Writing Assignment for Marine Biology part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Anthony Santorelli, Anne Arundel Community College
Students write about the important aspects of a species of sea life, including physical characteristics, habitat, behaviors and interaction with humans and also provide a video that addresses that sea life along ...

Oceanography Virtual Field Trips part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Jennifer Nelson, Purdue University-Main Campus
Students explore online data, maps, webcams, and articles from specific US locations to understand and visualize the oceanographic phenomena of that location. Through the worksheet, students will learn to explore ...

Unit 2: Soil Characteristics and Their Relationship to Land Use Practices part of A Growing Concern
Hannah Scherer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ; Martha Murphy, Santa Rosa Junior College; Sarah Fortner, Carleton College
In a hands-on exploration, students will learn to describe and quantify the porosity and permeability of soil models representative of both agricultural and natural environments. Students will use this information ...

Adopt a Microbe! - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
Molly Ludwick, Kings Mountain Middle School; Beverly Owens, Cleveland Early College High School
This activity is a Google Slide playlist that will introduce students to microbes that can be found in deep sea sediments, and what roles they play in their environment. This playlist is suitable for use in remote ...

A Penny For Your Thoughts: An Exercise in Taphonomy part of Teaching Activities
Robert Gastaldo, Colby College
Physical and chemical (biostratinomic) processes that operate on an entity prior to its burial and incorporation into the fossil record ultimately influence how it is interpreted by a researcher when collected and ...

Physico-chemical Oceanographic data analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Most Israt Jahan Mili, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
This activity is a part of the course that can be used for either physical oceanography (CTD data profiling) or chemical oceanography lab exercise. This is included with the real-time field sampling data that was ...

Global Warming: A Zonal Energy Balance Model part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Victor Padron, Normandale Community College
This is a teaching module, directed to undergraduate students in applied mathematics, that presents a Zonal Energy Balance Model to describe the evolution of the latitudinal distribution of Earth's surface ...

Assessing the Impact of Ocean Acidification on Reef Building Corals part of Teaching Activities
Elizabeth Crook, University of California-Irvine
This activity introduces students to an actual data set that explores the impacts of ocean acidification on tropical coral reef ecosystems. Students are first given a scenario for a field site in the Caribbean and ...

Contrails or Chemtrails? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Blair Larsen, Utah State University
Using multi-media and basic atmospheric physics, students investigate contrails and chemtrails. Students apply previous learning about pseudoscience, and couple that with an understanding of the atmosphere to reach ...

Earthquake Hazards Around You part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Kelli Wakefield, Mesa Community College
Students chose a room where they spend a significant amount of time. Next, they assess the room for earthquake hazards, create a map depicting where these hazards are located, and finally, describe what would ...