How to set up and run the experiments within a high school classroom (8.4 MB pdf)
Mary Ellsworth, an experienced high school teacher and Presidential Teaching Award winner, wrote this as a guide for other teachers.
How to set up and run the experiments within a college classroom
Watch Faults grow Before Your Very Eyes,(11 MB pdf) published in the Journal of Geoscience Education, was written by a researcher and a professor at the University of Massachusetts- Amherst, Mario Del Castello and Michele Cooke
Sandbox Experiments (9 MB pdf) by Michele Cooke and Mario Del Castello was written for high school teachers but may work better as a guide for post-secondary classrooms.
Erosion and Mountain Building: The Growth of Lazy Mountains, Mario Del Castello, (PDF 2.6 MB)
Extension and Contraction Activity sheets (doc) that can be used at any level of instruction
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Instructional Videos in American Sign Language with captioning
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Descriptions of Some Advanced Experiments
- erosion of one half of the sand wedge (.pdf)
- varying friction below the sand wedge (.pdf)