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Crystallization from Melt Demonstration part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
This demonstration uses melted phenyl salicylate to show how crystals nucleate and grow as the temperature of the liquid melt decreases. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration, Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Mineralogy:Crystal Chemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Processes
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

The Lifestyle Project at West Chester University of Pennsylvania part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Experience-Based Environmental Projects
Tim Lutz, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
This five-week project asks students to examine the environmental outcomes of their lifestyle choices, to investigate and try out more sustainable choices, and to write about their experiences.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14), High School (9-12)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Decision-Making, Environmental Science:Energy:Efficiency and Energy Conservation, Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Ethics/Values, Environmental Science:Waste:Waste Solid :Waste Reduction/Recycling, Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water and society, policy, and management, Geography:Human/Cultural, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Planck Radiation Laws: Excel; Mac or PC 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.
Students use an existing Excel workbook to investigate how spectral irradiance from a blackbody radiator depends on temperature, Excel Mac or PC -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Solar radiation, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Solar and terrestrial radiation
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

Hydrosphere part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Socratic Questioning:Examples
Dorothy Merritts, Franklin and Marshall College
Detailed, annotated example of Socratic questioning for topics of hydrologic cycle, streamflow hydrographs, and impacts of land-use change on streamflow. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Socratic Questioning
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Surface Water
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Sun Spot Analysis part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Teaching with Data:Examples
Bob Mackay, Clark College; Mike Clark, Carleton College
Introductory students use Excel to graph monthly mean Greenwich sunspot numbers from 1749 to 2004 and perform a spectral analysis of the data using the free software program "Spectra". -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Datasets and Tools:Datasets with Teaching Activities, Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Physics:Astronomy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Solar and terrestrial radiation
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Virtual Oil Well Game part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Games:Examples
Teaching Material by American Geological Institute - Starting Point page by R.E. Teed (SERC)
This strategy game has players prospect for oil using seismic profiles on limited budgets. -

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Engaging Question part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:First Day of Class:Activities
Karl Wirth, Macalester College Course: Dynamic Earth and Global Change 20 students This activity serves a number of functions, including an introduction to the course, a learning prompt that can be revisited ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity
Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Paleoclimate records
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Igneous Rocks Model part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Interactive Lecture Demonstrations:Examples
David Steer (steer@uakron.edu) and Kyle Gray (krg10@uakron.edu), University of Akron This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. GEO-0506518.
While working in groups to facilitate peer tutoring, students use samples of four igneous rocks (gabbro, basalt, granite, and rhyolite) to observe differences in texture, color and grain size and make inferences ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Demonstration
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Igneous Rocks
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Investigative Case - "Swampeast Missouri" part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Investigative Case Based Learning:Examples
Developed for Lifelines Online by Michelle Fisher at Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff, Missouri. (http://www.bioquest.org/lifeline/ ( This site may be offline. ) )
Students will explore wetland hydrology and biology and decide whether or not to restore a wetland or retain dams and drainage systems.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Assessments, Activities:Project
Subject: Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Restoration/Reclamation, Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Management and Policy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review