Computing Dosage for Infants and Children -- Calculation of Dosage by the Body Weight Method part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to find dosages in mL/admin from prescription in mg/day/kg and admins/day; body weight in lbs; and concentration in mg/mL.

The Mole in Chemistry: How do you determine the number of atoms or molecules in everyday items? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum Module. Students build spreadsheets to practice converting between moles, grams, and atomic mass units.

Bacteria in a Flask -- Spreadsheeting Population Density vs. Time part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students tabulate and graph data on bacteria density vs. time for a culture. Data start with innoculation and progress through the peak and decline.

Teaching with Data Simulations part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Data Simulations
Compiled by Danielle Dupuis and Joan Garfield at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities × Researchers and educators have found that statistical ideas are often misunderstood by students and professionals. In ...

Teaching with Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC
Len Vacher, University of South Florida, Tampa Ask students a quantitative question in non-mathematics context -- a question that requires consideration of numbers, tables or graphs, and/or a calculation or ...

Simple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to tabulate, graph and compare the future value of investments with compound vs. simple interest. Spreadsheet level: beginner.

Predator-Prey Interactions -- Modeling the Number of Fishers and Porcupines in New Hampshire part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum activity/Introductory Ecology course. Students build and manipulate spreadsheets to model and graph populations using the Lotka-Volterra predator-prey equations.

Earthquake Magnitude: How Can We Compare the Sizes of Earthquakes? part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to tabulate and graph seismic wave amplitude and energy release to explore the logarithmic scale of earthquake magnitude.

Human Demographics part of Teaching Methods:Mathematical and Statistical Models:Examples
In this biology simulation students explore factors that change human population growth including age at which women begin to bear children, fertility rate and death rate.

Writing a Wikipedia Genetic Disease Article part of Teaching Methods:Teaching with Data:Examples
Writing a Wikipedia article about a genetic disease is a good culminating activity for a genetics course or module, as it requires synthesizing and interpreting a wide range of genetic information. This assignment also includes a potential service component, which is normally very difficult in genetics.