Rounding Numbers part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Understanding Uncertainty
Scientists have a convention for rounding numbers to the appropriate number of significant figures. In the age of calculators that mindlessly present many digits more than are significant, knowing how to round ...

part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods
This set of modules relate to particular pedagogical techniques or issues that can be used in teaching quantitative skills to students. Some of these modules were developed by workshop participants as a way of ...

Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences part of Quantitative Skills:Issues and Discussion
Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences Cathryn A. Manduca, Carleton College, 2002 This essay argues that geoscience faculty should care about integrating quantitative skills into their teaching and synthesizes many ...

Activities part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Resources
Materials for Lab and Class Skip to search results Skip to search facet filtersSkip to text search formSkip to paginationRefine the Results↓ Subject: Geoscience55 matches General/OtherAtmospheric Science ...

DataSheets part of Quantitative Skills:Tools and Datasets
Originally developed for the NSDL Using Data in the Classroom portal, DataSheets concisely describe particular scientific data sets in a way that is useful to educators interested in teaching with the data. ...

Data Sources and Tools part of Quantitative Skills:Tools and Datasets
This is the Geoscience subset of our Data Resources collection. To browse through the entire collection of data sources and tools, just go to the Using Data in the Classroom page. Skip to search results Skip to ...

The Earth's Shells - Thicknesses and Densities part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
This module explores the combination of densities and shell thicknesses that produce an aggregate density of the Earth of 5.5 g/cm3.

Scaling Galileo's Solar System - Times part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
In this module, students are asked to look at how long it takes for planets and moons to complete their orbits, and how fast they are going.

Stokes' Law Exercise for "Rocks and Minerals" part of Quantitative Skills:Activity Collection
Students in a lab qualitatively "derive" Stokes' Law by timing the settling of various objects through given fluids.

Why Do Geologists Use Graphs? part of Quantitative Skills:Teaching Methods:Teaching Quantitative Literacy
Quantitative concepts: Basic graphing skills, exponential growth and decay by Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Jump down to: Functions | Use of Graphs | Good Ideas | Examples ...