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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvestigating Isotopes and Average Atomic Mass Using Pennies
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Atomic Structure, Physics, Professional DevelopmentIsotopic Pennies is an activity where students use what they have learned about isotopes and weighted averages to solve a new ch...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMeasuring Study Effectiveness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity challenges students to operationally define a construct (study effectiveness). Students are given ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIdentifying a Theft Suspect
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity (MEA) challenges students to develop a model for predicting the characteristics of a person who ha...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudging Airlines
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity (MEA) challenges students to develop ideas about center and variability when making decisions base...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating a Spam Filter
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional DevelopmentThis activity asks students to work in a team to develop a set of rules that can be used to program a SPAM filter for a client. ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudging a Paper Airplane Contest
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity has students determine how to create a fair judging scheme for a paper airplane contest while cons...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInventing and Testing Models: Using Model-Eliciting Activities
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional Developmentby Joan Garfield, Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler, University of Minnesota What are Model-Eliciting Activities? Model-Elicitin...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRNA processing and northern blot technique problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Biochemistry, Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesStudents are given a figure from a journal article of a northern blot, and are asked to interpret the results, demonstrating an ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGleevec and the cell cycle problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Biochemistry, Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesStudents are given a problem about a relatively new treatment for cancer, Gleevec, and asked to apply and synthesize what they h...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGene expression during development: Experimental design problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Biochemistry, Science, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis problem challenges students to design experiments using techniques measuring gene expression (reverse transcriptase PCR, mi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhylogenetics problems
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentStudents receive information about cladistics and apply this phylogenetic approach to two problems, collecting data, determining...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMalnutrition, DNA replication, development, and schizophrenia homework problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Biochemistry, Science, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentAt the beginning of a DNA, DNA replication, and mitosis unit, students are given a short science news article summarizing a rece...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing an Observatory Project to Develop Professional Communication in Astronomy
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Our Solar SystemThis is a comprehensive project using the Highland Road Park Observatory camera. This project encompasses the formal portions fo...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat sizes are the planets and how do they move around the sun?
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Our Solar System, Professional DevelopmentThis is a whole class activity in which the class will physically model how the planets move around the sun. I will have the bal...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Scissors and Shears
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThis case is the transcript of the 1962 Congressional Testimony of BC Deuschle, President of the Scissors, Shears and Manicure I...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Peanut Policy in the United States, 1996
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentThe text of this case is a transcript of a story broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered on January 22, 1996. The story concern...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Textiles and the Multi-Fiber Arrangement
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentAn "oldie but goodie" this 1983 case (revised in 1990), is set in December 1981, when the international arrangement governing in...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRevving up for Relief: Harley-Davidson at the ITC
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentPublished in 1986, this Kennedy School case tells the story of Harley-Davidson's application to the ITC for temporary relief fro...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudging Randomness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Mathematics, Probability, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity has students create rules to allow them to judge whether or not the shuffle feature on a particula...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's the best payment?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Economics, Instructional Strategies, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentAfter predicting which of two earnings streams has the highest currrent value, students use a discounted values table to compare...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0