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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou Greedy Energy User
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Energy & WorkThis activity involves students in recording their energy usage of particular appliances and devices over a certain period of ti...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: Multimedia Presentation, Professional Development, Physics, Education, Child Development & Family Services, Instructional StrategiesYou 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 / HyperLinkWriting about Numbers We Should Know
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Mathematics, Psychology, History-Social ScienceThis opening assignment for an introductory quantitative reasoning course asks students to write about "Numbers We Should Know."...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorm Investigation to Explore Experimental Design
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a lab intended to help students learn to setup an investigation with worms to learn about experimental design a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorking with a handmade oscilloscope
Grades: TK/K to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is where students build and use an oscilliscope exploring with sound and sound waves.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWill the cup of water overflow when the ice melts?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an in-class experiment where students predict, observe, and summarize what will happen when ice melts in a cup ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy is Chlorophyll Green?
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Instructional Strategies, Professional Development, Life SciencesThis is an out of class exercise that allows students to explore biological molecules that contain heme like molecules with meta...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Does It Go So Fast? Investigating what makes rockets go up in space
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is an inquiry based activity where students investigate how the force that causes rockets to go into space is simi...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho Wants To Live Here? Water Sampling At Our Local Pond and Stream
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Physics, Earth & Space Science, ScienceThis activity is a field activity where students will perform various water quality tests to determine the types of organisms th...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's the best payment?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, Economics, History-Social Science, Instructional StrategiesAfter predicting which of two earnings streams has the highest currrent value, students use a discounted values table to compare...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat sizes are the planets and how do they move around the sun?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Our Solar SystemThis is an activity to help students understand the abstract concept about how planets move around the sun and their relative si...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat sizes are the planets and how do they move around the sun?
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Our Solar SystemThis is a whole class activity in which the class will physically model how the planets move around the sun. I will have the bal...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Killed Tweety? An ecological exploration of West Nile Virus
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space ScienceThis activity is an internet exploration of West Nile Virus and the effects this virus has directly on bird populations. Student...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Determines Gender in Humans?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: DNA, Genetics & Biotechnology, Science, Biochemistry, Professional Development, Life SciencesIn this activity students examine karyotypes from five individuals to try to identify which chromosomes determine gender in huma...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWater Quality
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Earth's Resources, Professional Development, Physics, Earth & Space Science, ScienceThis is a field investigation in which students test water quality in 2-3 areas using their own testable question.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWater Bottle Rockets- Understanding Energy
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, PhysicsThis lab activity is an exploration of Newton's Three Laws, forces and energy. Students will design, build, launch and analyze r...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalking on Water--How Do Water Striders Do It?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Physics, Properties of Matter, Science, Solution Chemistry and 3 additional..This activity provides students with a first look at water tension and its role in the life of a water strider.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVolumes of Solids of Revolution
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsThis write-pair-share activity presents Calculus II students with a worksheet containing several exercises that require them to ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVocabulary Review Bingo
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, PhysicsThis is a vocabulary building game based on matching words with definitions.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0