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Coriolis Effect Activity
Laura Wetzel, Eckerd College
The Coriolis Effect is the deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame. In oceanography, we are most interested in how the Coriolis Effect moves winds and ocean currents on the ...

Learning Sustainability with Sim City
Sybil Hill
Sim City is a computer game that has the player design a city. They become the mayor. While designing the city from ground, they can choose sustainaiblity energy options such as wind farms, geothermal, and solar. The game includes greening options and pollution factors. Teachers in a variety of disciplines can utilize this to bring their core course concepts to life.

Investigating Natural Selection: Observing Stabilizing and Directional Selection through Graphical Analysis of Population Samples.
John Haug
This lab activity demonstrates the difference between stabilizing and directional natural selection using two separate populations of sunflower seeds.

Biking vs Driving
Deirdre Smeltzer, Eastern Mennonite University
How much difference would biking to work one day per week make?

Information Theory by own student' discoveries with MATLAB
Yevgeny Gayev, National aviation university
I present my recent textbook "Information Theory Processes by own student' discoveries with MATLAB and Java" (in Ukrainian) and my educational course associated with it.

Effectiveness of MN dams in water retention/ Efectividad de represas en Minnesota con respecto a la retencion de agua
Tania Ramos (unemployed), Home: 1018 Chestnut st. Taylors Falls, MN 55084
This activity is a field trip investigation where students gather stream flow, volume, depth & height (area) data on Ramsey County dams (Keller and Round lake), interpret their findings and make in-depth observations in order to assess the effectiveness of dams through the season and estimate the life-spam of the dams in years.