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Energy Everywhere: Lesson 3 Digging Deeper, Unit 3 Natural Resources, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Energy Everywhere: Lesson 3 Digging Deeper, Unit 3 Natural Resources, DIGS AmeriCorps Curriculum CSU

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Energy Everywhere. This is the Lesson 3 Digging Deeper activity, from Unit 3 Natural Resources, from the DIGS (Developing Individuals, Growing Stewards) AmeriCorps Curriculum from CSU. The curriculum focuses on introducing students in grades 3-5 to Colorado agriculture, industry and environmental issues. The curriculum upon request. Visit: https://engagement.colostate.edu/programs-old/developing-individuals-growing-stewards/

Energy Usage Spreadsheet CATE Lesson Plan

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Energy Usage Spreadsheet CATE Lesson Plan

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Students will be using real-life energy use data to learn how to use spreadsheets and create graphs to better organize and view data. Discussions can then follow to analyze the data and explain the usage. Real rates are then provided, and students can use the electricity consumed data to create a utility bill for the consumer and compare the standard Residential Service charges to if the member were instead billed by the “Time of Use” rate.

Subject:: Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Numbers and Operations
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Data Set; Lesson Plan; Primary Source
Date Added:: 04/08/2023

Energízate Equipo STEM

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Energízate Equipo STEM

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Energízate Equipo STEM. El Centro de Extensión y Educación en Ciencias Naturales colabora con la facultad de CSU, los Parques Nacionales y los programas de ciencia ciudadana para traducir su investigación científica actual en experiencias STEM únicas para los estudiantes en forma de kits educativos que se pueden prestar. Cada kit contiene casi todos los materiales necesarios (menos cosas comunes como agua y toallas de papel) para explorar algunos temas de investigación científica realmente interesantes. enviando un formulario de recogida local o un formulario de entrega disponible en el sitio web vinculado. Utilice la información de contacto en la página de descripción general del kit STEM para obtener más información. https://www.cns-eoc.colostate.edu/stem-kits/ Este kit se proporciona de forma gratuita para uso educativo.

Engaging Question

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I use an "engaging question" on the first day of class in all of my courses. This activity is designed to be both engaging and central to all of the course content. That is, the activity is designed around questions that we can keep coming back to, over and over, after each learning unit. This approach not only provides a unifying focus for the course, but it also provides an opportunity to model critical thinking as we revisit the question each time with a different perspective. For the Dynamic Earth and Global Change (the Physical Geology course at Macalester) I chose a question about climate change. The activity starts with two graphs (plots of surface temperature and atmosphere CO2 composition for the past 1,000 years). Students are asked to describe the graphs, interpret the graphs, make some predictions, and explain the graphs using basic earth science processes.

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Subject:: Applied Science; Biology; Computer, Networking and Telecommunications Systems; Education; Environmental Science; Information Science; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 08/18/2019

Engineering in the World of Dr. Seuss

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Engineering in the World of Dr. Seuss

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Students are introduced to the engineering design process within the context of reading Dr. Seuss’s book, Bartholomew and the Oobleck. To do so, students study a sample of aloe vera gel (representing the oobleck) in lab groups. After analyzing the substance, they use the engineering design process to develop and test other substances in order to make it easier for rain to wash away the oobleck. Students must work within a set of constraints outlined within the Seuss book and throughout the activity and use only substances available within the context of the plot. Students also take into consideration the financial and environmental costs associated with each substance.

Subject:: Applied Science; Chemistry; Engineering; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: TeachEngineering
Provider Set:: Activities
Date Added:: 05/10/2019

Engineering the Perfect Gummy Candy

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Engineering the Perfect Gummy Candy

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Students use a recipe to prepare a hydrogel gummy snack, which has a similar consistency to that found in a Haribo® gummy product. They must convert the juice and gelatin-based recipe from US customary units to metric units with dimensional analysis conversion. After unit conversion, teams are given different gelatin quantities and design their gummy snacks. Once the candies have solidified, student groups compare the gummy snacks are for viscosity and taste. After a taste test, teams reflect on their experiment and brainstorm ways to iterate a better gummy recipe.

Subject:: Chemistry; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Numbers and Operations; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: TeachEngineering
Provider Set:: Activities
Date Added:: 05/30/2019

Environmental Health Risk Inventory

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Environmental Health Risk Inventory

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To complete this activity, students can follow the instructions and the tutorial in the Environmental Health Risk Inventory website. In doing this, they will gain an understanding of how to use on-line tools and databases as well as the processes of compiling an environmental health risk inventory for a specific locale. In the activity, students will address the question: "how healthy is your neighborhood?" Students will address anthropogenic and naturally-occurring health risks in their hometown or neighborhood by using data collected from online mapping tools and databases. Students will also complete a reflective summary based on the data that they collect.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Biology; Environmental Studies; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 11/19/2021

Environmental impacts of oil production in Alaska

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Environmental impacts of oil production in Alaska

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An activity designed to enable the students to access the impact of oil-development on environment in Alaska. Students will draw conclusion based on various data and reading various views.

