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Are Nanobacteria Alive: Sample Socratic Questions
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Life Sciences, 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: 0Bioinformatics
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, 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: 0Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test: Experiments and Inference about Cause
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisThe Coke vs. Pepsi Taste Test Challenge has students design and carry out an experiment to determine whether or not students are...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating oranges - How many sections are inside?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis is an investigative lab to provide students with an opportunity to practice observation skills and develop cooperative grou...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Bubbles in Magmas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Gases and Kinetic Theory, Chemistry, Science 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: 0Microbiology in Jeopardy
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Cells, Life Sciences, Earth's Resources, Science and 4 additional..This group learning activity involves students in an engaging review of concepts of microbiology. The review is set up as a powe...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Collecting and Identifying Rocks
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentIn this Earth Science activity, students will investigate rocks in an outdoor field trip. Students will be divided into groups a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0String Scientific Notation/Metric System Demonstration
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Mathematics, Physics, Life Sciences and 3 additional..Short demonstration on scientific notation by asking students to place numbers on a number line using string and notecards.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Making Observations and Drawings
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is designed to help students understand the importance of observations in science. It encourages them to work on t...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Do all types of lights follow Ohm's Law?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional DevelopmentIn this physics lab students will investigate whether Ohm's Law applies to common electric devices (incandescent light bulbs and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Energy Flow through Organisms: An Introduction to Photosynthesis and Respiration
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Cells, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 4 additional..This classroom activity introduces students to energy flow through organisms, producers & photosynthesis, and consumers & respir...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Introduction to the Milk Weed Ecosystem
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an inquiry and field study based. Students will be trying to observe, document, compare, contrast, and communic...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating the Effects of Density and Volume of a Cartesian Diver
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Properties of Matter, Physics, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an inquiry investigation where students gather data on why the Cartesian diver sinks or floats. They then devel...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Rotational Inertial Using Tops
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an investigation regarding rotational inertia and factors that affect it.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Slow the Ball
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentStudent small group physics challenge. Engaging and challenging.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Electrical Analysis of Wind Power
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional DevelopmentFor this experiment, students use a DC motor as a generator and various shaped turbine designs to test which design produces the...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0How Much Water Is In Crater Lake?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, 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: 0Density Isostasy and Topography
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentDensity, Isostasy, and Topography Anne Egger, Stanford University The original activity Density, Isostasy, and Topography alread...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0States of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity models the states of matter and students investigate those states with a balloon/straw rocket.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Virtual Inquiry Field Lesson
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentThe use of new technological motion sensing cameras creates a motivation for students in this life science lesson.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0