Displaying 61-80 of 250 resources
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to the Milk Weed Ecosystem
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnergy Flow through Organisms: An Introduction to Photosynthesis and Respiration
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Cells, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDo 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking Observations and Drawings
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkString Scientific Notation/Metric System Demonstration
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Mathematics, Chemistry 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollecting and Identifying Rocks
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesIn 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBubbles in Magmas
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geology & the Dynamic Earth, Science, Professional Development, Gases and Kinetic Theory 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvestigating 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCoke vs. Pepsi Taste Test: Experiments and Inference about Cause
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, MathematicsThe 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBioinformatics
Grades: 6 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life SciencesThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAre Nanobacteria Alive: Sample Socratic Questions
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAre Viruses Alive: Sample Socratic Questions
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Cells, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChemical Equilibrium -- What Are the Characteristics of Equilibrium Reactions?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Chemical Reactions & Stoichiometry, ChemistrySpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkCalibrating a Pipettor
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Life SciencesSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkVacation! How Long and How Far? -- A Geological Circuit of National Parks in the Colorado Plateau
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social Science, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkSimple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Economics, Professional Development, Mathematics, History-Social ScienceSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkIs It Hot in Here? -- Spreadsheeting Conversions in the English and Metric Systems
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Chemistry, Earth & Space Science 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 / HyperLinkEarth's Planetary Density: Constraining What We Think about the Earth's Interior
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkHow Far is Yonder Mountain? -- A Trig Problem
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Geography, Professional Development, Mathematics, History-Social ScienceSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkPredator-Prey Interactions -- Modeling the Number of Fishers and Porcupines in New Hampshire
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets to model and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0