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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing PhET simulations in high school Open-ended Pendulum Labs
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Multimedia Presentation, Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThese labs provide examples of using very open-ended questions to guide students in exploring a simulation and designing their o...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting your own activities - PhET Activity Guidelines
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Multimedia Presentation, Instructional Strategies, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Professional DevelopmentYou can create your own lectures, homework, and labs around any PhET simulation by using the PhET Activity Guidelines. These gui...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing PhET simulations to replace real equipment in lab Circuit Construction Kit
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Multimedia Presentation, Instructional Strategies, Professional DevelopmentLabs and tutorials that use equipment such as circuits can be modified to use PhET simulations instead. Research shows that subs...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to Measurement (advanced high school/intro college level)
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development30-page illustrated guide to fundamentals of measurement. This is intended to be a clear, comprehensive overview of effective me...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLab: Horizontally Launched Projectiles (with uncertainty analysis)
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Force & Motion, Professional DevelopmentThis is a version of the time-tested lab where students roll a ball off a table top and use kinematics in two dimensions to try ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkActivity: Measure Your Reaction Time
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional DevelopmentThis is a lab activity that allows students to collect data to practice using effective measurement. While other authors have pr...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLab: Measuring the Speed of Sound in Air (with uncertainty analysis)
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Professional Development, Light, Sound & Other WavesStudents use a microphone and Vernier LabQuest to record the sound of a finger-snap echo in a 1-2 meter cardboard tube. Students...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lifestyle Project at the University of North Dakota
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Current Science, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..I use the Lifestyle Project in my Introduction to Environmental Issues class. This 3-week project asks students to make changes ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lifestyle Project at Malaspina University-College, British Columbia
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Current Science, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..The project is used in two courses, both with the theme of understanding the environmental implications of our use of energy, ex...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMedicine in the Body
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, MathematicsIn this activity, we will explore how the dosage and frequency of a medicine taken affect the amount of medicine present in the ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Beautiful Mind: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Mathematics, Professional Development, EconomicsA Beautiful Mind won the Academy Award for best picture in 2001 and it chronicles the life of John Nash who is noted for his pio...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Hudsucker Proxy: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Professional Development, EconomicsThis film chronicles the introduction of the hula hoop, a toy that set off one of the greatest fads in United States history. Ac...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing Two Airlines
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn this model‚Äêeliciting activity (MEA), students are hired by a travel magazine to determine if two airlines that fly into Chi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResources for using PhET simulations in class PhET Activities Database
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Instructional Strategies, Chemistry, Physics, Multimedia Presentation and 2 additional..The PhET Activities Database is a collection of resources for using PhET sims. It includes hundreds of lesson plans, homework as...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVarious Group Activities Using Learning Assistants
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and 2 additional..Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants in Recitation Tutorials
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Physics, Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentUndergraduate Learning Assistants can be used to supplement the instructor and/or Teaching Assistant during recitations. They ma...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants in Oral Assessments
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Mathematics, Professional Development, EconomicsUndergraduate Learning Assistants -- prepared to work productively with students -- have been used to facilitate ungraded, volun...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Learning Assistants to Support Peer Instruction with Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers")
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Instructional Strategies, Chemistry and 5 additional..Learning Assistants are used to facilitate student discussion in peer instruction during clicker questions (i.e., classroom resp...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEconModel
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Professional Development, EconomicsThis site contains 21 modular, easy to use economic models, that are appropriate for class assignments or in-class demonstration...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOpen Outcry Market
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: History-Social Science, Professional Development, EconomicsThis example is an in-class market simulation conducted with paper cards assigning each student a buyer or seller role and a res...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0