to examine and measure sedimentary and geomorphic structures related to the late Pleistocene draining of glacial Lake Missoula and Lake Bonneville.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Fluvial and Alluvial Sedimentology Incorporating Google Earth part of Sedimentary Geology:Activities
Elizabeth Cassel, University of Idaho
A lab activity for an undergraduate sedimentary geology course focused on fluvial and alluvial sedimentology, incorporating Google Earth.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Audio/Visual:Maps, Computer Applications, Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Techniques of Sedimentary Geology, Sediment Transport and Deposition, Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Red Beans and Rice: Slope failure experimental modeling part of Geomorphology:Activities
Tom Hickson, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Students replicate a slope failure experiment published in Science (Densmore et al., 1997) using a simple, acrylic slope failure box in an effort to forge a link between autocyclic processes, long-term landscape ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landscape Evolution, Landforms/Processes, Modeling/Physical Experiments, Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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Viewing geomorphic landforms with Google Earth part of Geomorphology:Activities
Amy Brock, Western Illinois University
Geomorphic processes are not limited to the local or regional area around the University and most students have not been outside of the region. With today's technology we are able to see features on the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Mass Movement, Coastal-zone, Glacial/Periglacial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology, Landforms/Processes:Volcanoes, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Weathering/Soils, Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Climate/Paleoclimate, Landforms/Processes:Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Source to Sink Morphology, Sedimentation, and Anthropogenic Impact: Hudson System, New York part of MARGINS Data in the Classroom:MARGINS Mini-Lessons
Cecilia McHugh, CUNY Brooklyn College
Familiarize students with the morphology of passive continental margins and their associated shelf valleys, submarine canyons and estuaries, and assess the anthropogenic impact.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Sediment Transport and Deposition
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Mapping a local Dune Field, and estimating paleowind speed and direction part of Geomorphology:Activities
Donald Rodbell, Union College (Lincoln, NE)
We visit the Pinebush dune field in eastern New York State (20 minutes from campus). Students map one large parabolic dune, and collect sample of dune sand. In the lab, students map the dune field from aerial ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities, Writing Assignment, Field Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Climate/Paleoclimate, Landscape Evolution, Landforms/Processes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Evidence for Active Tectonics in local watersheds-Fluvial geomorph part of Geomorphology:Activities
Cathy Connor, University of Alaska Southeast
In this lab, student analyze imagery from fieldtrip sites to identify fluvial geomorphic and tectonic processes.

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Field Activity:Field trip , Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial, Hillslopes, Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Geomorphology:Tectonic Geomorphology, Landforms/Processes