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Using an Observatory Project to Develop Professional Communication in Astronomy
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Our Solar System, Professional Development, Earth & Space Science
This is a comprehensive project using the Highland Road Park Observatory camera. This project encompasses the formal portions fo...
Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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Phylogenetics problems
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Professional Development
Students receive information about cladistics and apply this phylogenetic approach to two problems, collecting data, determining...
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Gene expression during development: Experimental design problem
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Science
This problem challenges students to design experiments using techniques measuring gene expression (reverse transcriptase PCR, mi...
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Gleevec and the cell cycle problem
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Science
Students are given a problem about a relatively new treatment for cancer, Gleevec, and asked to apply and synthesize what they h...
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RNA processing and northern blot technique problem
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Science
Students are given a figure from a journal article of a northern blot, and are asked to interpret the results, demonstrating an ...
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Inventing and Testing Models: Using Model-Eliciting Activities
Grades: No grades selected.
Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics
by Joan Garfield, Robert delMas and Andrew Zieffler, University of Minnesota What are Model-Eliciting Activities? Model-Elicitin...
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Judging a Paper Airplane Contest
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics
This model-eliciting activity has students determine how to create a fair judging scheme for a paper airplane contest while cons...
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Creating a Spam Filter
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics
This 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. ...
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Judging Airlines
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics
This model-eliciting activity (MEA) challenges students to develop ideas about center and variability when making decisions base...
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Identifying a Theft Suspect
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics
This model-eliciting activity (MEA) challenges students to develop a model for predicting the characteristics of a person who ha...
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Measuring Study Effectiveness
Grades: Undergraduate to Graduate
Subjects: Professional Development, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics
This model-eliciting activity challenges students to operationally define a construct (study effectiveness). Students are given ...
Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)
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Investigating Isotopes and Average Atomic Mass Using Pennies
Grades: 9 to 12
Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Atomic Structure
Isotopic Pennies is an activity where students use what they have learned about isotopes and weighted averages to solve a new ch...
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Virtual Inquiry Field Lesson
Grades: 6 to 9
Subjects: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources
The use of new technological motion sensing cameras creates a motivation for students in this life science lesson.
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States of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon?
Grades: TK/K to 6
Subjects: Professional Development
This activity models the states of matter and students investigate those states with a balloon/straw rocket.
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Density Isostasy and Topography
Grades: No grades selected.
Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources
Density, Isostasy, and Topography Anne Egger, Stanford University The original activity Density, Isostasy, and Topography alread...
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How Much Water Is In Crater Lake?
Grades: No grades selected.
Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate an answer from a bathymetric map ...
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Electrical Analysis of Wind Power
Grades: No grades selected.
Subjects: Professional Development
For this experiment, students use a DC motor as a generator and various shaped turbine designs to test which design produces the...
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Slow the Ball
Grades: TK/K to 9
Subjects: Professional Development
Student small group physics challenge. Engaging and challenging.
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Investigating Rotational Inertial Using Tops
Grades: 9 to 12
Subjects: Professional Development
This activity is an investigation regarding rotational inertia and factors that affect it.
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Investigating the Effects of Density and Volume of a Cartesian Diver
Grades: TK/K to 6
Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Properties of Matter
This activity is an inquiry investigation where students gather data on why the Cartesian diver sinks or floats. They then devel...
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