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Water collection and usage in the Sustainable SW Japanese Garden
The Albuquerque Water Authority has several activities on their web site to help with making a personal water audit, selecting xeriscape plants, designing garden areas as well as forms for rebates. We used the ABQ Water Authority design format to calculate which plants to install. Students start with a personal water audit and then move to the design of the garden.
Personal water audit http://www.abcwua.org/Understanding_Your_Bill.aspx
Techniques to consevere water outdoors http://www.abcwua.org/Save_Water_Outdoors.aspx
Planning Xeriscape - students create their own personal garden and we transfer the concepts to the Japanese Garden. We are looking at Japanese design elements with a SW flare and thereby modeling what the internees did when they were limited to the surrounding rock, vegetation and water collection. http://www.abcwua.org/Xeriscaping.aspx
Calculating roof area using a Google satellite image
We use a measurable square on the pathway for the scale and then we calculate the square feet of the roof area. A transparency is used to overlay the image and calculate the water harvest.
Calculating the capacity of the 1500 gallon cistern in terms of water needed per plant
Students experiment with buckets to see ascertain the best collection site. The water is measured after rainfalls and compared to the weather data collected by the NOAA.
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- Subject:
- Agriculture
- Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Biology
- Business and Communication
- Earth and Space Science
- Hydrology
- Life Science
- Management
- Political Science
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Homework/Assignment
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Teach the Earth
- Author:
- Rhonda Spidell
- Date Added:
- 08/17/2022
To prepare to view the TCE animation, students could view the 'A Civil Action' movie and the instructor could read to them excerpts from the trial testimony and images from Woburn, wells G and H, geologic materials, geologic cross sections, the trial participants, and the federal courtroom in Boston (available as a attachment to this activity and at a website listed below). The discussion in Bair (2001) about scientists in the courtroom, the specific (excerpted) testimony presented by the three expert witnesses in the 'A Civil Action' trial, a chart summarizing the differences in their testimony, and the views of a federal judge on the goal of science versus the goal of a civil trial may also be worthwhile reading by the class prior to the assignment.
The instructor could also show students the large plates included in the USGS report by Myette and others (1987) that display potentiometric data and contours before and after the famous aquifer test performed in December 1985 and January 1986, just before the trial, and discuss the ramifications of having only two sets of water-level measurements to characterize all the changes in the flow system between 1964 and 1979, when wells G and H periodically operated. This makes students consider the substantial differences in making predictions based on a steady-state conceptualization of the flow system or a transient conceptualization.
The instructor could also show the animation of induced infiltration from the Aberjona River to wells G and H that also was created by Martin van Oort (M.S., 2005) and based on the research of Maura Metheny (M.S., 1998; Ph.D., 2004) at Ohio State University. Viewing both animations enables students to see that the water produced by wells G and H is a highly transient mixture derived from many different source areas within the valley.
The article by Bair and Metheny (2002) concerning the remediation activities at the Wells G & H Superfund Site could be used to show how groundwater contamination is cleaned up, why different remediation schemes needed to be used in different hydrogeologic settings, and why cleanup to U.S. EPA standards can take decades.
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- Subject:
- Biology
- Business and Communication
- Earth and Space Science
- Hydrology
- Life Science
- Management
- Political Science
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Homework/Assignment
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Teach the Earth
- Date Added:
- 09/04/2019
Students are asked to write a letter to the editor of their newspaper to explain their point of view as a seller in a market that is about to experience an increased sales tax rate.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Economics
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Teaching and Learning Economics (SERC)
- Date Added:
- 04/12/2023
The link between a set of taxes and income distribution is an important, but difficult, concept taught in economics principles courses. The Tax Game simulation requires a student to set tax rates for an income tax, a property tax, a wealth tax, a payroll tax, a corporate income tax, a sales tax,and an excise tax. The student can choose any rates he or she wishes, but must achieve a given revenue target.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Economics
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Starting Point (SERC)
- Date Added:
- 04/12/2023
This is a very short case about a coupon experiment on the Maine Turnpike that can be used very early in Micro Principles courses to motivate the introduction of demand curves, elasticity and externalities that comes later in the course.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Economics
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Teaching and Learning Economics (SERC)
- Date Added:
- 04/12/2023
The text of this case is a transcript of a story broadcast on NPR's All Things Considered on January 22, 1996. The story concerns Congressional debate about agricultural programs, particularly the price support program for peanuts. The story includes statements from a member of Congress as well as representatives of peanut growers and peanut processors. The peanut program includes import restrictions, a price floor and peanut growing licenses, and this case describes those and includes statements from peanut growers, processors and consumers.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Economics
- Political Science
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Starting Point (SERC)
