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 ...

The Geo Journeys Project: A Summative Assessment That Uses Field Trip Design and StoryMaps to Enhance a Sense of Place in Petrology, Earth Materials, and Volcanology Courses part of Teaching Activities
This modular activity is meant to provide a practical reinforcement of petrology concepts as they're introduced during Earth Materials, Mineralogy, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, or Volcanology courses. ...

Introduction to MATLAB for Geomorphology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
This is a lab for a Geomorphology course intended to introduce students to modeling landform evolution by means of applying a common sediment transport law to the erosion of a hillslope over time. MATLAB is used to ...

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 ...

Working with Scientific Data Sets in Matlab: Intra-annual variability of Sea Surface Temperature and Data Interpolation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Sea surface temperature is a critical variable that determines biogeographic and distribution patterns of marine organisms. Changes in temperature influence species reproduction and survival and can affect the ...

From Source to Sink: How Sediment Reflects the Journey from the Mountains to the Sea part of MARGINS Data in the Classroom:Mini Lesson Collection 2014
This is one component of the Source to Sink Mini Lesson Set Continental margins are phenomenal places to study the modern sedimentary cycle because sediment in margin regions has been routed from mountains ...

Power of the Story: Interpreting oral histories part of Teaching Activities
This activity asks students to find a narrative that depicts a geologic event (preferably from non-dominant cultural oral histories) and interpret it applying the knowledge they have gained in class. This writing ...

Using Reflection Activities to Deepen Student Engagement part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Reflection activities on service-learning related to environmental restoration.

Developing a Sense of Place with Pre-service Science Teachers part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
The lesson content focuses on designing investigations concerning the notion of scale through a series of investigations on their campus. The overarching goal is to foster a connection to the earth through an investigation of the local environment.

Using Your Marbles: Making Energy Work for You part of Earth and Space Science:Summer 2010:Activities
potential energy, kinetic energy, work