In class, have students make a simple sketch of an outcrop shown in a slide (or computer projection) then discuss possible interpretations.

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In this in-class activity, students are challenged to identify rock units and geologic features and determine the relative ages of these features without prior instruction in the classical methods of relative age determination.

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Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding.
Students are shown this diagram and instructed to "Click within the layer that is entirely liquid."

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This Lecture Tutorial worksheet is designed for students to work on in groups after the students
have learned about basic surface features and how they relate to planets in general. The tutorial
is designed to help students look at these simple features and realize that they are not
independent features, but instead are related to the planet as a whole.

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This activity helps a student recognize the consequences of Type I and Type II errors in hypothesis testing.

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Slides for lecture on Effective Problem Solving from Springfield Technical Community College's Communications and Editing 1 (OIT-110) course. Taught by Professor Eileen Cusick. This lecture focuses on office-related issues that need immediate attention.

Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding.
Students are shown these diagrams and instructed to "Click in the river where you expect to find the greatest rate of erosion along the river bed."
A follow-up question asks students to "Click in the river where you expect to find the fastest moving water."

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The evolution of ideas is often ignored in the teaching of statistics. It is important to show students how definitions and formulas evolve. This activity describes a fairly straightforward activity of how measures of association can evolve.

This lesson is a presentation of famous scientist throughout history where the students will learn and take notes about the contributions and discoveries made in science.

This Lecture Tutorial worksheet guides students through thinking about the effects humans have on
infiltration, and how that effects the duration and severity of floods. It is designed to be used
in groups after a brief lecture introducing surface and ground water flow into a stream.

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After a short lecture, groups of students complete this Lecture Tutorial worksheet on the different
hypotheses of the function of Stegosaurus plates. The worksheet is designed so students examine
different lines of evidence, and they must choose the best interpretation(s).

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Students apply their understanding of sedimentary rocks and sediment characteristics to identify where rocks may be forming using a simplified cross-section of a landscape from mountain to sea.

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Images of faulted strata, tilted turbidites, and beach rocks bring the field into the classroom, giving students practice in doing what geoscientists do. These images are examples of geologic puzzles.

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Formative assessment questions using a classroom response system ("clickers") can be used to reveal students' spatial understanding.

Students are shown this diagram and instructed to "Click on the line where humans appeared on Earth." A follow-up question instructs students to "Click on the line where dinosaurs appeared on Earth."

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This module introduces students to the basic science of climate change, as well as the concepts of vulnerability and adaptation in the context of climate change in different regions of the world.

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Detailed, annotated example of Socratic questioning for topics of climate change, global warming, and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

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This activity is an interactive lecture, where students will learn that fresh water is a limited resource. They will also see that drinkable water is not distributed evenly over the earth.

Students examine a geologic map of the Grand Canyon and two imaginary vertical cores through canyon stratigraphy. They use these data to construct a cross-section across the canyon and to answer questions about the geology of the Grand Canyon.

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Graphical Just-in-Time-Teaching questions for use before classes in which students explore position, velocity and acceleration graphs.