- Date Added:
- 04/12/2023
This case is the transcript of the 1962 Congressional Testimony of BC Deuschle, President of the Scissors, Shears and Manicure Implement Manufacturers' Association, with regard to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. Deuschle opposes the act, fearing that reduced protection will destroy his industry. The case includes all of the classic economic and political motives for protection.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Economics
- Political Science
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Starting Point (SERC)
- Date Added:
- 04/12/2023
For farmers, growing crops is just one step in running a successful farm—making the farm or market garden economically viable requires another suite of skills, including finding land, planning what crops to grow, marketing the crops, and managing income and expenses. This resource builds on our experience educating hundreds of apprentice growers in organic production, farm and business planning, direct marketing at a roadside farm stand, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) management through hands-on training in the running of our 100-member CSA program. Teaching Direct Marketing and Small Farm Viability: Resources for Instructors is organized into six units, three focusing on marketing and three covering other topics related to making a small farm economically viable. Included are lessons and resources for running a CSA project, selling at farmers' markets, forming collaborative marketing groups and grower cooperatives, and selling to restaurants. Also covered are strategies to improve small farm planning, including enterprise visioning and market assessment; creating a business plan, including marketing and crop plans; and managing cash flow. Land tenure options such as cash-rent leases from non-profits, shared ownership models, conservation easements, and community land trusts are reviewed as additional mechanisms for addressing the complex issue of the economic viability of small-scale agriculture. This resource also reviews the trends and factors that influence small-scale agriculture's economics, and provides an overview of produce marketing in the U.S. The training manual is designed for – •Instructors at college and universities, agriculture organizations, farm-training programs, apprenticeship programs •Agricultural extension personnel •Farmers with interns •Growers, teachers, and organizers at urban farms, community gardens, and food projects with direct-marketing outlets This instructor's resource features class and field demonstration outlines, trainee exercises, and resource materials, with a focus on CSA. The manual can be used in a classroom setting or adapted for other training formats, such as short courses, conferences, and field days.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Management
- Marketing
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lecture Notes
- Lesson Plan
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Provider:
- U.C. Santa Cruz
- Provider Set:
- Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems
- Date Added:
- 05/10/2023
Over the past 35 years, instructors at the University of California, Santa Cruz have taught organic farming and gardening skills to more than a thousand apprentices through the UCSC Farm & Garden Apprenticeship program. Teaching Organic Farming & Gardening: Resources for Instructors is their 600-page manual and covers practical aspects of organic farming and gardening, applied soil science, and social and environmental issues in agriculture. Units contain lecture outlines for instructors and detailed lecture outlines for students, field and laboratory demonstrations, assessment questions, and annotated resource lists. Although much of the material has been developed for field or garden demonstrations and skill building, most of the units can also be tailored to a classroom setting.
The training manual is designed for a wide audience of those involved in teaching farming and gardening, including colleges and universities with programs in sustainable agriculture, student farms or gardens, and on-farm education programs; urban agriculture, community garden, and farm training programs; farms with internships or apprenticeships; agriculture extension stations; school gardening programs; organizations such as the Peace Corps, US AID, and other groups that provide international training in food growing and ecological growing methods; and master gardener programs.
- Subject:
- Agriculture
- Agriculture and Natural Resources
- Business and Communication
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lecture Notes
- Lesson Plan
- Syllabus
- Provider:
- University of California, Santa Cruz
- Provider Set:
- Individual Authors
- Author:
- Individual Authors
- Date Added:
- 05/03/2023
Principles of economics students are asked to collect and analyze data on a few macro economic aggregates to give them a first taste of empirical work.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Economics
- Mathematics
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
- Provider Set:
- Quantitative Writing (SERC)
- Date Added:
- 04/12/2023
This e-book offers resources to support technical experts to communicate with non-technical professionals. It helps users translate their work and adapt their communication to audience needs.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Computer Science
- Computer, Networking and Telecommunications Systems
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- eCampusOntario
- Date Added:
- 08/26/2021
This course uses Lean Launchpad for creating entrepreneurial ventures that start small but can be scaled up fairly quickly. You should you take this class only IF you are interested in creating such ventures. This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it's like to actually start a high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a business plan. It's not an exercise on how smart you arein a classroom, or how well you use the research library to size markets. This is a practical class essentially a lab, not a theory or "book" class. Our goal, within the constraints of a classroom and a limited amount of time, is to create an entrepreneurial experience for you with all of the pressures and demands of the real world in an early stage start up.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Management
