Ideas for World Wind Geology- Envimoental Science labs

woodse · 05-09-2007, 03:23 AM

As the school year comes to an end I am looking at putting together the labs I have made this year that use World Wind into a packet that can easily get distributed and used by other teachers. As the class I teach is very California based (since that is where the school I teach at is located) I skip some geological or environmental concepts that could be more useful to a general audience. I am targeting high school age and intro level college.

I was wondering if people had some ideas of additional labs to create this summer that would fill out the curriculum, so that a "World Wind Lab book" could be created (hopefully with add-ons, word files and web links).

The labs I have made are at
http://www.worldwindclassroom.com/WorldWind/Labs/labshome.htm

woodse · 05-09-2007, 04:22 PM

Here is what I have so far

Planatary Comparision - introduction to World Wind, basic appearance of land surfaces of different planets, forces driving landscape

Plate tectonics

Volcanism
Volcanic land forms
Hawaain Volcano chain evolution

Mass wasting

River geomorphology and gradient

Earthquakes
Occurance
aftershocks
landforms

TomServo · 05-09-2007, 05:15 PM

Hmm.. something on flood plains / zones? Count the number of valcanoes in Southern New Mexico? (If I had know there was a huge volcanoe field 20 miles south of where I was going to school.. would have gone down there)

dwilhelmCSC · 05-11-2007, 07:14 PM

You could probably pull up some cool imagery of sedimentary landforms, anticlines and synclines, flood plain mapping (Tom's Idea), alluvial fans, aeolian transport examples (sand dunes, loess etc... There are some great locations in Michigan and the SW for that kind of thing), glacial landforms, and maybe island chains (hot spots). There's probably a lot more than that, but that's all I got for now.

~DW

05-09-2007, 03:23 AM	#1
woodse A Really Nice Guy Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 70	Ideas for World Wind Geology- Environmental Science labs As the school year comes to an end I am looking at putting together the labs I have made this year that use World Wind into a packet that can easily get distributed and used by other teachers. As the class I teach is very California based (since that is where the school I teach at is located) I skip some geological or environmental concepts that could be more useful to a general audience. I am targeting high school age and intro level college. I was wondering if people had some ideas of additional labs to create this summer that would fill out the curriculum, so that a "World Wind Lab book" could be created (hopefully with add-ons, word files and web links). The labs I have made are at http://www.worldwindclassroom.com/WorldWind/Labs/labshome.htm Last edited by woodse; 05-09-2007 at 04:18 PM.

05-09-2007, 05:15 PM	#3
TomServo God. Root. What is difference? Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Eastern Pennsylvania Posts: 2,847	Hmm.. something on flood plains / zones? Count the number of valcanoes in Southern New Mexico? (If I had know there was a huge volcanoe field 20 miles south of where I was going to school.. would have gone down there) __________________ Earth is Square blog PUBLIC NOTICE AS REQUIRED BY LAW: Any use of this forum post, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the universe. Although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will ultimately lead to the heat death of the universe.

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05-09-2007, 04:22 PM	#2
woodse A Really Nice Guy Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 70	Here is what I have so far Planatary Comparision - introduction to World Wind, basic appearance of land surfaces of different planets, forces driving landscape Plate tectonics Volcanism Volcanic land forms Hawaain Volcano chain evolution Mass wasting River geomorphology and gradient Earthquakes Occurance aftershocks landforms

05-11-2007, 07:14 PM	#4
dwilhelmCSC Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 52	You could probably pull up some cool imagery of sedimentary landforms, anticlines and synclines, flood plain mapping (Tom's Idea), alluvial fans, aeolian transport examples (sand dunes, loess etc... There are some great locations in Michigan and the SW for that kind of thing), glacial landforms, and maybe island chains (hot spots). There's probably a lot more than that, but that's all I got for now. ~DW

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