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This 60-page Environmental Decision-Making module is provided by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) and is part of the Technology and Environmental Decision-Making series. This module serves as an instructor resource for exploring the factors that go into decisions on...

This 72-page Nonpoint Source Water Contamination module was published by the Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC) and is part of the Technology and Environmental Decision-Making series. This module explores the interconnectivity of surface water systems and the resulting...

This lesson, from the Northern Wyoming Community College District, focuses on the geology of nonrenewable energy resources, including coal, oil, and oil shale. Over the course of the lesson students create a model of geological strata; compare and contrast the heat content and geologic structure of...

This lesson, created by JoAnn Flejszar, allows students to trace the steps of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle beginning with the mining process, and ending when the fuel rods are ready to be loaded into the fuel assembly for use in a nuclear reactor. Using real-life examples from China, India, and France –...

This website, from the program On the Cutting Edge - Strong Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching, focuses on metacognition and its role in geoscience education. Metacognition, broadly, is defined as "thinking about thinking," and can help students monitor and adjust their own learning strategies to...

This page, from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), offers information on green infrastructure, or the use of "natural hydrologic features to manage water and provide environmental and community benefits." In addition to basic overviews of the green infrastructure and its social...

This website, the homepage for the Environmental Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, provides information on environmental issues to students, faculty, and staff. It also includes descriptions of campus learning experiences for students, assesses the environmental performance of the...

This video, provided by Virginia Geospatial Extension, is part of a series of 16 tutorial videos on using Lidar with ArcGIS Desktop. This tutorial demonstrates how to visualize Lidar data using ArcScene, one of the software applications of ArcGIS Desktop. This video runs 8:55 minutes in length. The...

In this 2-page activity, the from Advanced Technology Environmental and Energy Center (ATEEC), students determine where the water run-off from the school actually ends up and, in the process, learn about topographic maps and surveying equipment. This activity provides a real world application of the...

This lesson, developed by Cathy Grimes, demonstrates the creation, extraction, and refinement of crude oil, allowing students to follow the process from their local gas station and into their parents' cars. Developed for students at the fifth-grade level, this lesson teaches students to reproduce...