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Shifting Attitudes on the Second Shift: A Statistical Analysis of Women and Work
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Shifting Attitudes on the Second Shift: A Statistical Analysis of Women and Work
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(How) have public attitudes about work and gender changed over the last 25 years? Using the General Social Survey (available online) students will conduct a descriptive statistical analysis of Americans perceptions about women and work from 1988. They will then contextualize their findings within the contemporary literature about these issues.

Subject:
Social Studies
Sociology and Anthropology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Liz Raleigh
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Shifting Sands: Quantifying Shoreline and Dune Migration at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
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Shifting Sands: Quantifying Shoreline and Dune Migration at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore
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Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students use weighted averages and data from air photos from 1939 to 2005 to calculate the rate of retreat of the shoreline and the advance of the front of dunes along the shoreline.

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:
Mark Horwitz
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Shrinky Dink Chemistry
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Shrinky Dink Chemistry
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This activity is a hands-on activity where students learn about polymers and the science of plastics, while making shrinky dinks.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
betsy julien
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Signs and Tracks of Animals
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Signs and Tracks of Animals
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Students will examine clues about animals such as nests, leaves, feathers, fur, tracks that allow some conclusions about the identity, physical characteristics or behavior of the animals. Students will study the characteristics of animal tracks.

Subject:
Life Science
Zoology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Susanne Grimm
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Simple Mendelian Genetics: An interactive lecture using "DNA from the Beginning"
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Simple Mendelian Genetics: An interactive lecture using "DNA from the Beginning"
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An interactive lecture that uses flash animations showing the researcher and their experiments that were used to develop the basic concepts in Mendelian genetics. Includes multiple choice questions students can answer in class.

Subject:
Ecology
Genetics
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jeff Bell
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Simple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference
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Simple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference
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Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to tabulate, graph and compare the future value of investments with compound vs. simple interest. Spreadsheet level: beginner.

Subject:
Economics
Mathematics
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Gary Franchy
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Simulating a P-value for Testing a Correlation with Fathom
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Simulating a P-value for Testing a Correlation with Fathom
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This activity has students use Fathom to test the correlation between attendance and ballpark capacity of major league baseball teams by taking a sample of actual data and scrambling one of the variables to see how the correlation behaves when the variables are not related. After displaying the distribution of correlations for many simulated samples, students find an approximate p-value based on the number of simulations that exceed the actual correlation.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Data Set
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Robin Lock
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Simulating the Effect of Sample Size on the Sampling Distribution of the Mean
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Simulating the Effect of Sample Size on the Sampling Distribution of the Mean
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A java applet that simulates the sampling distribution of the mean. It allows students to explore the effect of sample size.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Data Set
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
David Lane
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Sinking Water: A Connection With Glaciers, Ocean Currents and Weather Patterns
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Sinking Water: A Connection With Glaciers, Ocean Currents and Weather Patterns
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This lesson has activities where students will learn about buoyancy and explore how hot water rises and cold water sinks. As an extension and real-life application, students will see that glacial run-off is occurring at a rapid pace and the cold glacial water could potentially change ocean currents thus influencing global climates.

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:
Stanley Mraz
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Sinking and Floating Water
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Sinking and Floating Water
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This activity is a classroom lab where students learn that cold water is denser and hot water is less dense than room temperature water. Students perform an experiment and relate to their background knowledge to make conjectures.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
nancy thill
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Sink or Float: All Liquids Do Not Have the Same Density
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Sink or Float: All Liquids Do Not Have the Same Density
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This activity is a classroom experiment where students participate or observe that different densities of liquids will yield different results in a sink-or-float activity.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Simulation
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Sink or Float? Inquiry Investigation
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Sink or Float? Inquiry Investigation
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Students explore and experiment with various objects to find which materials will float or sink. They record predictions and results, and generate ideas about the properties of materials that float or sink.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Six Simple Machines: How They Combine to Form Commonly Used Complex Machines
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Six Simple Machines: How They Combine to Form Commonly Used Complex Machines
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In this classroom/lab activity students investigate how complex machines are made up of simple machines by dissecting four common household appliances.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Technology and Engineering
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Lea Matykiewicz
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Snails: Population Calculation in an Aquatic Environment
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Snails: Population Calculation in an Aquatic Environment
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In this field investigation, students will identify and determine the population size of snails in an aquatic environment.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jason Marsh
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Soil vs. Rocks
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Soil vs. Rocks
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This lesson will extend the learning on rocks with the Foss kit, Pebbles, Sand, and Silt to include soil. Students will perform the soil sifting activity like the one designed for rocks in the Foss it. Through their work, students will complete a Venn diagram of soil and rocks as a class.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Ama Xiong
Date Added:
02/10/2023
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Solid and Liquid Density Investigation
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Solid and Liquid Density Investigation
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Students will explore with solids and liquids to discover what density is. Students will be involved in small group experiments and a full group experiment. Observing, predicting, exploring and discovering are all included in this lesson.

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