Earthquake/Volcano Guided Research Project part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Students work collaboratively in triads to understand events associated with an historic earthquake, an historic volcanic eruption, and current techniques for monitoring one of the two natural disasters. After ...

Paleoclimate influence on landscape evolution part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
In this activity we work students through a series of simple activities that allow them to recognize modern landforms in Alaska as existing in a central PA landscape to conclude that at some time in the past PA ...

United Nations Environmental Summit part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Environmental geology is applied geology and being applied requires an understanding of all of the pieces of the puzzle. This activity is a culmination of many ideas learned in environmental geology: discussing the ...

Using Predictive Demos in an Oceanography 100 Online Course part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Physical demonstrations of physical processes are a key component of most geoscience courses and serve to help deepen student understanding of complex processes. How does one do this for online courses? I filmed ...

Measuring porosity part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
This activity consists in measuring the porosity of different soil types.

Drawing Disaster Impacts part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
In this activity, students work together in small groups to explore different natural hazards that are affected by anthropogenic influence, including storms, droughts, floods, fires and heatwaves. The group work is ...

Online Mapping of Ocean Floor and Coastline Change part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
The Exercise is a 2 part look at the configuration of the Atlantic Coast, specifically in New England. Using online mapping applications students create a cross section of the North Atlantic Ocean and explain the ...

GigaPan-based Exploration of Glaciers, Glaciogenic Landforms, Sediments, and Sedimentary rocks part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
This is a web-based exploration of GigaPan imagery that examines photographic imagery of glacial geomorphology, glaciogenic sediments, glaciogenic sedimentary rocks, topographic maps of both continental and alpine ...

Research Activities part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Towards the end of the course, I have students do 2 or 3 short writing pieces that look at topics that will require them to apply the concepts they have learned in class to a specific real world scenario. It is ...

Diagrams in an intro online Earth Science course part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Teaching About Earth Online Workshop:Activities
Online Earth Science offers a unique opportunity for students to engage in the creation of original diagrams for highly complex geoscience concepts. This activity consists of students creating 4 separate diagrams / ...