Interactive Anti-Harassment/Discrimination Training part of Teaching Activities
Michael Hubenthal, EarthScope
An interactive workshop designed to encourage a more inclusive geoscience culture that is resistant to harassment and discrimination by educating and empowering undergraduate students. The curriculum is targeted ...

Exploring ENSO through the El Niño/La Niña Slide Chart and Current Data part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
David Curry, Council Rock School District; Elizabeth Mills, American Meteorological Society
The past year has featured an active, warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, considered historically "strong". El Niño developed in early summer 2023, peaked in November, and persisted through ...

Ocean Acidification and Modern Extinctions part of Teaching Activities
Steve Wang, Swarthmore College
This lesson plan and lab activity is designed for middle school students and is intended to take two classes or lab periods. Students learn about pH, ocean acidification, and the connection to modern extinctions. ...

Lane's Stable Balance Demo and Activity part of Teaching Activities
Sharon Bywater-Reyes, University of Northern Colorado
This activity links to a 3D model of Lane's Balance that can be printed on a 3D printer and used in a demonstration and hands-on activity considering how channels respond to changes in driving and resisting ...

Building the Critical Zone part of Teaching Activities
Lily Eligator, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
Students construct their own model Critical Zones using mason jars and layered materials representing bedrock, saprolite, soil, and vegetation. As each layer is added, facilitators explain its function and ...

The Rock Cycle: building descriptive skills part of Teaching Activities
Alyssa Abbey, California State University-Long Beach
The goal of this activity is to have students become comfortable and adept at making observations about differences in rocks, describing those differences in a useful and meaningful way, and making connections with ...

Is this feedback loop positive or negative? part of Teaching Activities
Tim Shipley, Temple University; Kim Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Courtney Sheckler, Temple University; Alexandra Davatzes, Temple University
The Feedback Loop Sorting activity is designed to capture student understanding of feedback loops as a general causal pattern that can occur in various contexts throughout nature and in human-made systems. Students ...

Find the Feedback Loop part of Teaching Activities
Kim Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
This activity is designed build students' capacity to spot and analyze feedback loops that they encounter in real life, outside of school. Students read an instructor-provided article from the popular media ...

Using Causal Loop Diagrams to depict feedback loops part of Teaching Activities
Kim Kastens, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Causal loop diagrams (CLDs) are a form of graphic model used for depicting systems – especially systems involving feedback loops – by means of arrows and text nodes. This student activity provides introductory ...

High-Frequency Sensor Data Quality Control part of Project EDDIE:Teaching Materials:Activities
Jonathan Stetler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
There has been a substantial increase in the availability of high-frequency environmental data in recent years. The rapidly increasing amount of data generated by high-frequency sensors requires that ecologists ...