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"Overview: Given the extensive literature on the composition and evolution of continental crust there are a number of teaching strategies that can be employed to encourage active learning by students. A critical reading of this collection of articles will prov...
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CS Principles 2019-2020 5.9: "if-else-if" and Conditional Logic
"Overview: In this lesson, students will be introduced to the boolean (logic) operators NOT, AND, and OR as tools for creating compound boolean conditions in if statements. Students will learn how to more efficiently exp...
Kate Chopin's The Awakening
"Overview: In this curriculum unit, students will explore how Chopin stages the possible roles for women in Edna's time and culture through the examples of other characters in the novella. Subject: Literature Level: Hig...
Blended training for students - international student projects
"Overview: This course will help students in a university setting to prepare for projects with a problem-based learning approach in an international environment. It will support you to define your role as a student, give...
IS 278 Syllabus: Networks
"Overview: Texts: Bonaventure, O., Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice, Release 0.25, Saylor Foundation, 2011. http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Computer-Networking-Principles-B...
Geology F20 Lectures
"DESCRIPTION Examines the nature of Earth's interior processes from a geologic perspective. Need not be taken in sequence. Field trips will occasionally substitute for labs, with multiple options to ensure accessibility...
Observation Theory: Estimating the Unknown
"Overview: Are you an engineer, scientist or technician? Are you dealing with measurements or big data, but are you unsure about how to proceed? This is the course that teaches you how to find the best estimates of the u...
Project: Growing Up Digital
In this unit, students will produce two major pieces of work. The first piece is an argument essay that grapples with one of the core questions of the unit: who are we, and who have we become because of the ways we conn...
Solving Geometry Problems: Floodlights
"Overview: This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to identify and use geometrical knowledge to solve a problem. In particular, this unit aims to identify and help students who hav...
Swinging with Style
"Overview: Students experientially learn about the characteristics of a simple physics phenomenon the pendulum by riding on playground swings. They use pendulum terms and a timer to experiment with swing variables. They...
Modeling: Rolling Cups
"Overview: This lesson unit is intended to help teachers assess how well students are able to: choose appropriate mathematics to solve a non-routine problem; generate useful data by systematically controlling variables;...
Renewable Energy Living Lab: Exploring Regional and Local Resources
"Overview: Students become familiar with the online Renewable Energy Living Lab interface and access its real-world solar energy data to evaluate the potential for solar generation in various U.S. locations. They become...
Problem-Based Learning: UV Menace
"Overview: Students work as a team to determine the causes, effects, and solutions to ozone depletion. They work out what they need to know, and split the team up to research different parts of the issue. (Note: this...
Calculating Clones
"Overview: In this video segment from Cyberchase, Inez and Lucky figure out how to keep track of the number of clones as they continue to multiply. Subject: Mathematics Level: Upper Primary, Middle School, Career / Tech...
A Nanotube Space Elevator
"Overview: In this video adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, find out about the discovery of a new building material, the carbon nanotube, whose physical properties could theoretically enable the creation of a 22,000-mile elev...
Trebuchet Launch
"Overview: Students work as engineers to design and test trebuchets (in this case LEGO® MINDSTORMS® robots) that can launch objects. During the testing stage, they change one variable at a time to study its effect on the...
Falling Water
"Overview: Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. They...
Fence That Farmland!
"Overview: Students develop and solidify their understanding of the concept of ""perimeter"" as they engage in a portion of the civil engineering task of land surveying. Specifically, they measure and calculate the perim...
Planet Watch 2000
"Overview: In this problem-based learning activity, students are presented with the scenario that they are representatives of an organization that is tasked with evaluating the potential effects of a warming climate on N...
Using Digital Tools for a Purpose & How Computers Work- grade 2
"Overview: This Digital Citizenship unit was created by the Snohomish School District. This strand in the unit focuses on: How Computers Work & Using Digital Tools for a Purpose. Subject: Educational Technology Level: L...
Digital Survival Skills Module 1: My Media Environment
"Overview: The information revolution of the 21st century is as significant and transformative as the industrial revolution of the 19th century. In this unit, students – and by proxy their families – will learn about the...