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
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 ...

Assessing Tornado Wind Speeds from Damage Photographs part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday
Tornadoes are one of the most recognizable geoscience phenomena, with over 1000 tornadoes reported in the United States each year. In this classroom activity, students explore photographs of the damage that ...

Open Historical Geology Lab Manual part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2022:Program:Share-a-thon Session
I have generated the first draft of an open access lab manual for Historical Geology that includes 12 "investigations", which are a combination of skills training, guided inquiry and independent research. ...

Exploring Earth's Dynamic Systems part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
The Earth's Dynamic Systems Lab aims to illustrate the interconnectedness of Earth's systems by depicting global and local climate change variables, biogeochemical cycles, and natural versus ...

Tracking your Plastic Footprint part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Share-a-Thon
In this homework assignment, students are asked to track their plastic usage over one week by using an Excel spreadsheet (provided) and by making a 'plastic diary. A Google Sheets version of the spreadsheet ...

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 ...

3d model for visualizing earthquake focal mechanisms part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
Students use a transparent hemisphere and a rigid inset of two perpendicular planes. The inset represents the earthquake fault plane and auxiliary plane. The students use erasable whiteboard markers to trace the ...

Teaching about geologic structures with craft foam models and hands-on guided exploration activities part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Teaching Demonstrations:Friday
Classroom instruction on geologic structures often involves models demonstrated by the instructor, and/or student construction of paper or clay models. While these models can be useful for conceptual learning, ...

FossilSketch: a web-based program for learning about microfossils part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Teaching Demos:Tuesday
To enable instructors to integrate microfossil identification in their undergraduate courses, we developed FossilSketch, an interactive web-based educational tool that introduces students to micropaleontology and ...

Paleontologists for a Day part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Teaching Demos:Tuesday
This activity uses hands-on interaction with 3D-modeled fossils to guide students and educators through an exploration of critical geoscience concepts (deep time, paleoclimate, functional morphology, and ...