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Earth education activities from across all of the sites within the Teach the Earth portal.
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Karst Hydrogeology and Geomorphology: A virtual field experience using Google Earth, GIS, and TAK part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Rachel Bosch, Northern Kentucky University
Students will have the opportunity to select and virtually explore the hydrogeology and geomorphology of a karst landscape using Google Earth (or perhaps Google Mars or Google Moon if they so choose), lidar ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Project, Lab Activity, Writing Assignment
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water
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Mt. St. Helens Topographic Profiles part of Geodesy:Activities
Eileen Herrstrom, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This activity takes place in a laboratory setting and requires ~1-1.5 hours to complete. Students study topographic maps of Mt. St. Helens before and after the eruption of May 18, 1980, and draw two topographic ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
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Meander Migration in the Amazon Basin part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Les Hasbargen, SUNY College at Oneonta
This activity is targeted at introductory to upper division undergraduate courses in geomorphology or Earth system science. Students view time series animation of satellite imagery of part of the Amazon River basin ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
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Introduction to GIS through river meandering and landslide mapping part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Karen Gran, University of Minnesota-Duluth
The primary goal of this lab is to develop basic ArcGIS skills for geomorphology students and give them a taste of what is possible in GIS. The lab is written for the GIS novice, and thus includes detailed ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
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Exploring topographic steady-state in Taiwan part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Karen Gran, University of Minnesota-Duluth
This activity is designed as both an introduction to GIS and an exploration of topographic steady-state. Students analyze DEMs from Taiwan to extract topographic profiles across the range. They reconstruct a series ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
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Visualizing Data from a Journal Article: A Critical Thinking Exercise part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Jeannette Wolak Luna, Tennessee Technological University
This is a take-home exercise for junior or senior-level students in a Sedimentation/Stratigraphy course. It may be used to bridge topics of geomorphology, depositional environments and clastic sedimentology. The ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Problem Set
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology, Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Stratigraphy, Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology
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Developing a stream restoration proposal part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Gabrielle David, Boston College
Students spend the semester developing a stream restoration proposal for a local watershed. Students are asked to collect geomorphic field data and use these data to design a restoration plan.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
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Lag to peak with a stream table part of Sedimentary Geology:Sedimentology, Geomorphology, and Paleontology 2014:Activities
Amanda Schmidt, Oberlin College
Students use a small stream table in groups to investigate how channel form determines the shape of the hydrograph (including lag to peak). They use three channels: no channel (just sediment filling the table), a ...
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Fluvial
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Case Study: Coastal Stabilization Structures part of Oceanography:Activities
Al Trujillo, Palomar College
This ocean activity is used to help students analyze different solutions to a real-world case study of the problem of using various coastal stabilization structures. It is intended to be used as a small group ...
Online Readiness: Online Ready
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Coastal-zone, Geoscience:Oceanography, Oceanography:Marine Policy, Environmental Science:Policy
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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.
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
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