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English Language Learners Create a Botanic Field Guide
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English Language Learners Create a Botanic Field Guide
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ELL students create and share a botanic field guide incorporating depiction, measurement, description, and classification of common Minnesota trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and plants.

Subject:
Botany
Education
Language Education (ESL)
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Data Set
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Nenette Onstad
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Environmental Education: Reading Poetry Fluently
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Environmental Education: Reading Poetry Fluently
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This activity produces a fluent choral reading of Our Big Home: An Earth Poem, by Linda Glaser, when cooperative student groups rehearse, conduct vocabulary word study, and perform for their 4th grade peers.

Subject:
Environmental Science
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Lorraine Aaland
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Environmental Interactions: Connectedness of a Natural System
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Environmental Interactions: Connectedness of a Natural System
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This is a field investigation of how a natural system is organized and the interconnectedness of an ecosystem.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Paul Jeffery
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Environmental Science Gallery Walk
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Environmental Science Gallery Walk
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Gallery walk activity that relies on students' prior knowledge of environmental issues as an introductory activity in a general education, large-lecture format environmental science class.

Subject:
Ecology
Environmental Science
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Rachel Headley
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Erosion in Our World
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Erosion in Our World
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This activity is a field investigation where students find real-life examples of erosion in their school surroundings. Students will extend what they learned during stream table lessons about erosion, deposition, deltas, meandering streams, and dams.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Abbey Payeur
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Erosion in Our World
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Erosion in Our World
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This activity is a field investigation where students observe evidence of erosion and deposition in the schoolyard or designated area.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Erin Leitner
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Evaporation: Investigating Factors That Affect It
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Evaporation: Investigating Factors That Affect It
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This activity is an investigation regarding evaporation and the factors that affect it.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Dennis Martin
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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The Evolution of Pearsons Correlation Coefficient/Exploring Relationships between Two Quantitative Variables
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The Evolution of Pearsons Correlation Coefficient/Exploring Relationships between Two Quantitative Variables
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The evolution of ideas is often ignored in the teaching of statistics. It is important to show students how definitions and formulas evolve. This activity describes a fairly straightforward activity of how measures of association can evolve.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Gary Kader
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Examining Prosocial Behavior Quantitatively: An Activity for Introductory Psychology Students
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Examining Prosocial Behavior Quantitatively: An Activity for Introductory Psychology Students
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For this psychology project, students in small groups will design and execute a study on helping behavior and then analyze and interpret the results.

Subject:
Psychology
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Kenneth Abrams
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Examining Topography and Stream Discharge at Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge
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Examining Topography and Stream Discharge at Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge
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In this inquiry based geologic field lab students will be estimating and measuring stream flow. Students will also map out a full scale live topography map of a dry streambed to help them estimate flow discharge. Students will use their journals to record their hypothesis, lab report questions, graphed data and evidence to backs up their observations.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Todd Keonig
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Exercise to Calculate River Discharge
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Exercise to Calculate River Discharge
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use field data from rivers to understand how river discharge is calculated.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Nicholas Baer
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Exo- and Endo-thermic Processes
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Exo- and Endo-thermic Processes
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This lab activity leads students to a better understanding of exo-endo- thermic processes. It also reinforces the necessity for proper lab safety equipment and disposal techniques.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Joan Foley
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Experiencing Newton's 3rd Law with Match Stick Rockets
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Experiencing Newton's 3rd Law with Match Stick Rockets
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This is a field investigation where students experience Newton's 3rd law of motion.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jason Morzenti
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Experiment Problem in Kinematics: How Much Does it Take to Win the Race?
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Experiment Problem in Kinematics: How Much Does it Take to Win the Race?
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In this activity, students are presented with two objects that have different constant speeds and that will race each other. The students must determine which object will win the race, as well as either how much time elapses between the objects crossing the finish line.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Simulation
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Kathleen Harper
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Experimenting with Angular Diameter and Distance (Study of Outer Space)
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Experimenting with Angular Diameter and Distance (Study of Outer Space)
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This is an activity on apparent sizes and apparent angles, related to understanding how distance affects what we observe in outer space (the sun, moon, stars, or planets).

Subject:
Astronomy
Earth and Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Simulation
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Amy Fahey
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Experimenting with Sound/Compression Waves Through Vibration.
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Experimenting with Sound/Compression Waves Through Vibration.
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This activity is an inquiry lesson where students investigate objects and their associated sound due to vibration. Students will write their observation and interpret how and why sound vibrations occurs.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
chelsi gross
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Experiments with Air
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Experiments with Air
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This activity includes reading a non-ficiton book and trying the experiments with air listed in the book. Students will record their observations regarding the experiments in an observation journal.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Bonnie DePeel
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Explaining Seismic Hazard Probabilities
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Explaining Seismic Hazard Probabilities
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This activity asks students to explain earthquake hazard probabilities to a lay audience of citizens, government officials and others.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Mary Savina
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Exploration of Shadows in the Earth, Moon, and Sun System: Moon Phases and Eclipses
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Exploration of Shadows in the Earth, Moon, and Sun System: Moon Phases and Eclipses
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This guided inquiry activity has students using models to create variations of alignment of the Earth, Moon, and Sun. By varying their arrangement, students will discover how the positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun interact, how shadows can be cast on the Moon and on the Earth, and how Earth's view of the lit portion of the Moon changes.

Subject:
Astronomy
Earth and Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jill Baumtrog
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Exploring Acceleration Through Vectors
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Exploring Acceleration Through Vectors
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This in class worksheet is designed to get students to think about and manipulate different accelerations in their head. Students work together with written descriptions of velocity and acceleration and draw the vectors in part one, and then turn that around in part two where they write descriptions of a car's motion based on the vector pictures they are given.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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