A useful website for visualizing the relationship of different OECD countries based on a number of quality of life indicator variables.

Interactive resource codes either "OECD large regions" usually the primary subnational administrative unit of an OECD country -- (eg. states) or "OECD small regions" usually the secondary subnmational administrative unit -- (eg. counties) by demographic, economic and educational statistics. Regions are compared on a color coded map (for any single variable), scatter plot (for any two variables, table lens or data grid (for a large number of variables. Allows transnational comparisons across all rich countries, but also allows the specificity of focusing on subnational -- and sometimes very small -- geographic units.

Led by John Hilton III, with additional contributions from Stacie Mason and Virginia Clinton-Lisell

This review provides a summary of all known empirical research on the impacts of OER adoption (including our own). The version below will be periodically updated with new articles as we become aware of them. If you know of an empirical research study on the impacts of OER adoption that is not included in this review, please leave a comment below. An in-depth article focusing on empirical research relating to perceptions and efficacy at the college level was published by the journal Educational Technology Research and Development in August of 2019.

A 15-20 minute think-pair-share activity interpreting a deep-sea sediment core combining concepts from oceanography, sedimentology, and plate tectonics.

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This is a compilation of FFA Officer Election resources:  applications, recommendation letter templates, interview questions, ballot, and contracts. Also included are notes and sample constitutions from chapters who have successfully restructured officers to President, Secretary, and multiple Vice Presidents, foregoing traditional role titles. 

This Special Collection contains resources to inform your planetarium experience and help you explore the ideas introduced in the Space Show. Resources include articles, interactives, and activities that explain how collisions take place throughout the universe and why understanding them is important.

This activity is a Web investigation and research exercise starting with the 2003-present Anatahan volcanic eruptions in the Mariana arc, and concluding with a petrologic examination of published Mariana arc lavas data sets.

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The Digital Theological Library provides free high-quality content (scholarly articles, theses, ebooks, book chapters, images, newspapers, manuscripts, and more) in religious studies and related disciplines from institutional repositories, publisher websites, scholarly societies, archives, digital collections, including the Library of Congress Digital Collections, the Vatican Library's digitized collections, Australian Islamic Library, Encyclopedia Iranica, and many more.

OpenAlex is a fully open catalog of the global research system. Its dataset describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other. OpenAlex provides documentation and guidance on how to use API to retrieve thier data. Thus, one can this resource to prepare an API workshop or for professional development.

The Open Source movement revolutionized the way computer systems were developed and how companies made their businesses. Its philosophy requires that all source code should be freely shared, so that as many people as possible can use, change, learn, and improve upon it. In recent years the increasing availability and low costs of electronic components, processors and 3D printers meant that an open model of development has taken root also in the world of hardware, including the development of scientific lab equipment. The implications for research can hardly be overstated: “Open Labware” designs are almost always cheaper than “closed source” ones, allow for distributed development and, critically, customization by the end user, the lab scientist. PLOS welcomes submissions in this field.

These data sets include astronomical constants, physical and orbital data for the planets, selected moons, future total solar eclipses, and related data regarding nearby stars, chemical elements, and constellations.

This exercise is based on recent crystallographic research on the olivine crystal structure published by Redfern et al. (2000). The authors of this study synthesized Fa50 olivine olivine (MgFeSiO4) in an experimental apparatus at temperatures ranging from 100 to 1250 °C, quenched the experiments, and used in situ neutron powder diffraction techniques to investigate changes in the synthesized olivines as a function of temperature. While this study reports cutting-edge materials research carried out with the latest crystallographic techniques, the results are educationally instructive and illustrate important concepts normally covered in an undergraduate mineralogy course.

In this exercise, students are guided into the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database to retrieve and download published crystal structure data for viewing in either the CrystalMaker or XtalDraw visualization software packages. The students are instructed on how to manipulate the structures and are asked to plot some of the crystallographic data from this study on graphs using a spreadsheet program such as Excel.

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The ORSEA program connects math and science educators with scientists to create and pilot lessons centered around marine-focused anchoring phenomena. ORSEA supports data science education and ocean literacy, while also exposing students to a variety of marine-related careers. This project is funded by Oregon Sea Grant and the National Science Foundation through OSU's Regional Class Research Vessel Project.

Currently there are 23 lessons/units integrate math and marine science in units and lessons for students in grades 6 - 12.

In this lab exercise, students use and substantial spreadsheet of major, minor and trace element data compiled from studies of the Dinkey Creek pluton (Sierra Nevada batholith) and its microgranular mafic enclaves. The use of the Excel Add-in Petroplot is a must for this exercise to save time. The Petroplot Add-in and its instructions can be found at the following web site: Petroplot Add-in

Some familiarity with Excel is assumed. I've included a handout introducing the problem and discussing mafic enclaves in the Sierra Nevada batholith. Pictures of typical enclaves are provided and can be dumped into Powerpoint for lecture purposes. Several questions [and answers] about to the student-produced graphs are included, but certainly are not exhaustive. The utility of the exercise is to familiarize students with major and trace element discrimination diagrams and spreadsheet databases as tools to consider if magma mixing can explain the origin of the mafic enclaves in this pluton.

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This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity.