Open filters Close filters

Search Results (58)

Analyzing the Last Five Years of the US Economy for an Intermediate Macro Course

Analyzing the Last Five Years of the US Economy for an Intermediate Macro Course

Rating

Intermediate students are asked to analyze data on the components of consumption and investment expenditures and explanatory variables based on textbook models of each. Students look for rough correlations between the explanatory and dependent variables.

Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:: Steven Greenlaw
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Arctic Bird Migration Monitoring Protocol

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Arctic Bird Migration Monitoring Protocol

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to observe when selected bird species first arrive at your study site, and to count the numbers until few or none of these birds are seen. Students select a common and easily identifiable bird species in their region and observe when the bird species first arrives. Students use binoculars or telescopes to scan a study site and count how many they see. They continue to observe every other day until few or none of the selected species can be seen.

Subject:: Ecology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: The GLOBE Program; UCAR; UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: Globe Program; GLOBE Teacher's Guide NGSS Aligned Records
Author:: The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Date Added:: 01/09/2007

Biometry Protocol

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Biometry Protocol

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to measure and classify the plant life at a Land Cover Site to help determine the MUC classification.

Subject:: Ecology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: The GLOBE Program
Provider Set:: GLOBE Teacher's Guide NGSS Aligned Records
Date Added:: 01/09/2007

Bird Beak Accuracy Assessment

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Bird Beak Accuracy Assessment

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to quantitatively evaluate the accuracy of a classification system. Students sort birds into three possible classes based on each bird's beak: carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores. Students compare their answers with a given set of validation data.

Subject:: History, Law, Politics; Life Science; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Mathematics; Chemistry; Geoscience; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Data Set; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Student Guide; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: NASA; The GLOBE Program; UCAR; UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: NASA Wavelength; Globe Program; GLOBE Teacher's Guide
Author:: The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Date Added:: 02/16/2011

Budburst Protocol

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Budburst Protocol

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to observe budburst on selected trees at a Land Cover or Phenology Site. All students will learn about hummingbird natural history and ecology. Students will learn how to identify and age male and female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and to observe migration and feeding behavior. Students will learn how to make connections among hummingbird behavior and weather, climate, food availability, seasonality, photoperiod (day length), and other environmental factors.

Subject:: Ecology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: The GLOBE Program; UCAR; UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: Globe Program; GLOBE Teacher's Guide NGSS Aligned Records
Author:: The GLOBE Program; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Date Added:: 01/09/2007

Climate Change Kids Site

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Climate Change Kids Site

Rating

Explore this site to learn about the science and impacts of climate change. The site also provides games that help students, their parents and their teachers learn about both the science of climate change and what actions they can take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Subject:: Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Chemistry; Geoscience; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Diagram/Illustration; Full Course; Game; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Reading; Simulation
Provider:: UCAR; UCAR Staff; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Provider Set:: Digital Water Education Library (DWEL); DLESE Community Collection
Date Added:: 02/16/2011

ClimateSim - a climate-change simulation app from ScienceBySimulation

ClimateSim - a climate-change simulation app from ScienceBySimulation

Rating

ClimateSim is a fast and simple climate modeling and simulation tool. It is a web app that is freely available to anyone interested in climate science. ClimateSim allows users to model scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions in the current century and simulates the first-order response of the earth system. ClimateSim makes climate simulation accessible in a simplified form and provides an easy-to-use simulation platform for performing virtual climate experiments. ClimateSim is primarily targeted as a science education tool for undergraduate and advanced high-school students in physics, environmental science and related courses. Instructors can use ClimateSim to illustrate climate-change concepts, demonstrate dynamic relationships between climate variables, and assign simulation-based exercises as part of their courses. It is also an appropriate and accessible tool that policymakers, journalists and others can use to get a better understanding and working knowledge of the basics of climate science.

Subject:: Geoscience; Physics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Simulation
Author:: Kumar Venkat
Date Added:: 08/28/2017

Comparing Stream Discharge in Two Watersheds in Glacier National Park

Comparing Stream Discharge in Two Watersheds in Glacier National Park

Rating

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students study how discharge per unit area varies with elevation in the high country of Glacier National Park from USGS hydrograph data from Swiftcurrent Creek and its tributary Grinnell Creek..

Subject:: Geoscience
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum
Author:: Mark Rains
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Comparison of GDP and the Human Development Index (HDI).

Comparison of GDP and the Human Development Index (HDI).

Rating

This assignment exposes students to data on economic growth and development as commonly measured by per capita GDP and the Human Development Index (HDI) for 100 countries of the world. There is a big debate about how good an indicator HDI is compared to GDP per capita as a measure of development.

Subject:: Mathematics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:: Meherun Ahmed
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Discovery Area Post-Protocol

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Discovery Area Post-Protocol

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to use a land cover type map to make environmentally sound decisions.

