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Persuading with Data: Using data bias to your advantage
The activity is designed as a follow-up to my Data Bias activity (posted for free). Student use what they learned about data bias to create data presentations (graphs, charts) that help prove their point. Multiple scenarios are given where students are trying to convince their parents that their grades/behavior aren't bad.
This activity helps students internalize the power of data bias and makes them more likely to look out for this bias in the real world. This makes for a really fun homew
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7th - 10th
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Modeling Population Growth (Ideal vs. Logistic Model)
This activity provides instructions to construct a mathematical model on a blank spreadsheet that simulates population growth using an ideal model and a logistic model. The activity provides background discussion and then gives instructions on how to program a spreadsheet to produce and display the ideal and logistic population models. Their results are studied for various cases including human population, rabbits, polar bears, bacterial and yeast colonies.
This quantitative population model
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9th - 12th, Staff
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GPS Simulation - Applications of Algebra and Geometry - Aligned with Numb3rs
Are you tired of hearing your students say "When would you ever use this!?" This lesson is a perfect way to silence their complaints!
I originally designed this lesson to be used after watching the episode "Convergence"of the CBS television series Numb3rs. I think every middle/HS teacher should own copies of this series. If you aren't familiar with the show, it is basically a crime show where the characters solve crimes with math. (Similar to CSI) You might be able to download free episodes
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8th - 12th
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Bacterial and Viral Replication Lab
This lab requires you to have raw beans (any kind to model bacteria) and whiteboards for students to draw a family tree and write out generation numbers next to each bacterial generation. (You could also do this on paper.)This lab is a great way for students to simulate bacterial and viral reproduction. For the bacteria, students will model the number of bacteria in each generation starting with only one bacterium (represented by a bean). With each generation, students will watch as the family t
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8th - 9th
Simulating Titration of Acid on a Spreadsheet
This activity guides students to construct a spreadsheet from a blank Excel workbook that will simulate titration of acids or bases.
*Teacher background on Excel is not required*
After constructing the spreadsheet and graphs the students will experiment with the spreadsheet to answer analysis questions that will help students learn the mathematical nature of titration (solutions are provided including descriptions of all spreadsheet manipulations necessary to solve each problem).
The va
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10th - 12th, Higher Education
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Interactive Online ELab Simulations Lab - Shopping Unit Rates Lab
In this FREE online interactive simulation provided by PhET, developed by the University of Colorado, students will explore unit rates through the process of buying goods. Students will explore how shopping uses unit rates to determine the price of various goods. Students will need a computer, tablet or IPad. These simulations were designed for IPad use. This handout goes directly with the Elab and contains directions on accessing the lab online as well as directions on how to complete the lab.
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5th - 8th
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Environmental Science - Water Budget Modeling
Scope of the Lesson:One of the challenges facing educators of climate change is the spatial and temporal separation of the effects of climate change that is perceived by students. In order to help with these separation issues, students need to understand that climate change does not only impact the poles but can have significant local impacts as well. Accessed through the internet, WebWIMP is a Web-based, Water budget, Interactive Modeling Program that in essence is a simple climate model that c
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10th - 12th
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A Fishy Situation
The multiple day activity is a simulation requiring students to collect, organize, categorize, and analyze data concerning a fish population in a lake. Students will discuss sampling, create various graphs, and create their own research plan. Career ties may be biologist, state wildlife and fisheries agents, and environmentalist.
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6th - 8th
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Reasons For Seasons
Students will use an online simulation to investigate how the tilt of the Earth causes seasonal patterns at various latitudes.This activity takes my ninth graders about 35 min.
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8th - 10th
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NGSS:
HS-ESS2-4
Wave on a String Virtual PHET Lab
Goals: Students will be able to:Ø Measure the wavelength on a transverse wave.Ø Explain why frequency and wavelength have no effect on Amplitude.Ø How frequency and wavelength are inversely related by creating a graph from the data.
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-PS4-1
, HS-PS4-1
Also included in: Physical Science Virtual Lab Bundle
Paper Tower Project
Students use a budget to build the most economical tower. They use graphing skills to graph class data. Rubric is attached
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5th - 8th
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Evolution Activity
This is a virtual lab template that students can download and complete using the McGraw-Hill Natural Selection Virtual Lab website. Students complete the activity, gather the data, graph the data, and then draw conclusions from their data. There is a brief tutorial on Schooltube linked to the instructions to further aid students in lab completion.
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8th - 10th
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Snack Stand
Snack Stand is a team based lab in which the students are split into teams (ideal team size is 5), each team will work on their team activities to purchase and sell snacks in the Family Field event. The team with the maximum profit at the end of the 3 hour event wins the competition.
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6th - 12th
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Terminal Velocity Simulation Written on a Spreadsheet
EXPAND THE USE OF SPREADSHEETS IN YOUR PHYSICS CURRICULUM... This Physics activity good for all levels of Physics is a free preview of "The Spreadsheet Lab Manual." It guides students to construct a mathematical simulation starting from a blank spreadsheet that quantitatively models freefall with air resistance as an object reaches terminal velocity. Students will be guided through an inquiry based simulation as they answer assessment questions and gain skills on spreadsheets while manipulati
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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