Snow Avalanches part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
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 ...

SSBW - Python Tutorial 4: Introduction to ObsPy part of Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using the basic syntax of Python commands, 2) use the functionality of the ObsPy library to load, plot, and analyze data or ...

QTQt: Beyond the User Manual part of Teaching Activities
This module works through a series of prepared rock thermal history modeling activities using the freely available software package QTQt. In the first few activities, students will (i) learn how to build input data ...

SSBW - Jupyter Tutorial 1: Interacting with an Online Jupyter Notebook part of Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students 1) practice using basic Python syntax, 2) use a Jupyter notebook interface to interact with code created by someone else, 3) edit code ...

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 ...

Computational Course for Geology Majors - Seismology Component Outline part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Lecture and programming assignment topics for a new lower division computation course for Geology majors. Proposed seismology component, to last several weeks in a semester-long course.

Climate Toolkit: Resource Manual for Science and Action part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Share-a-Thon
The Climate Toolkit is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it ...

Spatial Visualization Strategies for Improving Student Understanding of the Elastic Rebound Theory of Earthquakes part of Teaching Activities
In this study we focus on the concept of elastic rebound, as recent studies have identified that student understanding of elastic rebound and how it causes earthquakes is often incomplete (Dolphin and Benoit, 2016; ...

SSBW - Linux Tutorial 2: Next Steps part of Teaching Activities
In this interactive tutorial built for a learning management system, students will 1) use a virtual machine to interact with a Linux command line environment, 2) redirect information to or from files, 3) use ...

Scaffolded exercises in the design of an ocean observing study for introductory undergraduates part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
This is a series of in-class worksheet activities which prompt students to design multiple ocean observing studies, each time using different tools, over the course of a quarter. Students are given the same ...