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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Geospatial Thinking and the Digital Revolution part of Teaching Activities
Katherine Milla, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
In this exercise students watch a video and then participate in a think-pair-share activity. The activity is designed to stimulate reflection and discussion on the nature of geospatial data. The activity emphasizes ...

Reflection: Multiple Sources in Systems Diagrams part of Teaching Activities
Cameron Weiner, Middlebury College
In this activity, students reflect individually and as a class on the sources of information they used to create a systems diagram and why using multiple sources of information is important when creating systems ...

Inland water chemistry: the Nordic Lake Survey 1995 part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Tom Andersen, University of Oslo, Norway
While the ionic composition of surface seawater is basically the same anywhere in the world's oceans, the chemistry of inland waters can vary by orders of magnitude over short distances. In this activity we ...

Urban Wildlife Garden as a Pedagogical Tool for Environmental Studies part of Teaching Activities
Charu Sharma, Arden University
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Garden showcasing its eight habitats is used as a primary source for baseline environmental data collection, analysis and discussion. Basic concepts of biodiversity, ...

Is that true? part of Oceanography:Activities
Steve Hovan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus
Ask students to research the "truth" behind statements from recent news articles and provide their opinion about what is "true". These assignments can be done as often as the instructor feels ...