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 ...

Introduction to circuits and Arduino coding part of Teaching Activities
This activity guides students through making a simple circuit and writing a simple Arduino sketch (code) to make some LEDs blink. It precedes a lab where students build a temperature sensor, and could be used prior ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Find the Feedback Loop part of Teaching Activities
This activity is designed build students' capacity to spot and analyze feedback loops that they encounter in real life, outside of school. Students read an instructor-provided article from the popular media ...

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 ...

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. ...

"Reef Survivor" Board Game - University Edition part of Teaching Activities
"Reef Survivor" is an educational board game that can be used as an active learning tool in a class or lab. The educational objective is to teach players about ecology, evolution, and environmental ...

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 ...