Slow Boat PowerPoint

11 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Bryan Hubbard, Alyssa Panitch, Tahira Reid, Kari Clase, Nancy Irene Tyrie, James Daniel Lehman

The PowerPoint slides which accompanied the Slow Boat design task at the 2013 Summer Institute.

Whirligigs PowerPoint

11 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

PowerPoint slides for Whirligig activity on day 1 of the 2013 SLED Summer Institute.

Introduction to Engineering Design

11 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

PowerPoint slides on engineering design from day 1 of the 2013 SLED Summer Institute.

Circuits PowerPoint

10 Jun 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David C Eichinger, Erin K Doherty, James Daniel Lehman, Venkatesh Merwade

PowerPoint slides to accompany the Design of a Door Alarm task.

Sound Lesson PowerPoint

10 Jun 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David C Eichinger, Erin K Doherty, James Daniel Lehman, Venkatesh Merwade

PowerPoint slides to accompany the Designing Musical Instruments for a Rock Band lesson.

Technology Guide: Glogster

13 Aug 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Constance A. Harris

Step by step guide on how to use Glogster from the Summer Institute.

Lessons From Thin Air

21 Jun 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kathy Daniels

This is a 56 minute video at the Minds of Our Own website. There are three videos at this site, but the one addressing "where a tree comes from" is found in the second video called "Lessons from Thin Air". Minutes 3 through 6 are great to show your students helping them see even Ivy League...

NEED National Energy Education Development Carbon Cycle Activity

20 Jun 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kathy Daniels

This is the curriculum guide from NEED that has several activities including the Carbon Cycle Activity done during the summer 2012 Research Goes to School PBL workshop.National Energy Education Development Project

Student Info Sheet based on Learning Styles

18 Jun 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kathy Daniels

This is a sheet I pass out on the first day of class to help identify student learning styles. This can be helpful information for grouping strategies and for lesson planning throughout the year.I am also attaching a Powerpoint I use on the second day to help the students understand learning styles.

Greenergy Supplemental Information

28 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Kari Clase

RGS (Research Goes to School) 2012 Participant Materials on Green Energy

Lab 4: Broader Significance and Real-World Applications

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

Today's lab activity aims to integrate the knowledge you have acquired over the past three weeks with "real world" challenges and constraints that may accompany restoration decisions. Working in groups, you will (1) address a series of questions about your team's approach to your particular...

Two steps forward: Interpreting results reported with scientific figures

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Pelaez, Harmony Dalgleish

The focus of the module is on interpreting figures from the scientific literature. To do this, students must differentiate between categorical and continuous variables, identify the dependent and independent variable, understand treatments, interpret visual presentation of variation and draw and...

Cisplatin: Observation and Serendipity

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): James Forney

This lesson is part of a sophomore level biochemistry course to introduce the concepts of experimental design. Students are provided with the description of an experiment designed to examine the effect of an electric field on bacterial growth. They are given initial observations from the...

Animal Physiology: Size and Surface Area in Animal Physiology

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Pelaez, Harmony Dalgleish

The major goals of the module are for students to a) be exposed to the overwhelming importance of size in an animal's life; b) understand the relationships between surface area, volume, and size; and c) see how the relationship between surface area and its volume is fundamental to the operation...

Listen! Do you smell something? Signal Detection Theory in Biology

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Ed Bartlett

How do organisms detect changes in their environment, and how do scientists and their instruments detect changes in experimental conditions, such as: How does a photoreceptor detect the presence of a photon? How does a doctor detect the presence of a tumor? How does a cell detect the presence of...

Experimental Design

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Ann Rundell, Kate Stuart

This module is intended to refresh or introduce students to aspects of experimental design, enhance their understanding that the experiment design should support appropriate statistical analysis of the data, and promote the students' recognition that there is often more than one possible way to...

Lab 1: Plant Responses to Burn Season at Konza Prairie

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

This lab uses data published in Towne and Kemp (2003) to investigate the effects of fire disturbance on plant populations and communities in the tallgrass prairie. You will create and interpret graphical representations of the data to evaluate the central question of the lab (stated below) and a...

Lab 2: Plant Responses to Burn Season at Prophetstown State Park

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

In this lab we will collect our own data on plant community composition in a recently restored tallgrass prairie site at Prophetstown State Park. We aim to compare the communities of two parcels that are burned in different seasons, and ultimately compare our results to those reported for Konza...

Lab 3: Data Analysis and Interpretation

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

In your writing assignment for Week 1 you generated at least one hypothesis and prediction for each of these questions. The writing assignment for Week 2 asked you to state the comparisons that are necessary to test your predictions. Today, you will work in pairs to complete some simple graphs...