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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLong Term Ecological Resources
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space Science, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Case: Peanut Policy in the United States, 1996
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, Economics, American DemocracyThe 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 / HyperLinkMeasuring Study Effectiveness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity challenges students to operationally define a construct (study effectiveness). Students are given ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRiemann Sums and Area Approximations
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsAfter 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing PhET simulations in a large lecture class The Photoelectric Effect
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Light, Sound & Other Waves, Physics, Professional Development, Human Anatomy & PhysiologyThis activity provides a complete curriculum for teaching the photoelectric effect using the PhET Photoelectric Effect simulatio...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIndex Numbers: Gasoline and Inflation -- Why We Need the Consumer Price Index
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsSpreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to examine the price of gasoline, 1978-2005. QL: using ratios...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHas Our Knowledge of Neuroscience Led to Ethical Dilemmas?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis is a lesson dealing with a new subdivision of bioethics called neuroethics. As our knowledge of the brain and nervous syste...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing an Observatory Project to Develop Professional Communication in Astronomy
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth & Space Science, Professional Development, Our Solar SystemThis is a comprehensive project using the Highland Road Park Observatory camera. This project encompasses the formal portions fo...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJudging Randomness
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Professional Development, ProbabilityThis model-eliciting activity has students create rules to allow them to judge whether or not the shuffle feature on a particula...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIdentifying a Theft Suspect
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Mathematics, Professional DevelopmentThis model-eliciting activity (MEA) challenges students to develop a model for predicting the characteristics of a person who ha...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 / HyperLinkToo many deer? A public hearing
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Earth's Resources, History-Social Science, American Democracy, Ecology & Ecosystems and 4 additional..Students reenact a public hearing to determine how to manage a deer herd that is overpopulated.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking Observations and Drawings
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Professional DevelopmentThis activity is designed to help students understand the importance of observations in science. It encourages them to work on t...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: Chemistry, Solution Chemistry, Properties of Matter, Physics 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 / HyperLinkElectrical Analysis of Wind Power
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional DevelopmentFor this experiment, students use a DC motor as a generator and various shaped turbine designs to test which design produces the...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEnergy Flow through Organisms: An Introduction to Photosynthesis and Respiration
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Earth's Resources, Ecology & Ecosystems, Earth & Space Science, Agriculture & Natural Resources and 4 additional..This classroom activity introduces students to energy flow through organisms, producers & photosynthesis, and consumers & respir...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 / HyperLinkEarthquake Magnitude: How Can We Compare the Sizes of Earthquakes?
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth's Resources, Earth & Space Science, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPerfect Competition: A Context Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, History-Social Science, EconomicsStudents find the profit-maximizing level of output for a perfectly competitive firm and check the shut-down condition for two d...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAn exploration of spring systems: Asking and answering quantitative questions
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, PhysicsLaboratory activity on springs and simple harmonic motion that encourages creative development of experiments and clear presenta...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0