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 ...

Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse – Field Trip 4 part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This ...

Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse – Field Trip 1 part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
The Mid-Atlantic Appalachian Orogen Traverse is a series of 4 virtual field trips that cross the Blue Ridge and Valley and Ridge geologic provinces in northwestern Virginia and northeastern West Virginia. This ...

Surviving Extinction, A Journey Through Time part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Explore prehistoric environments over the past 350 million years, make good decisions to avoid deadly predators, and discover real expedition sites as you chart your own path through time. 99% of all species that ...

Tidepooling Field trip (online) part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Tidepooling Field Trip online (developed for remote learning during COVID-19 pandemic); students will watch video and review photos to simulate a field experience as they explore Pillar Point tidepools (as they ...

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 ...

Magnetometry at home: a hands-on survey with your smartphone part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
Using a free app downloaded to their smartphone or tablet device students engage in collecting magnetic field data. Students have to design and document a survey, and are encouraged to do simple quality control. ...

Using StraboSpot for Field Sedimentology & Stratigraphy part of Cutting Edge:Enhance Your Teaching:Teaching with Online Field Experiences:Activities
This module uses StraboSpot (free mobile app for iOS and Android devices and web API, backend database) and two Utah datasets to facilitate teaching field methods related to sedimentology and stratigraphy. The data ...

Exploring Spreadsheets with Microsoft Excel part of Introductory Courses:Activities
This activity takes place in a laboratory setting and requires ~1.5-2 hours to complete. Students work with a large set of earthquake data, examine types of charts available in Excel, and use a spreadsheet to ...

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 ...