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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PIE-Phase Diagram Experiments part of Teaching Activities
Sarah Lambart, University of Utah
Three types of activities are proposed: (1) One short (15-20 min) in-class demonstration to introduce the concept of Eutectic. At this point, the students have no prior knowledge about phase diagram. (2) One full ...

Investigating Climate Change Impacts on Human Health with a Civic Lens part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Nancy Lane, Bellevue Community College
In this human biology module, students consider how climate change affects human health and the inequity of those impacts on some communities. They evaluate different perspectives on the issue and ways to address the issue by exploring case studies featured by StoryCorps, as well as peer-reviewed scientific literature, science magazines, government publications, and non-profit-based resources. Students then take the first step towards civic transformation - they talk with friends and families, telling their own story of how climate change is harming their health and the health of their communities.