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A Healthier You: Modeling a Healthier Weight from Dietary Improvement and Exercise
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets 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: 0Earthquake Magnitude: How Can We Compare the Sizes of Earthquakes?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets 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: 0Serial Dilution: Tracking Bacterial Population Size and Antibiotic Resistance
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Cells, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to calculate and compare bacterial population sizes from ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0How Large is the Great Pyramid of Giza? -- Would it make a wall that would enclose France?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: California History (4th Grade), World History, Mathematics, United States History, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students calculate the volume of the Great Pyramid and, following Napoleon, estimate ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Radioactive Decay and Popping Popcorn -- Understanding the Rate Law
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets 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: 0How Large is a Ton of Rock? -- Thinking about Rock Density
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets 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: 0Riemann Sums and Area Approximations
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentAfter 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: 0Mathematical Curve Conjectures
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentIn 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: 0Symmetry and Tilings: An Exploration
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentStudents 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: 0Partial Derivatives: Geometric Visualization
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentThis 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: 0Combined 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: 0Translation simulation
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis 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: 0JiTT-Scientific Method
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentA "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: 0Evolution, Natural Selection and Speciation
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentIn this out of class tutorial, students explore several examples of natural selection and speciation.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Monohybrid Fruit Fly Crosses: A Simulation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentThis 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: 0Writing a Wikipedia Genetic Disease Article
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Professional DevelopmentWriting 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: 0Phenylketonuira
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentIn 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: 0Long Term Ecological Resources
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Professional DevelopmentStudents 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: 0Protein Evolution
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Evolution and Adaptation, Professional DevelopmentIn 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: 0How Much Work is Required: Intuition vs. Mathematical Calculation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsThis classroom activity presents Calculus II students with some Flash tutorials involving work and pumping liquids and a simple ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0