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  1. Desk Review of the Tusome Early Grade Reading Progam

    10 Jan 2020

    Final Desk ReviewKenya ‘Tusome’ Case Study: one-year grant to examine the process of scaling up of Kenya’s early grade reading program from 2011 to 2018 to enable USAID to better understand the scaling up process and to foster replication (Makerere, CRS, U....

  2. Dog gone it!

    08 Jun 2015 | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, Todd Richard Kelley, Chell Nyquist, James Daniel Lehman

    This design challenge, for students in grade 3, focuses on simple and compound machines. The objective of the challenge is to design a compound machine to help a large breed of dog to get into and out of the back of a car.

  3. Dr. Nate Mosier's Virtual Field Trip on Developing Biofuels

    04 Dec 2012 | Contributor(s): Nate Mosier, Lisa Paulette Kirkham

    Dr. Nate Mosier, Associate Professor of Ag and Biological Engineering, presents a 30 minute virtual field trip for high school STEM students. Dr. Mosier and his graduate assistant, Barron Hewetson, describe work they are doing on the conversion of biomass to biofuels, with a special emphasis on...

  4. Drink Pouch

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

    This 3rd grade design activity is focused on creating a drink pouch that can keep a drink cool in the hot sun.

  5. Earthen Dam Design Task

    03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, James Daniel Lehman

    This grade 3 design task focuses on earth materials and the construction of an earthen dam.

  6. Earthen Dam PowerPoint

    10 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, David C Eichinger, James Daniel Lehman

    PowerPoint slides for Earthen Dam activity during the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.

  7. EDCI Catapults Sp 2012

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

  8. 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.

  9. EDCI Strong Book Nook Fall 2011

    28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco

    Grade 6 lesson plan, engineering design process.

  10. Electricity PowerPoint for Light Just Right

    13 Jun 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    These PowerPoint slides accompany the Light Just Right design lesson.

  11. Engineering Design Assessment PowerPoint

    29 Jun 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Colleen Cooper, James Daniel Lehman, Aaron Hamilton

    This PowerPoint presentation accompanied the session on engineering design assessment at the SLED summer workshops in 2017.

  12. Erosion Lesson (Canal) PowerPoint

    10 Jun 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, David C Eichinger, James Daniel Lehman

    PowerPoint slides for the erosion lesson associated with the canal design task from the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.

  13. Exploring Packaging Design PowerPoint

    23 May 2011 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    PowerPoint slides for Exploring Packaging Design activity from teacher orientation.Brenda Capobianco

  14. Exploring Whirligigs

    09 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

    This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...

  15. Extracting Energy From Plants: Why is this important? A Virtual Field Trip by Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar

    06 Feb 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Lisa Paulette Kirkham

    Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar, Robert Wetherill Professor of Chemistry, presents a 20 minute virtual field trip for high school STEM students. Dr. Abu-Omar describes work he is doing on the conversion of biomass to biofuels, emphasizing techniques for breaking down lignin in plant materials. Lignin contains...

  16. Follow-Up: Creating a Bar Graph in Excel

    11 Jan 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This narrated video shows how to create a bar graph in Excel with data from the M&M activity.

  17. Follow-Up: Creating a Line Graph in Excel

    11 Jan 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This narrated video shows how to create a line graph in Excel using data from measurements of the shadow cast by a stick at various times throughout one day.

  18. Follow-Up: Creating a Pie Chart in Excel

    11 Jan 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This narrated video shows how to create a pie chart in Excel using data about a set of coins that can help with concepts of probability.

  19. Follow-Up: Creating a Scatterplot in Excel

    11 Jan 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This narrated video shows how to create a scatterplot or XY graph in Excel using data from the measurement of the circumference and diameter of various circular objects.

  20. Follow-Up: Introduction to Data Visualization with Excel

    11 Jan 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

    This narrated PowerPoint presentation introduces this SLED online follow-up activity on using Excel to create various kinds of graphs or charts to visualize a data set.