Ocean currents and overflows part of Teaching Activities
Stefanie Semper, University of Bergen
We are researchers and teachers in physical oceanography. Here we provide a lesson plan including materials, to explore ocean currents and specifically "underwater waterfalls", i.e., overflows in the ...

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 ...

Introduction to circuits and Arduino coding part of Teaching Activities
Lauren Sahl, Maine Maritime Academy; Barbara Fleck, Maine Maritime Academy; Sarah O'Malley, Maine Maritime Academy
This activity guides students through making a simple circuit and writing a simple Arduino sketch (code) to make some LEDs blink. It precedes a lab where students build a temperature sensor, and could be used prior ...

Snow Avalanches part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Alessandro Zanazzi
In this activity, students have to select the most convenient backcountry ski route to climb a peak located near Brighton ski resort (Utah). In order to select the route, they have to evaluate the information ...

Activity 7: Limitations of Systems Diagrams part of Teaching Activities
Cameron Weiner, Middlebury College
This activity teaches students about the value of planning, knowing, and explaining the limitations of a systems diagram. Students are taught to follow the following four steps when assessing the limitations of a ...

Modeling Mono Lake's Water Balance part of Teaching Activities
Phil Resor, Wesleyan University; Gregory Hancock, College of William and Mary
In this activity students build a hydrologic model of Mono Lake in MATLAB and then use the model to evaluate the California State Water Board's 1994 decision regulating diversions from the watershed and ...

Seismic Design Competition part of Teaching Activities
Eric Hultgren, Wheaton North High School
This project is a modified version of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Student Leadership Council's Seismic Design Competition. This project has teams of students work to research, plan, build and ...

Geologic Issues: Community Impacts and Science Communication part of Teaching Activities
Linda Reinen, Pomona College; Karen Kortz, Community College of Rhode Island
Responding to the need for recruitment and retention of a diverse geoscience population, we developed a capstone homework assignment for use in introductory-level geoscience courses. This is a place- and ...

Simulating Satellite Orbits and Atmospheric Drag part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
Delores Knipp
Physics students are intrigued by activities in space. To link this natural curiosity with solid problem-solving skills, we developed a spreadsheet simulation for satellites moving through an atmosphere of variable ...

Developing a Sense of Place with Pre-service Science Teachers part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Andrew Gilbert, The Evergreen State College
The lesson content focuses on designing investigations concerning the notion of scale through a series of investigations on their campus. The overarching goal is to foster a connection to the earth through an investigation of the local environment.