Lab 5: All About Air Pressure part of EarthLabs for Educators:Hurricanes
The lab activity described here was created by John McDaris of SERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Students select a storm from the HURDAT database and create its track in the ...

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 ...

Becoming Flood Resilient: Investigating Hydrology Through Hands-on Activities part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is offering an engaging professional development workshop for Earth Science teachers, focusing on a recently developed module that is centered around flooding phenomena. The ...

PANNING FOR "GOLD": HELPING STUDENTS EVALUATE WEB PAGES FOR CLASS USE part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Teaching Demos:Tuesday
It is not unusual for students to search the web for sources to use for their classes. It is also not unusual for some of those sources to be unacceptable for a variety of reasons. To help students recognize which ...

Inquiry-based modeling in Earth Science part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
Two activities are presented here, both using the Model-Based Inquiry method, in which students are introduced to a phenomenon, model an explanation, test those models with real scientific data, and share and ...

Identifying Ocean Basins part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2024:Program:Teaching Demos:Tuesday
In this multi-part activity students investigate the location, width, and depth of, as well bathymetric features present in, different ocean basins. They first explore elevation and bathymetric profiles that span ...

Paperless earthquake location part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Share-a-thon:Tuesday
Students are typically taught to locate earthquakes by deriving epicentral distances from S-P times. This activity replaces printed seismograms and travel time curves with Google Sheets/PowerPoint slides that they ...

A Middle School CER Argumentative Inquiry Lab as introduction to Relative Humidity part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2020:Program:Teaching Demonstrations
I will demonstrate a CER Argumentative Inquiry lab that helps students construct their own definition of the relationship between air temperature and the amount of water the atmosphere can hold.

Creating Paleontology Detectives in your Classroom with 3D Models of Fossils part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2023:Program:Teaching Demos:Friday
By using 3D models of fossils, you can excite students to learn about our natural world without worrying about financial cost or space.In this activity, students will deduce the identity of a 3D model mystery ...

A Toast to a Scientist - Celebrating Identity and Accomplishments part of Teaching Activities
To bring attention to a more inclusive population of scientists and to help students develop their own science identity, students are assigned to write a speech that could be given as a "toast" at an ...