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 ...

Tracking Groundwater Pollution part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
This is a teaching module presenting an introduction to modeling ground water pollution, directed to undergraduate students in applied mathematics. It begins with a brief discussion of Darcy's law concerning ...

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 ...

Websites for Teaching and Learning Identification of Minerals and Rocks in Introductory Physical Geology part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
An abundance of digital media that exhibit minerals and rocks are available online. However, most of these media have not been designed and produced for typical laboratory-based learning activities and objectives ...

Global Warming: A Zonal Energy Balance Model part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
This is a teaching module, directed to undergraduate students in applied mathematics, that presents a Zonal Energy Balance Model to describe the evolution of the latitudinal distribution of Earth's surface ...

Using the seawater toolbox part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
In this lab, students learn to use the matlab seawater toolbox and use this tool to test a number of things that I have asserted to them in class with regard to the contribution of temperature and potential ...

Working with Scientific Data Sets in Matlab: An Exploration of Ocean Color and Sea Surface Temperature part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Click to watch Andrew Fischer discuss his activity or watch the full webinar.Remote sensing is a ...

Volcanology part of GeoContext:GeoContext Collection
× Contributor: Ery C. Hughes This set of GeoContext slides addresses the colonialist motivations of European settlement of volcanic regions, and the effects of colonial power and indigenous knowledge on the ...

Isostasy and crustal thickness part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Students will write a matlab code to calculate crustal thickness of 5 locations. Calculations will use topography (determined by running a matlab script that creates a clickable map) and nominal density values, and ...