Community-Lessons & Labs

We have developed a good lab manual that ships with our Em2 and Em3 models.

Emriver Lab Manual for the Em2 and Em3 that comes with your model.

Archive Emriver Lab Manual for Em2 models shipped before October 2010

Emriver users worldwide have developed some fantastic materials for teaching with our models. Here are some of our favorites. Contact us if you have something you’d like to share!

Stream Table Lesson Packet for grades 3-6 developed by Jennifer Guarino, Ecotone Education, and Larry Kasden, Ottauquechee Natural Resources Conservation District, ONRCD

Watershed on Wheels Environmental Education Program: Lessons by Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge and the Vermont Institute of Natural Science: Teach basic principles of river geomorphology, introduce vocabulary, review or introduce how water cycles through the environment, understand and explore how a river has formed since the last Ice Age, explore the concept of a watershed and properties of erosion.

Stream Table Lab for Environmental Geology 101 and follow-up lab

Planetary studies; surface processes on Mars

Lab: Introduction to applied fluvial geomorphology in stream ecology using the Emriver Em2. Teaching concepts include sediment transport process, continuity, river long profiles, adjustment to disturbance, influence on fish habitat.

On the Cutting Edge – Strong Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching, a program by the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT). Includes resources to help professors improve their teaching of the geosciences.

The Vermont Agencies of Natural Resources, in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Transportation, developed the Rivers and Roads Program using the Emriver Em2 streamtable to explain how rivers work and how to design, construct, and maintain roads and bridges to create greater river stability and more flood-resilient transportation infrastructure. See the Training packet courtesy of Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation