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Glacier (?) National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Judy McIlrath, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students examine data about the disappearing glaciers in the park; after calculating percentage change in the number of glaciers from 1850 to 2000, they interpolate to estimate when Grinnell glacier will be gone.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Unit conversions, Estimation, Units and Dimensions:Unit Conversions, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Units and Dimensions
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas
Subject: Earth & Space Science:Atmospheric & Climate Science, Environmental Science, Earth & Space Science:Geology, Atmospheric & Climate Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change & Climate, Earth & Space Science
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Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed, Washington DC, 1: Measures of Central Tendency part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Mark C. Rains and Len Vacher, University of South Florida Marian Norris, National Parks Service, Center for Urban Ecology Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students examine the histogram of a positively skewed data set and calculate its mean, median and mode.

Quantitative Concepts: Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Descriptive statistics; trend lines , Visual display of data :XY scatter plots, Basic arithmetic; Number sense, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data , Descriptive statistics; trend lines :Mean, Median; mode, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Average; weighted average
Excel Skills: Statistical Functions:One array:MODE, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:Multiple Plots, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot, Statistical Functions, One array, One array:AVERAGE, MEDIAN, Graphs and Charts
Subject: Earth & Space Science, Ground & Surface Water, Environmental Science:Ecosystem Monitoring, Resource Use & Consequences:Water Quality & Quantity, Environmental Science, Human Populations, Resource Use & Consequences

Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed, Washington DC, 2: Variability part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Mark C. Rains and Len Vacher, University of South Florida Marian Norris, National Parks Service, Center for Urban Ecology Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate standard deviation and z-values to examine a possible outlier in a positively skewed data set.

Quantitative Concepts: Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability, Descriptive statistics; trend lines , Descriptive statistics; trend lines :Standard deviation; variance; range, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Comparisons; percent difference, change, increase, Number operations:Number operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Average; weighted average, Basic arithmetic; Number sense, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data :XY scatter plots, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Descriptive statistics; trend lines :Quartiles; percentiles, Mean, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data , Descriptive statistics; trend lines :Median; mode
Excel Skills: Graphs and Charts, XY Scatterplot, Other Manipulations and Functions, Basic Arithmetic:Percent (format), Statistical Functions:One array:MEDIAN, STDEV, STDEVP, etc, VAR, VARP, etc, Statistical Functions, One array:AVERAGE, COUNT, COUNTA, Statistical Functions:One array, One array:MODE, MAX, MIN, etc, Basic Arithmetic, Simple Formulas
Subject: Earth & Space Science, Environmental Science:Ecosystem Monitoring, Resource Use & Consequences:Water Quality & Quantity, Environmental Science, Resource Use & Consequences

Just How Faithful is Old Faithful? Finding Order in Random Behavior part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Tom Juster, University of South Florida Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks Collection. Students create a histogram to examine the time between geyser eruptions of Old Faithful, Yellowstone National Park.

Quantitative Concepts: Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data :Bar graphs; column graphs; stacked bar graphs, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Rates, Basic arithmetic; Number sense, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data , Probability, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability
Excel Skills: Statistical Functions:One array:COUNT, COUNTA, MAX, MIN, etc, Statistical Functions, Graphs and Charts, Statistical Functions:One array
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Environmental Science, Earth & Space Science, Geology:Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Earth & Space Science:Processes that Shape Earth's Surface, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Earth & Space Science:Geology, Environmental Science:Resource Use & Consequences, Resource Use & Consequences:Land Use & Planning

A Percentage Stroll through Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Tom Juster, University of South Florida Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate percentages and percent differences to compare various measures of fumaroles, mud pots, hot springs and geysers in this introduction to hydrothermal features at Yellowstone NP.

