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Dunes, Boxcars, and Ball Jars: Mining the Great Lakes Shores
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Dunes, Boxcars, and Ball Jars: Mining the Great Lakes Shores
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students estimate the volume of sand in Hoosier Slide, a large dome-shaped dune quarried away in the 1920s from what is now Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. They also estimate the number of boxcars to carry the sand, and the number of Ball jars produced from it.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Denise Davis
Len Vacher
Tiffany Roberts
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Earth's Planetary Density: Constraining What We Think about the Earth's Interior
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Earth's Planetary Density: Constraining What We Think about the Earth's Interior
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to forward calculate the Earth's aggregate density from combinations of densities and thicknesses of the Earth's four shells.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Len Vacher
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Frequency of Large Earthquakes -- Introducing Some Elementary Statistical Descriptors
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Frequency of Large Earthquakes -- Introducing Some Elementary Statistical Descriptors
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students examine the number of large earthquakes (magnitude 7 and above) per year for 1970-1999 and 1940-1999. QL: descriptors of a frequency distribution.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Len Vacher
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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How Far is Yonder Mountain? -- A Trig Problem
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How Far is Yonder Mountain? -- A Trig Problem
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use Polya's problem-solving heuristic to find the distance of a peak using vertical angles sighted from a wagon train heading toward the peak.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Len Vacher
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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How Large is a Ton of Rock? -- Thinking about Rock Density
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How Large is a Ton of Rock? -- Thinking about Rock Density
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to calculate the edge length of cubes and diameter of spheres of various rocks starting with their mineralogic composition.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Len Vacher
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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How Large is the Great Pyramid of Giza? -- Would it make a wall that would enclose France?
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How Large is the Great Pyramid of Giza? -- Would it make a wall that would enclose France?
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students calculate the volume of the Great Pyramid and, following Napoleon, estimate whether its volume is large enough to make a wall around France.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Len Vacher
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Let's Take a Hike in Catoctin Mountain Park
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Let's Take a Hike in Catoctin Mountain Park
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students use a topographic map and spreadsheet to find how many Big Macs they burned off on a five-mile hike at Catoctin Mountain Park.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Denise Davis
Len Vacher
Meghan Lindsey
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Take a Deep Breath on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: How Many Ozone Molecules Do You Inhale?
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Take a Deep Breath on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: How Many Ozone Molecules Do You Inhale?
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students work with ratio and proportion and the concept of mole to calculate the number of molecules of ozone in a volume of air from concentration data.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Earth and Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Amie Fishinger
Len Vacher
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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