- Material Type:
- Syllabus
- Provider:
- CUNY Academic Works
- Provider Set:
- City College
- Author:
- Arora, Punit
- Date Added:
- 01/01/2019
Technology has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades. Currently, virtually all business industries are powered by large quantities of data. The potential as well as actual uses of business data, which oftentimes includes personal user data, raise complex issues of informed consent and data protection. This course will explore many of these complex issues, with the goal of guiding students into thinking about tech policy from a broad ethical perspective as well as preparing students to responsibly conduct themselves in different areas and industries in a world growingly dominated by technology.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Business and Communication
- Criminal Justice
- Education
- Educational Technology
- Engineering
- Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
- Law
- Management
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Syllabus
- Provider:
- CUNY Academic Works
- Provider Set:
- Baruch College
- Author:
- Lev-Aretz, Yafit
- Packin, Nizan
- Date Added:
- 08/15/2020
Willow Tufano is only 14, but she's already accomplished something many adults dream of. She's a homeowner! She got her start selling things she found on Craigslist and worked her way up to being able to buy a house! Watch her story here.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Finance
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Lecture
- Provider:
- The Ellen Show
- Date Added:
- 04/08/2023
Telluride, CO Mining Town. Western Mining History presents a brief summary of Colorado's Historical Mining Towns with links to additional Colorado resources for a mining town database and mines by county. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides information on mining, mining towns, the gold and silver rush, and Photos and maps of the western United States. This is a strong primary source resource that can be used for a variety of class research projects. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Applied Science
- Business and Communication
- Chemistry
- Cultural Geography
- Earth and Space Science
- Economics
- English Language Arts
- Environmental Science
- Geology
- Geoscience
- Graphic Design
- History
- Marketing
- New Media and Technology
- Physical Geography
- Physical Science
- Reading Informational Text
- Social Science
- Sociology
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Data Set
- Primary Source
- Reading
- Provider:
- Western Mining History
- Provider Set:
- Colorado Mining Towns
- Date Added:
- 02/06/2023
The testbank includes 377 peer-reviewed, multiple-choice questions which correspond to topics taught in introductory-level business open textbook, "Fundamentals of Business." "Fundamentals of Business" is a freely available, openly licensed resource available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848 .
Between 11-29 multiple-choice items are available for each of the following topics: Teamwork in Business, Foundations of Business, Economics and Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Forms of Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Management and Leadership, Structuring Organizations, Operations Management, Motivating Employees, Managing Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value to Customers, Pricing Strategy, Hospitality and Tourism, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.
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- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Material Type:
- Assessment
- Provider:
- Virginia Tech
- Provider Set:
- VTech Works
- Author:
- Bamgarner Sarah
- Cortes Anastasia
- Futyma Frank
- Goodwin Thomas
- Hertweck Bryan
- Manfred Michelle
- Poff Ron
- Tuttle Mallory
- Walz Anita
- Watters Sheila
- Date Added:
- 05/09/2023
This is a solver for problems involving the time value of money (TVM). It emulates the TVM solver on the TI-83+ and TI-84 graphing calculators. Updated 6 November 2011 to work correctly when I% = 0.
- Subject:
- Business and Communication
- Finance
- Geometry
- Mathematics
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Provider:
- GeoGebra
- Provider Set:
- GeoGebraTube
- Date Added:
- 04/26/2012
Western Mining History tours ten western mining towns that have made significant contributions to their state and mineral extraction in the western United States. The ten featured towns include photos and a brief history. Primary source Historical|Photographs and modern photographs are included. The resource is a nice virtual field trip of 10 significant "wild west" mining towns. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides databases, information on mining, mining towns, gold and Photos and maps of the western United States. This photo gallery provide an excellent collection of primary sources for historical analysis in the classroom. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site. Suggested use: Students might compare the color image to black and white versions on other parts of the Western Mining History site to discuss how color affects our interpretation and response to the image.
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Business and Communication
- Cultural Geography
- Earth and Space Science
- Economics
- English Language Arts
- Finance
- History
- Physical Geography
- Reading Informational Text
- Social Science
- Sociology
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Reading
- Provider:
- Western Mining History
- Provider Set:
- Mining History
- Date Added:
- 02/06/2023
Western Mining History presents a short history of how a warehouse fire ignited a dynamite explosion that destroyed several blocks in Butte, Montana in 1895. Western Mining History is an historical site that provides databases, information on mining, mining towns, gold and Photos and maps of the western United States. Consider becoming a member or making a donation to help further the work of the site.
- Subject:
- Anthropology
- Business and Communication
- Cultural Geography
- Earth and Space Science
- Economics
- English Language Arts
- Finance
- History
- Physical Geography
- Physical Science
- Reading Informational Text
- Social Science
- Sociology
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Primary Source
- Reading
- Provider:
- Western Mining History
- Provider Set:
- Mining History
- Date Added:
- 02/06/2023