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Subject:: Biology; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Data Set; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 01/26/2021

Episodic tremor and slip: The Case of the Mystery Earthquakes | Lessons on Plate Tectonics

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Episodic tremor and slip: The Case of the Mystery Earthquakes | Lessons on Plate Tectonics

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Earthquakes in western Washington and Oregon are to be expected -- the region lies in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Offshore, the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate subducts under the North American plate, from northern California to British Columbia. The region, however, also experiences exotic seismicity -- Episodic Tremor and Slip (ETS).In this lesson, your students study seismic and GPS data from the region to recognize a pattern in which unusual tremors--with no surface earthquakes--coincide with jumps of GPS stations. This is ETS. Students model ductile and brittle behavior of the crust with lasagna noodles to understand how properties of materials depend on physical conditions. Finally, they assemble their knowledge of the data and models into an understanding of ETS in subduction zones and its relevance to the millions of residents in Cascadia.

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Subject:: Biology; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 08/27/2022

Estimate by Inches and Feet

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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about estimating the measure of objects by image: feet or inches?.

Subject:: Mathematics; Measurement and Data
Material Type:: Assessment; Interactive; Lecture
Provider:: CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:: CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:: 04/08/2023

Estimating: Counting Trees

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This lesson unit is intended to help you assess how well students are able to: solve simple problems involving ratio and direct proportion; choose an appropriate sampling method; and collect discrete data and record them using a frequency table.

Subject:: Education; Geometry; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Ratios and Proportions
Material Type:: Assessment; Lecture Notes; Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: Shell Center for Mathematical Education
Provider Set:: Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)
Date Added:: 03/30/2023

Estimating Discharge from Ares Vallis Using Pathfinder Images and MOLA Topography

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Estimating Discharge from Ares Vallis Using Pathfinder Images and MOLA Topography

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On July 4th, 1997, Mars Pathfinder landed at the mouth of Ares Vallis, a large channel that drains into the Chryse Planitia basin. While there remains a great deal to debate about the origin of the channels, one of the leading hypotheses at present is the idea that these features are the result of catastrophic flooding. If this is correct, then the plains where Pathfinder landed may be rich in debris eroded out of the Martian highlands across which the Ares Vallis channel passes, providing a golden combination -- a relatively safe landing site which still provides access to a wide variety of different rock types. [If you would like to learn more about the many Pathfinder results, explore the April, 1999 and January, 2000 issues of the journal Journal of Geophysical Research -- Planets (the green one) in the library.]

For the sake of this lab assignment you will hypothesize that the Ares Vallis and associated deposits were indeed produced by catastrophic flooding, and will use the information at your disposal to learn all you can about the putative flooding event.

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Subject:: Biology; Earth and Space Science; Hydrology; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/20/2022

Estimating Exchange Rates of Water in Embayments using Simple Budget Equations.

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Estimating Exchange Rates of Water in Embayments using Simple Budget Equations.

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Simple budgets may be used to estimate the exchange of water in embayments that capitalize on the concept of steady state and conservation principals. This is especially true for bays that experience a significant exchange of freshwater. This exchange of freshwater may reduce the average salt concentration in the bay compared to seawater if it involves addition of freshwater from rivers, R, and/or precipitation, P. Alternatively, it may increase the average salt concentration in the bay compared to seawater if there is relatively little river input and high evaporation, E. Since freshwater input changes the salt concentration in the bay, and salt is a conservative material, it is possible to combine two steady state budgets for a bay, one for salt and one for water, to solve for the magnitude of the water flows that enter and exit the bay mouth.
Students will make actual calculations for the inflow and outflow of water to Puget Sound, Washington and the Mediterranean Sea and compare them to actual measured values.

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Subject:: Biology; Chemistry; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Physical Science; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 11/24/2020

Estimating OUR Carbon Footprint

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Estimating OUR Carbon Footprint

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Subject:: Applied Science; Biology; Health, Medicine and Nursing; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Author:: Ben Galluzzo; Jean McGivney-Burelle; Rikki Wagstrom
Date Added:: 05/19/2021

Estimating Primary Production in the Oceans from Satellite Data

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Estimating Primary Production in the Oceans from Satellite Data

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In this computer lab, students use satellite imagery, daylength information, and phytoplankton physiology models to calculate annual primary production for an assigned ocean region.

Satellite data is obtained from the NASA Earth Observation website. Students use the analysis tool to determine chlorophyll concentration and sea surface temperature. They also receive a day-length calculator and are asked to model light transmission through the water column. Using step-by-step instructions and proviede equations relating phytoplankton physiology to irradiance and temperature students calculate carbon uptake at discreet locations in the water column. The second half of the exercise involves scaling up to the entire water column, region, and season. Students present their work to the class and evaluate their result using scientific literature. Differences between regions are then discussed by the class.

