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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing PhET simulations in high school Open-ended Pendulum Labs
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Multimedia Presentation, Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesThese labs provide examples of using very open-ended questions to guide students in exploring a simulation and designing their o...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting your own activities - PhET Activity Guidelines
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Multimedia Presentation, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Education, Child Development & Family Services, PhysicsYou can create your own lectures, homework, and labs around any PhET simulation by using the PhET Activity Guidelines. These gui...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing PhET simulations to replace real equipment in lab Circuit Construction Kit
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Multimedia Presentation, Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesLabs and tutorials that use equipment such as circuits can be modified to use PhET simulations instead. Research shows that subs...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to Measurement (advanced high school/intro college level)
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development30-page illustrated guide to fundamentals of measurement. This is intended to be a clear, comprehensive overview of effective me...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLab: Horizontally Launched Projectiles (with uncertainty analysis)
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Force & Motion, Professional DevelopmentThis is a version of the time-tested lab where students roll a ball off a table top and use kinematics in two dimensions to try ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkActivity: Measure Your Reaction Time
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional DevelopmentThis is a lab activity that allows students to collect data to practice using effective measurement. While other authors have pr...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLab: Measuring the Speed of Sound in Air (with uncertainty analysis)
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Light, Sound & Other Waves, PhysicsStudents use a microphone and Vernier LabQuest to record the sound of a finger-snap echo in a 1-2 meter cardboard tube. Students...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lifestyle Project at the University of North Dakota
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..I use the Lifestyle Project in my Introduction to Environmental Issues class. This 3-week project asks students to make changes ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lifestyle Project at Malaspina University-College, British Columbia
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..The project is used in two courses, both with the theme of understanding the environmental implications of our use of energy, ex...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMedicine in the Body
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn this activity, we will explore how the dosage and frequency of a medicine taken affect the amount of medicine present in the ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Beautiful Mind: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Economics, History-Social ScienceA Beautiful Mind won the Academy Award for best picture in 2001 and it chronicles the life of John Nash who is noted for his pio...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Hudsucker Proxy: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Economics, History-Social ScienceThis film chronicles the introduction of the hula hoop, a toy that set off one of the greatest fads in United States history. Ac...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing Two Airlines
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityIn this model‚Äêeliciting activity (MEA), students are hired by a travel magazine to determine if two airlines that fly into Chi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResources for using PhET simulations in class PhET Activities Database
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Multimedia Presentation, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Life Sciences and 2 additional..The PhET Activities Database is a collection of resources for using PhET sims. It includes hundreds of lesson plans, homework as...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVarious Group Activities Using Learning Assistants
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Life Sciences, Earth & Space Science and 2 additional..Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants in Recitation Tutorials
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Chemistry, PhysicsUndergraduate Learning Assistants can be used to supplement the instructor and/or Teaching Assistant during recitations. They ma...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants in Oral Assessments
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Economics, History-Social ScienceUndergraduate Learning Assistants -- prepared to work productively with students -- have been used to facilitate ungraded, volun...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants to Support Peer Instruction with Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers")
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Life Sciences and 5 additional..Learning Assistants are used to facilitate student discussion in peer instruction during clicker questions (i.e., classroom resp...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEconModel
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Economics, History-Social ScienceThis site contains 21 modular, easy to use economic models, that are appropriate for class assignments or in-class demonstration...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOpen Outcry Market
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Economics, History-Social ScienceThis example is an in-class market simulation conducted with paper cards assigning each student a buyer or seller role and a res...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0