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A Beautiful Mind: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional Development, MathematicsA 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: 0A 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: 0A Short Selection of Advertisements
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, MathematicsAdvertisers constantly thrust quantitative information in our face. Product claims, store enticements, health benefits, and scor...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Accuracy and Precision Lab (with measurement and density)
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsIn this lab exercise, students practice correctly using measurement tools, recording data, calculating density, using significan...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Activity: Identifying a solid using density
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional DevelopmentEffective measurement techniques include the concept of measurement uncertainty. Students may make erroneous conclusions analyzi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Activity: 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: 0Air Has Matter
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis is a series of activities demonstrating that air has mass, takes up space, and can exert a force on objects enough to lift ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Air Is Matter
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, ChemistryThis is a series of investigations about air and its properties. How air exists all around us, and things it is capable of doing.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0An exploration of spring systems: Asking and answering quantitative questions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, PhysicsLaboratory activity on springs and simple harmonic motion that encourages creative development of experiments and clear presenta...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Are Nanobacteria Alive: Sample Socratic Questions
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Cells, Professional DevelopmentThis example Socratic questioning page provides an outline for leading a classroom discussion regarding whether or not nanobacte...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Are Viruses Alive: Sample Socratic Questions
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Cells, Professional DevelopmentThis example Socratic questioning page provides an outline for leading a classroom discussion regarding whether or not viruses a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Atoms and Molecules
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Physics, Atomic Structure, Professional DevelopmentBoth of these lessons are classroom activities that require students to build models that display understanding of atoms and mol...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Balloon Car Challenge
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a lab investigation where students design a balloon car to collect data about speed and velocity.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Balloon Racer Project
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Force & Motion, Professional DevelopmentThis activity enables students to apply concepts of 'newton's laws of motion' that are learned in class to a realworld situation...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Bioinformatics
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Cells, Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional DevelopmentThis exercise contains two interrelated modules that introduce students to modern biological techniques in the area of Bioinform...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Bubbles in Magmas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Science, Gases and Kinetic Theory, Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Professional Development 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: 0Bubbling Blobs
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Physics, Properties of Matter, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a lab project where students observe what happens when you try to mix oil and water. It can also be used to wor...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Budget Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceStudents often come to a principles course in economics with knowledge that is not correct. This example asks students to guess ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Building Big Educator's Guide Mini-Activity Human Arch, Forces
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, PhysicsThis classroom activity where students physically show where the forces are in an arch.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Calculate the molarity of lemonade solutions
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Professional Development, Chemistry, Chemical Reactions & StoichiometryA lab where students determine the molarity of sugar and citric acid in samples of lemonade.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0