Subject:: Technology; History, Law, Politics; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Chemistry; Geoscience; Physics; Space Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: NASA; The GLOBE Program; UCAR; UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: NASA Wavelength; Globe Program; GLOBE Teacher's Guide
Author:: The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Date Added:: 02/16/2011

Do Quantitative Indicators Make Qualitative Meaning? Analysis of World Development Indicators, Human Development Indicators, and Happy Planet Indicators

Do Quantitative Indicators Make Qualitative Meaning? Analysis of World Development Indicators, Human Development Indicators, and Happy Planet Indicators

Rating

In this assignment, a group of four to five students will select one country that has been ranked in the World Development Indicators of the World Bank, the Human Development Indicators of the United Nations Development Program, and the Happy Planet Indicator of the New Economic Foundation. Using the selected country's political, social, and economic statistics, each group will assess the methodology and validity of the measurements of WDI, HDI, and HPI indicators for the country. Students will compare and contrast the measurement methods, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each indicator, and propose recommendations to improve these indicators.

Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:: Tun Myint
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Empirical Economics Research Proposal

Empirical Economics Research Proposal

Rating

This assignment asks students to propose an original research question and identify data that could be used to answer that question.

Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:: Nathan Grawe
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Encyclopedia of STEM problems/solutions at StemEZ.com

Encyclopedia of STEM problems/solutions at StemEZ.com

Rating

Encyclopedia of STEM education is a free resource with 50,000 problems/solutions covering 13 math subjects, 13 science subjects and 13 engineering subjects for self study learning, classroom teaching, tutoring and teacher training.

Subject:: Engineering; Technology; Education; Mathematics; Algebra; Calculus; Functions; Geometry; Statistics and Probability; Trigonometry; Physical Science; Chemistry; Physics
Material Type:: Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Student Guide; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:: open source
Date Added:: 12/21/2017

Environmental Injustice: Evaluating the Evidence

Environmental Injustice: Evaluating the Evidence

Rating

This assignment teaches students how to evaluate arguments concerning the maldistribution of environmental hazards, based on complex quantitative data.

Subject:: Ecology; Geoscience
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:: Kimberly Smith
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Epplets

Rating

Epplets present extended Parsons puzzles. In a Parsons puzzle, the student is presented a problem statement, and a program to implement it, but with the lines in the program scrambled. The student must reassemble the lines in their correct order and eliminate distracters. The tutor provides feedback until the student arrives at the correct solution. Epplets help students construct the algorithm for a problem.

Subject:: Applied Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Homework/Assignment; Interactive
Provider:: Amruth N. Kumar
Date Added:: 12/27/2016

Evolution, Natural Selection and Speciation

Evolution, Natural Selection and Speciation

Rating

In this out of class tutorial, students explore several examples of natural selection and speciation.

Subject:: Life Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Starting Point (SERC)
Author:: Scott Cooper
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Example Scenarios

Example Scenarios

Rating

This section explores several hypothetical scenarios of nuclear-weapon detonations on U.S. cities. These scenarios are meant to illustrate the possibilities of such events. Scenarios include a "what-if" scenario of a 150-kiloton nuclear explosion by terrorists on New York City, and the effects of a nuclear accident or "broken arrow" on board a nuclear submarine in San Francisco Bay.

Subject:: Technology; History, Law, Politics; Physics
Material Type:: Homework/Assignment; Reading
Provider:: NSDL Staff
Provider Set:: Atomic Archive
Author:: Christopher Griffith
Date Added:: 10/17/2005

Exploring Economic Inequality with Data

Exploring Economic Inequality with Data

Rating

This set of assignments exposes students to data which can be used to analyze economic inequality in international and historical context. Then students are asked to generate a thesis-driven argument drawing supporting evidence from one or more of the data sources.

Subject:: Mathematics
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Assessment; Homework/Assignment
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Pedagogy in Action; Quantitative Writing (SERC)
Author:: Nathan Grawe
Date Added:: 08/28/2012

Great Lakes Eco-Region

Conditions of Use:

No Strings Attached

Great Lakes Eco-Region

Rating

The Great Lakes are socially, economically, and environmentally significant to the region, the nation, and the planet." This an essential principle for Great Lakes literacy. The Great Lakes Literacy Principles and Fundamental Concepts provide a framework for educators teaching about the Great Lakes, helping teachers and students think, teach and learn of the Great Lakes as a system, rather than a set of unrelated parts. Thinking systemically can provide for a greater understanding and can help provide solutions to the issues threatening the region.

Subject:: Education; Ecology; Forestry and Agriculture; Geoscience
Material Type:: Diagram/Illustration; Homework/Assignment; Lecture; Simulation
Provider:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository; Internet Scout Project; NOAA
Provider Set:: AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository; Internet Scout Project
Author:: NOAA
Date Added:: 02/16/2011

Green-Down Protocol

Conditions of Use:

Read the Fine Print

Green-Down Protocol

Rating

The purpose of this resource is to observe plant green-down and report greendown data to help validate estimates of the end of the plant growing season. Students monitor the change in color of selected leaves of trees, shrubs or grasses.

Subject:: Ecology
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Homework/Assignment; Interactive; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: UCAR Staff
Provider Set:: GLOBE Teacher's Guide NGSS Aligned Records
Author:: The GLOBE Program, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)
Date Added:: 01/09/2007