Sage Hen Flat fieldcamp/capstone activity part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This activity attempts to simulate the process of field-based science investigation for the Sage Hen Flat area of the White Mountains, California. The Sage Hen Flat pluton is Jurassic in age and intrudes ...

Geological Mapping of Ghost Ranch, New Mexico part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This is useful as a first field mapping exercise (virtual) in a traditional capstone field camp course. Students will map flat-lying, but faulted Mesozoic strata near Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Skills required in ...

Virtual Field Trip to the Cagles Mill Outcrop, Indiana part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
During this virtual field trip students will write sedimentary facies descriptions, draw a stratigraphic column, and develop a set of paleogeographic maps of the Cagles Mill Spillway outcrop. This site is a ...

Mars Virtual Field Camp: Geologic Mapping of Jezero Crater part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This virtual capstone field mapping project is centered around geologic mapping of Jezero crater, Mars and is composed of six modules and four synchronous live online lectures. Students work in mapping groups (of ...

Elementary GLOBE Clouds Module part of CLEAN Collection

A suite of hands-on activities to give students the opportunity to describe the shape and appearance of clouds and learn the types of weather that are associated with clouds. The module includes ...

How does light travel? part of CLEAN Collection

This activity includes two experiments that explore shadows and light and how mirrors can demonstrate how light travels.

NASA S'COOL Lesson: Comparing Rainfall part of CLEAN Collection

This lesson has students measure, track, and compare rainfall amounts at their home, at their school, and local area over a period of time by constructing their own rain gauges. Instructor plots ...

NASA S'COOL Lesson: Clouds - A Multidisciplinary Study part of CLEAN Collection

Included in this lesson are opportunities to weave cloud study into Science, Language Arts, and Math. This lesson includes a demonstration of cloud formation, data collection and analysis of air ...

Hurricane Katrina part of CLEAN Collection

In this problem-based learning module, students research and report on Hurricane Katrina, using an earth systems science analysis approach.

Exploring the Water Cycle part of CLEAN Collection

In this lesson, students will learn about the water cycle and how energy from the sun and the force of gravity drive this cycle.