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Unit 2.6: Is heat always a dead end, or can it do something useful too?
Sandra Penny, Russell Sage College, and Natalie Bursztyn, University of Montana
Students focus on some thermodynamic aspects of energy: Heat, heat engines, and the second law of thermodynamics. We have already laid the groundwork for these concepts in Unit 2.3 (Energy Types and ...

Unit 2.2: Measuring and Analyzing Waves
Sandra Penny, Russell Sage College; Natalie Bursztyn, The University of Montana-Missoula
This unit follows up and reinforces the topics introduced in the previous unit (Unit 2.1) about waves and wave properties. Multiple scaffolded extension activities and lab exercises build on similar concepts with ...

Unit 2.4: Power
Sandra Penny, Russell Sage College
In this unit, students explore the relationship between energy and power when they design an experiment to measure and calculate their maximum power output by running up a staircase at a fast, medium, and slow ...

Unit 5.1: Introduction to flooding and the water cycle
Mark Abolins, Middle Tennessee State University; Karen Viskupic, Boise State University. Parts are based on InTeGrate activities by Manoj K. Jha, Ed Barbanell, Meghann Jarchow, and John Ritter.
Students learn about flooding by exploring the Internet, watching videos, and watching an in-class slide presentation. Unit 5.1 introduces the basic vocabulary and concepts of the water cycle, riverine flooding, ...

Unit 2.1: Recognizing plate boundaries
Karen Viskupic, Boise State University, based on Sawyer et al. (2005)
Students work individually to make observations about the distribution of earthquakes, volcanoes, topography, and the age of the sea floor from four maps, then work in small groups to synthesize their observations ...

Unit 1.2: Science and engineering practices
Karen Viskupic, Boise State University
In this module, students discuss what is and is not science and are introduced to the Science and Engineering Practices (SEP) of the NGSS. Students participate in a jigsaw activity in which they practice mapping ...

Unit 5.4 Heavy rainfall and landslides
Mark Abolins, Middle Tennessee State University
Students assume various roles (e.g., school superintendent) and use online maps to explore landslide hazards in Southern California. They examine the landslide problems from different perspectives, and they apply ...

Unit 4: Are You Prepared for Severe Weather?
Educational module for undergraduate Earth Science students covering severe weather preparedness through hands-on activities involving weather station design, meteorological data analysis, Excel/Google Sheets graphing, hurricane impact modeling, climate change connections, and campus/community risk assessment across seven structured subunits. auto-generated The author of this page didn't provide a brief description so this one sentence summary was created by an AI tool. It may not be completely accurate.

Unit 3.1: What's this rock I found? Is it valuable?
Beth Dushman, Howard Community College
In this unit, students will use hand samples or high-resolution images to observe, categorize, and identify some common minerals and rocks, with an emphasis on their role as economic resources. Hands-on activities ...

Unit 3.3: Formation and distribution of geological resources
Beth Dushman, Howard Community College
In this unit, students learn how some important geological resources form. They then use that knowledge and a series of maps to make predictions about where those resources might be forming today. Next, they use ...