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What Does the Mean Mean? Describing Eruptions at Riverside Geyser, Yellowstone National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students study measures of central tendency in a bimodal dataset of eruption intervals.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience

Carbon Sequestration in Campus Trees part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use allometric relationships to calculate tree mass from trunk diameter in a stand of trees in the Pacific Northwest.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Biogeosciences , Geoscience, Biology, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Biogeochemical cycling

From Isotopes to Temperature: Working With A Temperature Equation part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build a spreadsheet to examine from a dataset the relation between oxygen isotopes in corals and the temperature of surrounding seawater.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry, Geoscience, Biology, Chemistry

What is the Discharge of the Congaree River at Congaree National Park? part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students use a rating curve to determine discharge at various stage heights.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience

Flood Days and Good Canoeing Days at Congaree National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
SSAC Geology of National Parks module/Geology of National Parks course. Students calculate probabilities using USGS hydrograph data, a spreadsheet of daily stage heights, and the COUNTIF function.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes

Nitrate Levels in the Rock Creek Park Watershed, Washington DC, 1: Measures of Central Tendency part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
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.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water:Water cycle/groundwater-surface water interface, Water supply/water resource evaluation, Water quality/chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Ground Water, Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Hydrology, Geoscience

Something is Askew at Mammoth Cave National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum/Geology of National Parks module. Students use the geometric mean and multiplicative standard deviation to examine the right-skewed distribution of nutrient concentrations in water-quality data at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Geology, Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry , Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Hydrology, Biogeosciences , Geoscience, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Biology:Ecology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Point Source Pollution, Non-Point Source Pollution, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Sustainability, Ecosystems:Restoration/Reclamation, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Environmental Science, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Data Management and Organization:Outliers, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Data Management and Organization, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:One Categorical Variable:Graphical Displays, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:One Categorical Variable, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation, Statistical Inference and Techniques, Mathematics:Statistics, Mathematics

Lithospheric Density part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Teaching with SSAC:Examples
Students learn about the weighted mean by building spreadsheets that apply this concept to the average density of the oceanic lithosphere.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Tectonophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Tectonics, Geoscience:Geology, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Physics:Classical Mechanics:Gravity, Physics:Classical Mechanics, Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Geoscience

Lithospheric Density part of Starting Point-Teaching Entry Level Geoscience:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Examples
Students learn about the weighted mean by building spreadsheets that apply this concept to the average density of the oceanic lithosphere.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Tectonophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Tectonics, Geoscience:Geology, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Physics:Classical Mechanics:Gravity, Physics:Classical Mechanics, Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Geoscience

Lithospheric Density part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Students learn about the weighted mean by building spreadsheets that apply this concept to the average density of the oceanic lithosphere.

Subject: Geoscience: Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Tectonophysics, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics, Tectonics, Geoscience:Geology, Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards, Physics:Classical Mechanics:Gravity, Physics:Classical Mechanics, Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Geoscience