Quantitative Concepts: Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Gathering data , Basic arithmetic; Number sense, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Logarithms; orders of magnitude; scientific notation, Average; weighted average, Unit conversions, Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Rates:Rates of Change, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Rates, Units and Dimensions:Unit Conversions, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Comparisons; percent difference, change, increase, Number operations:Number operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Units and Dimensions
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Percent (format), Simple Formulas, Basic Arithmetic
Subject: Earth & Space Science:Geology:Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Earth & Space Science, Environmental Science:Resource Use & Consequences, Environmental Science, Earth & Space Science:Geology

Dunes, Boxcars, and Ball Jars: Mining the Great Lakes Shores part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Tiffany Roberts, University of South Florida Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students estimate the volume of sand in Hoosier Slide, a large dome-shaped dune quarried away in the 1920s from what is now Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. They also estimate the number of boxcars to carry the sand, and the number of Ball jars produced from it.

Quantitative Concepts: Geometry; Trigonometry , Other solid figures, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Units and Dimensions, Comparisons; percent difference, change, increase, Number operations:Number operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Unit conversions, Estimation, Units and Dimensions:Unit Conversions, Geometry; Trigonometry :Squares and rectangles, Basic arithmetic; Number sense, Units and Dimensions:Dimensions, Geometry; Trigonometry :Spheres
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Nested Formulas, Basic Arithmetic, Angles and Trig Functions, PI, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas
Subject: Environmental Science:Resource Use & Consequences:Oceans & Coastal Resources, Mineral Resources, Earth & Space Science, Environmental Science, Resource Use & Consequences, Earth & Space Science:Geology, Geology:Rocks & Minerals

Yellowstone! A National Park on a Hot Spot part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Judy McIlrath, University of South Florida Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students use foundational math to study the velocity of the North American Plate over the hot spot, the volume of eruptive materials from it, and the recurrence interval of the cataclysmic eruptions.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Unit conversions, Geometry; Trigonometry :Squares and rectangles, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Probability
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas
Subject: Earth & Space Science:Geology:Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Environmental Science:Ecosystem Monitoring, Earth & Space Science, Geology, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Environmental Science, Earth & Space Science:Geology:Plate Tectonics

Salmon Use of Geomorphically Restored Streams at Point Reyes National Seashore part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Module by: Mark Rains, University of South Florida Cover Page by: Len Vacher and Denise Davis, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students work with salmon-trace streambed data to study whether removal of a spawning run barrier was effective

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Comparisons; percent difference, change, increase, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data :Bar graphs; column graphs; stacked bar graphs
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic, Graphs and Charts:Bar Graph, Graphs and Charts, Statistical Functions:One array:AVERAGE, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas
Subject: Earth & Space Science:Ground & Surface Water, Earth & Space Science, Processes that Shape Earth's Surface, Environmental Science:Ecosystem Monitoring, Environmental Science, Resource Use & Consequences:Water Quality & Quantity

Mapping Coastal Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise at Point Reyes National Seashore part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students work with a color-coded conditional-formatted spreadsheet map to work through a USGS report applying a coastal vulnerability index.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Average; weighted average, Basic arithmetic; Number sense, Rates, Number operations:Number operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic, Other Manipulations and Functions:Data/Sort, Statistical Functions, One array:AVERAGE, Other Manipulations and Functions
Subject: Earth & Space Science:Atmospheric & Climate Science, Oceanography, Atmospheric & Climate Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science, Global Change & Climate, Earth & Space Science

Mined-Over Matter: Remembering Copper Mining at Keweenaw National Historic Park, Upper Peninsula Michigan part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners::Examples
Judy McIlrath, University of South Florida
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students calculate the amount of rock removed and the value of copper produced at the great Keweenaw District up to 1925.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Units and Dimensions, Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Unit conversions, Units and Dimensions:Unit Conversions, Basic arithmetic; Number sense
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic, Simple Formulas, Percent (format)
Subject: Environmental Science:Resource Use & Consequences, Earth & Space Science:Geology, Earth & Space Science, Geology:Rocks & Minerals, Environmental Science


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