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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPartial Derivatives: Geometric Visualization
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentThis write-pair-share activity presents Calculus III students with a worksheet containing several exercises that require them to...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSymmetry and Tilings: An Exploration
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentStudents are directed to read through a Web-based tutorial on Symmetry and Tilings in the form of an short and colorful article ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMathematical Curve Conjectures
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn this activity, a six-foot length of nylon rope is suspended at both ends to model a mathematical curve known as the hyperboli...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRiemann Sums and Area Approximations
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentAfter covering the standard course material on area under a curve, Riemann sums and numerical integration, Calculus I students a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Large is a Ton of Rock? -- Thinking about Rock Density
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceSpreadsheets 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: Professional Development, ChemistrySpreadsheets 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, Mathematics, Professional Development, World History, California History (4th Grade)Spreadsheets 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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, CellsSpreadsheets 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: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkIndex Numbers: Gasoline and Inflation -- Why We Need the Consumer Price Index
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to examine the price of gasoline, 1978-2005. QL: using ratios...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: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & EcosystemsSpreadsheets 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: History-Social Science, Geography, Mathematics, 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: Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceSpreadsheets 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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, 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 / HyperLinkSimple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to tabulate, graph and compare the future value of investment...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: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space ScienceSpreadsheets 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: Life Sciences, Professional Development, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, ChemistrySpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkChemical Equilibrium -- What Are the Characteristics of Equilibrium Reactions?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Chemistry, Chemical Reactions & StoichiometrySpreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to compare the time course of a reaction that goes to complet...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAre Viruses Alive: Sample Socratic Questions
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Life Sciences, Professional Development, CellsThis 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: 0