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What is the Volume of a Debris Flow? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build a spreadsheet to estimate the volume of volcanic deposits using map, thickness and high-water mark data from the 2005 Panabaj debris flow (Guatemala).
What is the Volume of the 1992 Eruption of Cerro Negro Volcano, Nicaragua? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build a spreadsheet to calculate the volume a tephra deposit using an exponential-thinning model.
Archimedes and Pi part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum Activity. Student build spreadsheets that allow them to estimate pi using the same iterative process as Archimedes.
How Large is the Great Pyramid of Giza? -- Would it make a wall that would enclose France? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students calculate the volume of the Great Pyramid and, following Napoleon, estimate whether its volume is large enough to make a wall around France.
Getting Your Fair Share -- Jelly beans, student groups, and Alexander Hamilton part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheet Across the Curriculum module. Students develop an Excel spreadsheet to work with the quota method of apportionment designed by Alexander Hamilton.