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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Lifestyle Project at the University of Redlands
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems and 2 additional..This three-week project begins with a measurement of "baseline" consumptive behavior followed by two weeks of working to reduce ...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: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, 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: Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth's Resources, 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 / HyperLinkThe Hudsucker Proxy: Using Media to Teach Economics
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkThe First Law of Motion: The Tower of Coins
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity will provide the students with an opportunity to use inquiry. This activity will also help them to begin to unders...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Effect of Acid Rain on Seed Growth
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources and 2 additional..This activity is an in class lab where students will compare different acid solutions on seed germination and growth.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Textiles and the Multi-Fiber Arrangement
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: American Democracy, Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsAn "oldie but goodie" this 1983 case (revised in 1990), is set in December 1981, when the international arrangement governing in...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Scissors and Shears
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: American Democracy, Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis case is the transcript of the 1962 Congressional Testimony of BC Deuschle, President of the Scissors, Shears and Manicure I...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Peanut Policy in the United States, 1996
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: American Democracy, Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThe text of this case is a transcript of a story broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered on January 22, 1996. The story concern...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Maine Turnpike Toll Discounts
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis is a very short case about a coupon experiment on the Maine Turnpike that can be used very early in Micro Principles course...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTax Game
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThe link between a set of taxes and income distribution is an important, but difficult, concept taught in economics principles c...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSymmetry 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkString Scientific Notation/Metric System Demonstration
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Physics, Life Sciences 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 / HyperLinkStates of Matter: Which Will Propel the Balloon?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity models the states of matter and students investigate those states with a balloon/straw rocket.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpecialization and Division of Labor
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsThis example engages students in a simple simulation of specialization and division of labor. All that is needed are staplers an...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSoil vs. Rocks
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Instructional StrategiesThis lesson will extend the learning on rocks with the Foss kit, Pebbles, Sand, and Silt to include soil. Students will perform ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSnails: Population Calculation in an Aquatic Environment
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Professional Development, Physics, Earth & Space Science, Earth's ResourcesIn this field investigation, students will identify and determine the population size of snails in an aquatic environment.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlow the Ball
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentStudent small group physics challenge. Engaging and challenging.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSimple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, Economics, MathematicsSpreadsheets 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 / HyperLinkSimple Mendelian Genetics: An interactive lecture using "DNA from the Beginning"
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Biochemistry, Professional Development, Science, Life Sciences and 3 additional..An interactive lecture that uses flash animations showing the researcher and their experiments that were used to develop the bas...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0