Jason Cervenec

Soup Can Water Budget part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
During this first of five activities, students use materials to create an apparatus and process to investigate the ultimate destination for water falling on a watershed. Students make quantitative measurements and ...

Exploring Polar Science - 4-H Project Book part of Teach the Earth:Teaching Activities
This 4-H project book includes a series of eight activities, focused on polar science, that youth can complete with an parent or mentor. Each activity includes a hands-on component and options for communication. ...

Antarctic Rock Boxes part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
The Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center offers no-cost Rock Boxes for use by educators in both schools and informal learning environments. Each box may be borrowed for one month and contains more than 30 ...

Large Scale Watershed - Battelle Darby Creek part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
This fourth of five activities expands the watershed examined from a schoolyard to a large drainage that cannot be viewed from one location. The activity includes an examination of changing land uses within the ...

Geo Sandbox Water Budget part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
During this second of five activities, the instructor introduces a miniature watershed, named a GeoSandbox. Students introduce known quantities of water to the GeoSandbox using spray bottles and measure the ...

Small Scale Watershed - Schoolyard part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
During this third of five activities, students are taken to an area of the schoolyard that is readily seen from one location. The surface area and slope are measured, the land use is noted, and students estimate ...

Land Use Change - Hellbranch Run part of NAGT:Our Resources:Teaching Resources:Teaching Materials Collection
This fifth activity in a series of five provides a detailed examination of one watershed within Central Ohio with a specific focus on water flow and additional water quality measurements such as total suspended ...

Climathon: Adapting the "hackathon" model to engage undergraduates, researchers, and members of the community in building climate resilience part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2021:Program:Oral Sessions:Oral Session II
To increase the diversity of students engaged in climate resilience, expose students to soft skills needed in the modern workplace, and facilitate dialogue between university researchers and community members, a ...

Exploring Earth's Atmosphere and Oceans Using the Fluid Earth Viewer part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2019:Program:Poster Sessions:Friday
Using open-source code and publicly available atmospheric and ocean model data sets, a team at The Ohio State University created the Fluid Earth Viewer (FEV), an interactive, intuitive, and visually appealing web ...

Reading History Within an Ice Core part of Earth Educators Rendezvous:Previous Rendezvous:Rendezvous 2016:Program:Poster Sessions:Thursday
During this activity, teams of students are provided with one of two varieties of simulated ice cores that showcase some of the components examined by scientists. After a few minutes of free exploration, students ...