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Using an Observatory Project to Develop Professional Communication in Astronomy
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, 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: 0Phylogenetics problems
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationStudents receive information about cladistics and apply this phylogenetic approach to two problems, collecting data, determining...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Gene expression during development: Experimental design problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Science, Life Sciences, BiochemistryThis problem challenges students to design experiments using techniques measuring gene expression (reverse transcriptase PCR, mi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Gleevec and the cell cycle problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Science, Life Sciences, BiochemistryStudents 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: 0RNA processing and northern blot technique problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Science, Life Sciences, BiochemistryStudents 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: 0Inventing and Testing Models: Using Model-Eliciting Activities
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematicsby 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: 0Judging a Paper Airplane Contest
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsThis 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: 0Creating a Spam Filter
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsThis 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: 0Judging Airlines
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsThis 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: 0Identifying a Theft Suspect
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsThis 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: 0Measuring Study Effectiveness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, MathematicsThis model-eliciting activity challenges students to operationally define a construct (study effectiveness). Students are given ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Investigating Isotopes and Average Atomic Mass Using Pennies
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Atomic Structure, PhysicsIsotopic 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: 0Virtual Inquiry Field Lesson
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural ResourcesThe 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: 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: 0Density Isostasy and Topography
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesDensity, Isostasy, and Topography Anne Egger, Stanford University The original activity Density, Isostasy, and Topography alread...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0How Much Water Is In Crater Lake?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesSpreadsheets 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: 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: 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: 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: 0Investigating the Effects of Density and Volume of a Cartesian Diver
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Properties of Matter, PhysicsThis 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: 0