This is an activity about orbital mechanics. Learners will investigate how lateral velocity affects the orbit of a spacecraft such as the ISS. Mathematical extensions are provided. This is science activity 1 of 2 found in the ISS L.A.B.S. Educator Resource Guide.

This is a lesson about crystal growth. Leaners will grow a sugar crystal and learn how this relates to growing protein crystals in space. The lack of gravity allows scientists on the space station to grow big, almost perfect crystals, which are used to help design new medicines. This is science activity 2 of 2 found in the ISS L.A.B.S. Educator Resource Guide.

Data source updated on quarterly basis to assess Australia's national balance of good and services, credits, and debits.

Using web-accessed climate data, students will examine the latitudinal distribution of CO2 and explain how (and why) that has changed over (recent) time. They will then work in groups of two or three to download, graph, and interpret carbon dioxide concentration data from one individual location (different groups will be assigned a different site). Each student will complete a series of questions to ensure their understanding of the concepts outlined above.

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Interview protocol used to learn faculty use and perception of OER and the support needed

Provides statistical information pertaining to homicides, rapes, robberies, and assaults committed by intimates.

la compilación de información, tiene como finalidad facilitar a las personas usuarias la comprensión de la temática de administración y las etapas de su proceso.

Students will discover their personal political leanings through a website and express their opinion on their perceived accuracy of those findings

This course introduces students to the scientific study of the mind and behavior and to the applications of psychological theory to life. Topics include: research methods; biopsychology; lifespan development; memory; learning; social psychology; personality; and psychological health and disorders. This course will establish a foundation for subsequent study in psychology. Resources include: Video, Articles, and Class Activities.

The microscopic world is full of phenomena very different from what we see in everyday life. Some of those phenomena can only be explained using quantum mechanics. This activity introduces basic quantum mechanics concepts about electrons that are essential to understanding modern and future technology, especially nanotechnology. Start by exploring probability distribution, then discover the behavior of electrons with a series of simulations.

Introduction to seismic theory, measurements and processing of seismic data to final focussed image for geological and/or physical interpretation.This course deals with the most important aspects of reflection seismics. Theory of seismic waves, aspects of data acquisition (seismic sources, receivers and recorders), and of data processing (CMP processing, velocity analysis, stacking, migration) will be dealt with. The course will be supplemented by a practical of 6 afternoons where the students will see the most important data-processing steps via exercises (in Matlab).

This lesson provides a way for students to determine the relationship between the distance from a light source and its brightness. Once students discover the relationship, they can begin to understand how astronomers use this knowledge to determine the distances to stars and far away galaxies.

This is a college-level adaptation of a chapter from the Earth Exploration Toolbook. The students download global quake data over a time range and use GIS to interpret the tectonic context.

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Students and faculty participate in an integrated effort to characterize hydrologic relationships using hydrologic, geologic & geophysical data

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HideA screen-shot from Google Earth showing chlorophyll concentrations in the equatorial Pacific. This is the data that students use in the exercise. Details In this activity, students are split into groups and assigned different ocean regions. These include the Arabian Sea, Equatorial Pacific, North Atantic, and Southern Ocean. Each group uses Google Earth to view NASA satellite chlorophyll imagery and the cruise track of data collected as part of the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study. At three locations along each cruise track, chlorophyll-temperature-depth (CTD) and bottle data collected as part of the study can be downloaded. Students work with the data to identify oceanographic features as a function of depth and then make simple calculations.

In the second component of the exercise, monthly mean chlorophyll a satellite imagery is also included and students speculate about the annual cycle of physical and biological processes based on that time series. Students compile the results into a presentation for the class. Each group should have different responses to the questions asked and different results for the calculations because each ocean region is very different. This easily leads into a discussion about the major ecological provinces of the ocean and what factors cause variability.

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This is a problem set designed to be used in an introductory or advanced petrology course, either as an exercise in conjunction with a laboratory assignment or as a stand-alone assignment. It could also be easily modified to be suitable for an exam exercise. The problem set uses field data to help teach the determination and balancing mixed-volatile reactions and locating isograds in siliceous dolomites in a contact aureole. Concepts explored in the problem set can be used to establish a framework for later discussions of T-X(CO2) diagrams, fluids in contact aureoles, and thermal gradients in the crust.
Note that mapped assemblages have been somewhat simplified from the field data (Roselle 1997). Where brucite was observed in the aureole it has been mapped as periclase. All of the assemblages are '3-phase' except for the mapped assemblages of Dol+ Qtz+ Cal+ Tr. This assemblage can be the focus of a question regarding crossing tie-lines and the 'quartz-out' isograd. To simplify the exercise the open triangle symbols can be filled, making the assemblage Dol+ Cal+ Tr. Any of the questions below can be made a bit more straightforward by including more guiding text (or the reverse), depending on the preparation of the students.
The Ubehebe aureole is an excellent locality to use to teach metamorphic reactions in siliceous dolomites (Peck, 2003), and has the advantage of the availability of supplementary data for other exercises (mineral textures, Roselle, 1997; Roselle et al., 1997; stable isotopes, Roselle et al., 1999; remote sensing, Kozak et al., 2004). Ubehebe is also a case study discussed in Best's Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology (2003). Winter's (2001) textbook discusses the Alta contact aureole. A similar problem set could be easily made by using data from Alta (Cook and Bowman, 2000).

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This second introductory lesson in GeoMapApp begins with a historical look at methods of surveying the seafloor, from lead line surveys to modern multibeam and side-scan sonar. Then, a series of instructions takes students trough the bathymetric tools of GeoMapApp. Activity includes both student and instructor versions.

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