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    SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 1: Interacting with an Online Jupyter Notebook part of Teaching Activities
    Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
    In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use a Jupyter notebook interface to interact with code created by someone else, 3) edit code ...

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Problem Set
    Subject: Mathematics

    Sensitivity of Parameters in Chaotic Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
    Namyong Lee, Minnesota State University-Mankato
    In this computer lab activity, students explore and discuss the nature of the sensitivity of parameters in a chaotic system. As a result, they understand the challenges of numerical simulation and/or parameters ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16), Graduate/Professional
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
    Subject: Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Health Sciences, Engineering, Geoscience, Mathematics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    SSBW - Linux Tutorial 2: Next Steps part of Teaching Activities
    Mike Brudzinski, Miami University-Oxford
    In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) redirect information to or from files, 3) use ...

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity, Problem Set
    Subject: Mathematics

    Earth's history in 4.56 meters: constructing a timeline with calculator tape part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
    Eric Baer, Highline Community College
    An activity where students make a geologic timeline from calculator tape.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Lab Activity
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Historical Geology, Mathematics
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
    On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activities collection.
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    River Flooding and Erosion part of Urban Geology:Activities
    Bill Dupre, University of Houston-University Park
    Students take a real-life situation (river flooding and erosion), use real flood and map data, and make predictions and recommendations as to what to do to help alleviate the problem.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Writing Assignment, Project, Lab Activity
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Sedimentary Geology:Depositional environments:Continental, Mathematics:Statistics:Probability, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Mathematics:Statistics
    Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
    On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Collection This activity is part of the On the Cutting Edge Exemplary Teaching Activities collection.
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    Introduction to Science - Penny Histograms part of Undergraduate Research:2014 Workshop:Activities
    Kathryn, Green River Community College; Kathryn Hoppe, Green River Community College
    Overview: This exercise serves as an introduction to histograms. Students are given a short introduction to histograms in lecture and reading. They are then broken up into different groups of 3-5 students. Students ...

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
    Subject: Mathematics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    The Floating Lithosphere - Isostasy part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
    Len Vacher, University of South Florida
    Students are asked to numerically and then analytically determine the relations governing the depth of compensation.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Physics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Mathematics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Exploring Radiometric Dating with Dice part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
    Carla Whittington derived from Baer (1999) Related Links Radioactive Decay ProbabilityExponential Growth and Decay
    An activity in which students use dice to explore radioactive decay and dating and make simple calculations.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration, Activities:Lab Activity
    Subject: Mathematics, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Radioisotopes
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Math Review part of Hydrogeology:Hydrogeology, Soils, Geochemistry 2013:Activities
    Kallina Dunkle, Austin Peay State University
    This is designed as an introductory lab for hydrogeology or other upper-level courses that are quantitative in nature in order to review key mathematical concepts that will be used throughout the semester.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
    Subject: Mathematics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    World Population Activity I: Excel part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Mathematical and Statistical Models Examples
    Activity and Starting Point page by R.M. MacKay. Clark College, Physics and Meteorology.
    (Activity 1 of 2) This activity is primarily intended as an introductory tutorial on using Excel. Students use Excel to explore population dynamics using the Logistic equation for (S-shaped) population growth. -

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Tools, Computer Applications, Activities:Lab Activity
    Subject: Mathematics:Statistics, Environmental Science:Human Population
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review