Modeling Mono Lake's Water Balance part of Teaching Activities
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 ...

Activity 7: Limitations of Systems Diagrams part of Teaching Activities
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 ...

Virtual Landscapes Geological Mapping part of Teaching Activities
A virtual landscape is a virtual reality environment designed to develop geologic mapping and field skills. They include natural landscapes where the geology can be mapped, and interactive 3D block models of ...

Cretaceous Coastlines and Modern Voting Patterns part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× Contributor: Branson Becker This module examines the relationship between modern voting patterns in the American south and the geologic history of North America. The curve of the democratic ...

Geologic Issues: Community Impacts and Science Communication part of Teaching Activities
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 ...

Python Programming for Earth Science Students part of Courses
Computers are essential to all modern Earth Science research. We use them for compiling and analyzing data, preparing illustrations like maps or data plots, writing manuscripts, and so on. This class teaches how to ...

GeoContext: a social and political context for geoscience education part of GeoContext
× The GeoContext collection is a set of teaching modules developed by a team of educators to promote integration of topics on racism, colonialism, imperialism, environmental damage, and exploitation of ...

GeoContext Collection part of GeoContext
Browse the collection of GeoContext resources on a variety of topics. Preview slides and download Powerpoint files and companion guide documents. Cretaceous Coastlines and Modern Voting PatternsGlaciology, Race, ...

Colonialism and Racism in Early Oceanographic Expeditions part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× Contributors: Rehemat Bhatia, Sarah Greene, Laura Haynes This set of GeoContext slides addresses how the founding of the field of oceanography was entwined with British colonialism. The slides cover the ...

Meteorites part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× Contributor: Christine Yifeng Chen This set of GeoContext slides provides a cultural context to the historical discovery and research of meteorites. The slides focus on the overlooked history of the Cape ...