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 ...

Ocean currents and overflows part of Teaching Activities
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
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ocean Acidification/Acid Rain Demonstration with a Soda Stream part of Teaching Activities
Using a SodaStream or other household carbonation appliance to teach about acidification and its effects on the environment.

Coriolis Effect Activity part of Teaching Activities
The Coriolis Effect is the deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame. In oceanography, we are most interested in how the Coriolis Effect moves winds and ocean currents on the ...

Linking Earthquakes and Geologic Time by Paleoseismology part of Teaching Activities
In teaching general education Earth Science lecture, to make connections between separate topics I have created a paleoseismology activity that requires students to apply principles of relative geologic time to the ...