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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkActivity: 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalking on Water--How Do Water Striders Do It?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Chemistry, Properties of Matter, Solution Chemistry and 3 additional..This activity provides students with a first look at water tension and its role in the life of a water strider.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring molecular movement: does temperature matter?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Instructional Strategies, Heat & Thermodynamics, PhysicsThis is a teacher demonstration used to show an example of kinetic molecular energy using food coloring and water. The students ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Maine Turnpike Toll Discounts
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceThis is a very short case about a coupon experiment on the Maine Turnpike that can be used very early in Micro Principles course...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRescuing the Aral Sea: use of Case Method
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Economics and 2 additional..A case based upon the environmental devastation of the Aral Sea that illustrates economic concepts of opportunity cost and socia...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToo many deer? A public hearing
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural Resources, American Democracy, Professional Development and 4 additional..Students reenact a public hearing to determine how to manage a deer herd that is overpopulated.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRetinitis pigmentosa: Genetic Eye Disease
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Biochemistry, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Structure and Function in Living Things and 2 additional..By examining the progress of a genetic eye disease, students learn about eyes, genetic disorders, and neurons in this case desig...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRecycle -- or not? A case from New York City
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceA case for the analysis of externalities (social costs and benefits) in the context of recycling. Drawn from a program in New Yo...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPerfect Competition: A Context Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceStudents find the profit-maximizing level of output for a perfectly competitive firm and check the shut-down condition for two d...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImperfect Competition: Context-Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis context-rich problem helps students to apply the characteristics of imperfect competition to a real world setting.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGame Theory Context-Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis consists of a short essay to be written by students after watching the West Wing episode "Hartsfield's Landing." In it, stu...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarginal Analysis Context-Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsIn this problem, students consider the benefits of reduced tray usage in school cafeterias by comparing the cost savings of havi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkContext Rich Problem: Changes in Demand
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceContext Rich Problem on demand shifters and the implications of such a shift.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkContext-rich problem for cooperative group problem solving - Electric Force
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, PhysicsContext-rich problem for electrostatics in an introductory physics class. The instructional setting uses cooperative group probl...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExcise Tax Incidence: Context Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsContext Rich Problem using the concepts of excise tax incidence, elasticity of demand, and elasticity of supply. Students must d...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkContext Rich Problem: Price Ceiling
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social Sciencecontext rich problem on price ceilingsContributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing PhET simulations in a large lecture class The Photoelectric Effect
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Light, Sound & Other Waves, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, PhysicsThis activity provides a complete curriculum for teaching the photoelectric effect using the PhET Photoelectric Effect simulatio...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking Rational Decisions in Economics - The Role of Sunk and Marginal Costs
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis JiTT exercise uses a real-life example to pose a question to students about the nature of "rationality" as typically used i...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJiTT - Fighting Recession: 2009
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis is a JiTT exercise in which students apply introductory-level macroeconomic analysis to the question of how large the stimu...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHas Our Knowledge of Neuroscience Led to Ethical Dilemmas?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesThis is a lesson dealing with a new subdivision of bioethics called neuroethics. As our knowledge of the brain and nervous syste...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0