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Subject:: Biology; Chemistry; Earth and Space Science; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Oceanography; Physical Science
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Data Set; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 06/16/2022

Estimating the Measure of Items by Description: Inches Feet or Yards

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This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach fifth graders about estimating the measure of items by description: inches, feet, or yards?.

Subject:: Mathematics; Measurement and Data
Material Type:: Assessment; Interactive; Lecture
Provider:: CK-12 Foundation
Provider Set:: CK-12 Elementary Math
Date Added:: 04/08/2023

Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity

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Evaluating the Health of an Urban Wetland Using Electrical Resistivity

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This module introduces students to the fundamental principles and uses of electrical resistivity, with a focus on an environmental application. Students explore the characteristics and environmental setting of Harrier Meadow, a saltmarsh just outside of New York City. They investigate the relationship between electrical resistivity and physical properties of the soil in the marsh. Students also discover how variations in survey configuration parameters control investigation depth (how far into the ground the signals sense) and spatial resolution (what size objects can be detected). Finally, students learn about and then perform geophysical inversion, which is the process of estimating the geophysical properties of the subsurface from geophysical observations. In the final unit of the module, students evaluate the extent to which the geophysical dataset and direct physical measurements support the hypothesis, introduced in Unit 1, accounting for the distribution of Pickleweed in Harrier Meadow.
This module is intended to require approximately 2-3 weeks of class time. Teaching material includes PowerPoints that may be used in lectures or provided for self-guided learning, exercises, and handouts that ask students to synthesize what they learn from the exercises. In addition, multiple choice and short answer questions can be given to students as homework, on quizzes, or on exams.

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Subject:: Agriculture and Natural Resources; Chemistry; Earth and Space Science; Environmental Studies; Hydrology; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Physical Science; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Lesson Plan; Module
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/27/2022

Evolution of Normal Fault Systems During Progressive Deformation

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Evolution of Normal Fault Systems During Progressive Deformation

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Many papers by Ken McClay and colleagues have established the value of scale-model experiments in understanding the evolution and geometries of extensional fault systems (e.g. T. Dooley and K.R. McClay, 1997, Analogue modeling of pull-apart basins: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 81, no.11, p. 1804 -- 1826).

There are few resources available that help students visualize the dynamic nature of faulting, especially the complex interplay of faults during growth and evolution of a fault system. Such an understanding is critical, however, if students are to think meaningfully about fault geometries and what they imply.

Conducting scale-model experiments in a class setting is useful, but very time-consuming, difficult for all students to see well, and very temporary, except for the end product. Accordingly, taking a cue from a movie produced by Ken McClay, I constructed a deformation apparatus, conducted and filmed several experiments conducted by McClay, and then produced QuickTime movies of the experiments. This approach makes it possible for students to observe an experiment in a minute or two that took 30-45 minutes to produce and to view the experiment repeatedly, so as to become very familiar with all that is taking place.

Individual frames from the movie provide a template on which students can identify the sequence of fault development, rotation of features, and cessation of motion on some faults as they become inactive. Requiring students to document their observations, establish a chronological sequence of events, and explain in writing what happens during the experiment results in an increased awareness of the faulting process.

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Subject:: Biology; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 09/10/2020

Exercise 8: Using LiDAR and GPS data to model the water table in ArcScene

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Exercise 8: Using LiDAR and GPS data to model the water table in ArcScene

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In this exercise, students process LiDAR data for the Hamilton College campus area to determine accurate elevations of wellheads of sampling wells on campus. Students use both GPS readings and orthophotos to determine wellhead locations and combine those with water levels, casing heights, and wellhead elevations to interpolate a groundwater surface under the campus and portray the groundwater in ArcScene. They also learn how to use Model Builder. You might also be interested in our Full GIS course with links to all assignments. You might also be interested in our webinar for the NYS GIS Association on A Simple Example of Working with LiDAR using ArcGIS and 3D Analyst.

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Subject:: Biology; Life Science; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Statistics and Probability
Material Type:: Activity/Lab
Provider:: Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:: Teach the Earth
Date Added:: 02/02/2022

Experimento de Sombra de Reloj de Sol Humano, Americorp Bolsa de STEM

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Crea un reloj de sol humano para medir el tiempo usando sombras. Actividad de Bolsa de STEM Semanal. Agentes de Colorado Americorp en los condados de Araphahoe, Denver, Garfield, Larimer y Weld. Trabajo apoyado por la Corporación para el Servicio Nacional y Comunitario bajo el número de subvención 18AFHCO0010008 de Americorps. Las opiniones o puntos de vista expresados en esta lección pertenecen a los autores y no representan necesariamente la posición oficial o una posición respaldada por la Corporación o el programa Americorps.

Subject:: Astronomy; Earth and Space Science; Geometry; Mathematics; Measurement and Data; Physical Geography; Physical Science; Physics; Space Science; Trigonometry
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan
Provider:: Americorps
Provider Set:: STEM in a bag weekly activity
Date Added:: 02/24/2023