EDCI Handy Hydration Sp 12

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Ashley Jones, Haylee Anna Wilson

EDcI lesson plan on creating a drink carrier system for students using crutches or a wheelchair.

EDCI Can You Canoe Sp12

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Heather Ann Post, Kalie Thompson

EDCI lesson plan about the science concepts of mass, volume, bouyancy.

EDCI 365 Shady Lunch Spring 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Alexis Vesey, Michelle Kuta

EDCI lesson plan about shadows relative to the relationship between the Earth and Sun.

EDCI Rollercoaster Energy Spring 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brooke Ann Winebrenner, Cassie Timmons

EDCI lesson plan about potential and kinetic energy.

EDCI Kicking Machine Sp. 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Barbara Kroemer, Kara Ann Fletcher

EDCI 365 Lesson Plan about creating a Kicking Machine design task. The science content focus is potential and kinetic energy.

EDCI Ship the Chip Sp 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Jenny Meyer, Hannah Henry

This is a lesson plan completed in EDCI 365 about packaging engineering. Students pack a single chip to another school.

EDCI Animals and Engineering Spring 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Cary Mark Yorn, Lindsey Mae Flajs, Kieran Maureen McMullen

This is an EDCI 365 lesson plan about animal relationships and their ecosystems.

EDCI Carefully Carrying Cans Spring 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Abby McLean, Morgan Richter

EDCI lesson plan about creating a carrier for a six pack of soda.

EDCI Catapults Sp 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Mary Hildebrand, Andrea Levrio

Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT)

26 Mar 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Kevin Harris

This 47 minute video is from the Critical Thinking Assessment Test(CAT)webinar held on March 20, 2012. The CAT assesses a broad range of skills that are important components of critical thinking and problem-solving. The test questions are derived from real world situations. Most of the questions...

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...

Osmosis and the Representation of Data

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Stephanie Gardner

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