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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Large is a Ton of Rock? -- Thinking about Rock Density
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to calculate the edge length of cubes and diameter of sph...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRadioactive Decay and Popping Popcorn -- Understanding the Rate Law
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to forward model an example of exponential decay and inte...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Large is the Great Pyramid of Giza? -- Would it make a wall that would enclose France?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, World History, California History (4th Grade), Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students calculate the volume of the Great Pyramid and, following Napoleon, estimate ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSerial Dilution: Tracking Bacterial Population Size and Antibiotic Resistance
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Cells, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to calculate and compare bacterial population sizes from ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEarthquake Magnitude: How Can We Compare the Sizes of Earthquakes?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to tabulate and graph seismic wave amplitude and energy r...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Healthier You: Modeling a Healthier Weight from Dietary Improvement and Exercise
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students calculate the number of days it takes for participants in a hypothetical wei...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPredator-Prey Interactions -- Modeling the Number of Fishers and Porcupines in New Hampshire
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets to model and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Far is Yonder Mountain? -- A Trig Problem
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Geography, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use Polya's problem-solving heuristic to find the distance of a peak using v...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEarth's Planetary Density: Constraining What We Think about the Earth's Interior
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to forward calculate the Earth's aggregate density from c...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs It Hot in Here? -- Spreadsheeting Conversions in the English and Metric Systems
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences, Chemistry and 2 additional..Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module/Introductory chemistry course. Students build spreadsheets to examine unit conversions bet...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVacation! How Long and How Far? -- A Geological Circuit of National Parks in the Colorado Plateau
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, History-Social Science, Economics, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students estimate travel times and costs of a drivin...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCalibrating a Pipettor
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Life Sciences, Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity. In advance of an actual lab activity, students virtually simulate the calibration o...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBubbles in Magmas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Gases and Kinetic Theory, Earth & Space Science, Chemistry and 2 additional..SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build a spreadsheet and apply the ideal gas law to model the velocity of a bubble ris...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Much Water Is In Crater Lake?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate an answer from a bathymetric map ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0