How Many and What Location did M5.0 or Larger earthquakes Occur During a Four-Day Period? part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Every week, numerous potentially damaging earthquakes occur around the world. To demonstrate the frequency geography of these earthquakes, you will use U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY's Earthquake Tracker, an online ...

Surface Feature Identification part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Students are provided the latitude and longitude of various locations and asked to identify the river stage or surface water deposition/erosional feature.

Earthquake Hazards Around You part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Students chose a room where they spend a significant amount of time. Next, they assess the room for earthquake hazards, create a map depicting where these hazards are located, and finally, describe what would ...

Digital poster of rocks and minerals part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
This project is designed based on 21st century skills and to help students engage in, experience, explore and evolve science. As a part of the activity students create a digital poster (infographic) using free ...

Having Students Create an Online Discussion Board Forum: Recent Oceanographic Info in the News & A Beautiful Question part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
An online Discussion Board Forum is a great tool for facilitating student interaction. If done well, discussion boards not only deepen learning, they can also build class community, an essential element for ...

Investigating Oceanographic Issues and Solutions part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Students explore an oceanographic issue and solutions in a discussion post (text or video), and provide critical analysis.

GigaPan Virtual Field Trip part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
The GigaPan Virtual Field Trip is used as a pre and post assessment of student understanding of basic physical geology concepts and processes. Students are directed to a GigaPan image of Peyto Lake, Banff National ...

Optics Lab part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
In this activity, students will calculate the index of refraction of water by measuring the angles of incidence and refraction of light as it passes from air to water. They will follow directions to set up the ...

Scientific method and historical precipitation part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
In this activity, you will use the scientific method and secondary data to build a dataset and answer the following question: Is Ohio getting wetter or drier? In order to answer this question, you will follow these ...

Create a screencast part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Students create a Power Point presentation on a topic of their choice. Then they make this presentation into a screencast using the free program, called Jing. The students do this by narrating their Power Point ...