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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIndex Numbers: Gasoline and Inflation -- Why We Need the Consumer Price Index
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Economics, History-Social ScienceSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkA Healthier You: Modeling a Healthier Weight from Dietary Improvement and Exercise
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Life SciencesSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkEarthquake Magnitude: How Can We Compare the Sizes of Earthquakes?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkSerial Dilution: Tracking Bacterial Population Size and Antibiotic Resistance
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, 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 / HyperLinkHow Large is the Great Pyramid of Giza? -- Would it make a wall that would enclose France?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, World History, United States History, Mathematics, 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 / 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 a Ton of Rock? -- Thinking about Rock Density
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkRiemann Sums and Area Approximations
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsAfter 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 / HyperLinkMathematical Curve Conjectures
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsIn 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 / HyperLinkSymmetry and Tilings: An Exploration
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsStudents 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 / HyperLinkPartial Derivatives: Geometric Visualization
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsThis 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 / HyperLinkCombined Series and Parallel Circuits: Interactive Lecture Demonstrations
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Force & Motion, Professional DevelopmentThree in-class lecture demonstration questions to test and build understanding of DC circuits are presented. These questions cov...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTranslation simulation
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Science, BiochemistryThis module introduces students to the basics behind translation of a messenger RNA sequence into protein. In addition to text a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJiTT-Scientific Method
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesA "Just in Time Teaching" question about he scientific method with follow-up class room activities and an exam question.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvolution, Natural Selection and Speciation
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationIn this out of class tutorial, students explore several examples of natural selection and speciation.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMonohybrid Fruit Fly Crosses: A Simulation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Evolution and Adaptation, DNA, Genetics & BiotechnologyThis assignment uses a computer simulation of fruit fly genetics to have students design and interpret monohybrid crosses of a t...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting a Wikipedia Genetic Disease Article
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, DNA, Genetics & BiotechnologyWriting a Wikipedia article about a genetic disease is a good culminating activity for a genetics course or module, as it requir...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhenylketonuira
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, BiochemistryIn this activity, students are assigned different alleles of the gene for phenylalanine hydroxylase to research using OMIM (Onli...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLong Term Ecological Resources
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesStudents analyze data on temperature and precipitation collected from 26 different Long Term Ecological Research sites and compa...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProtein Evolution
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Evolution and Adaptation, Life Sciences, Science, BiochemistryIn this activity students explore the evolution of proteins by comparing 2D and 3D alignments of orthologs and paralogs.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0