Deep Sea Microbes Jigsaw part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity will help students to explore characteristics of microbes that live in the deep sea. This activity can be conducted as a jigsaw or research project, and can be used with face-to-face, remote, and ...

Adopt a Microbe! - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity is a Google Slide playlist that will introduce students to microbes that can be found in deep sea sediments, and what roles they play in their environment. This playlist is suitable for use in remote ...

Ocean Circulation Playlist part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity is a Google Slides playlist that will introduce fluctuations in thermohaline circulation, and potential impacts of changes in these patterns. This playlist is suitable for use in remote, hybrid, or ...

Secrets of the Sediments - Digital Adaptation part of IODP School of Rock 2020:Teaching Activities
This activity is a Google Slide playlist. Students will analyze data from sediments collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, California to determine whether this information can be used to study historical climate ...

Are You Going to Eat That? part of EarthLabs for Educators:Fisheries
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar and Sarah L Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Students begin this investigation with an introduction to the types of ...

Lab 3: Building a Reef part of EarthLabs for Educators:Corals
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives During this lab, students learn about the life cycle of corals, including how they grow ...

Lab 6: Using Data to Identify Hot Spots and Predict Bleaching Events part of EarthLabs for Educators:Corals
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar and Sarah Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Under certain environmental stresses, zooxanthellae algae will vacate ...

Coastal Erosion Online Discussion part of Online Teaching:Activities for Teaching Online
This assignment is designed to get students to see the application of geology to a local problem, coastal erosion along the Lake Erie shoreline. I think the strength of this assignment is that many of the students ...

Lab 4: Finding Coral's Ideal Environment part of EarthLabs for Educators:Corals
The lab activity described here was created by Erin Bardar and Sarah Hill of TERC for the EarthLabs project. Summary and Learning Objectives Corals, like other living animals, require a particular range of ...

Introduction to Oceanography part of Online Teaching:Online Courses
This is an online, introductory course in Oceanography, introducing physical, geological, chemical, and biological Oceanography to general education students. Students read the text book and take quizzes. Each week ...