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Sharpie Marker Tie-Die T-Shirts
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Chemistry, Professional DevelopmentThis chemistry lesson uses Sharpie Markers, rubbing alcohol and t-shirts to make a exciting tie-die looking t-shirtContributor: 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: 0Scientific Observations: A Schoolyard BioBlitz
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Physics, Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a classroom and field activity where students learn about and practice scientific observations in the classroom...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Schoolyard BioBlitz: Monthly Observations of Plants, Insects, Weather, the Sun and Moon
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Physics, Ecology & Ecosystems, Agriculture & Natural Resources, Earth & Space Science and 4 additional..In this field lab students will go outside and observe a particular area of the schoolyard. Students will design investigations ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Rock Cycle Skit
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Inquiry & Problem Based Learning, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Earth's ResourcesThis activity is a skit, commercial or song/rap about the rock cycleContributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0RNA processing and northern blot technique problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Life Sciences, Professional Development, BiochemistryStudents are given a figure from a journal article of a northern blot, and are asked to interpret the results, demonstrating an ...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: 0Ricardian Explorer
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social ScienceRicardian Explorer, implemented on the internet, simulates a Ricardian trade model with linear production technology and a CES u...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Revving up for Relief: Harley-Davidson at the ITC
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, American Democracy, Professional Development, History-Social SciencePublished in 1986, this Kennedy School case tells the story of Harley-Davidson's application to the ITC for temporary relief fro...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Retinitis pigmentosa: Genetic Eye Disease
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Professional Development, Biochemistry, Structure and Function in Living Things and 2 additional..By examining the progress of a genetic eye disease, students learn about eyes, genetic disorders, and neurons in this case desig...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Resources for using PhET simulations in class PhET Activities Database
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Chemistry, Physics, Professional Development, Instructional Strategies 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: 0Rescuing the Aral Sea: use of Case Method
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Economics, Earth & Space Science, Professional Development and 2 additional..A case based upon the environmental devastation of the Aral Sea that illustrates economic concepts of opportunity cost and socia...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Relative Dating Using "The Block"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentThis an inqiury based activity where studnets are asked to sequence events that have occurred to a block of wood and justify the...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Recycle -- or not? A case from New York City
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, Professional Development, History-Social Science, American DemocracyA case for the analysis of externalities (social costs and benefits) in the context of recycling. Drawn from a program in New Yo...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Rainbow Milk
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Physics, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Light, Sound & Other WavesIn this classroom experiment the students will observe primary colors mixing together to create a secondary color.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Rain Erosion-Does the Rate of Water Effect Erosion?
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Instructional Strategies, Earth's Resources, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a guided inquiry investigation where students gather data on rate of water falling on erosion. Student will int...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: 0Proton Neutron Rotation and Nuclear Stability
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Physics, Professional DevelopmentIn this physics activity, students will review and investigate stability of the nucleus of various elements. They will then dete...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Protein Evolution
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Science, Evolution and Adaptation, Life Sciences, Biochemistry, 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: 0Predator-Prey Interactions -- Modeling the Number of Fishers and Porcupines in New Hampshire
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Agriculture & Natural Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, Professional DevelopmentSpreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets to model and...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0