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Unit 5: Analyzing Complexity part of Systems Thinking
This unit has students build on a system diagram, to include new knowledge about quantitative values and relationships. They will also write about and discuss what they know about their systems, the questions that ...

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science, Geoscience
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Assessment:Concept Map, Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology:Teaching with Visuals, Pedagogic Methods:Other:Gallery Walk, Group Work, Quantitative Reasoning:Quantitative Literacy, Pedagogic Methods:Other:Cooperative Learning, Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Quantitative Reasoning
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Module 6 Capstone – Reversing the Process part of Oceans in the News:Oceans in the News – Polar Ocean Science, Data, and the Media
This final module is a capstone project where students have to use what they have learned up until now to create their own news article based on a data set they find. The idea behind this project is that students ...

Subject: Geoscience:Oceanography, Environmental Science
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology:Teaching with Data, Quantitative Reasoning, Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills:Writing
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Unit 2: Communicating Climate 1: The Science of Climate Change part of Cli-Fi: Climate Science in Literary Texts
Using climate data, students develop a graph and present the results in a blog, emphasizing effective scientific communication. Students work individually or in teams to graph, describe, and explain the data sets ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Teaching with Data, Models, Visuals, & Technology:Teaching with Data, Quantitative Reasoning, Pedagogic Methods:Projects, Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Assessment:Peer Assessment
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The Anatomy of a Rate Law part of Pedagogy in Action:Library:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This assignment teaches geochemistry students to explain the mathematical forms of rate laws, and organize paragraphs in their writing assignments properly.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry:Reaction Kinetics/Rates, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Quantitative Reasoning

Investigating the Rock Cycle Through Writing and Illustrating part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a quantative writing activity where students will use writing and illustrations to show their knowledge of the basic rock cycle.

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Sedimentary Geology:Weathering
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills

What is Magnitude? Earthquake Magnitude By Analogy part of Geophysics:Workshop 07:Geophysics Activities
Understanding magnitude scales by analogy to distance. Students use distance as a proxy for understanding how the logarithmic earthquake magnitude scale works. Very simple class or lab exercise for introductory ...

Subject: Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Seismology
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Quantitative Reasoning, Quantitative Literacy, Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing
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Explaining Seismic Hazard Probabilities part of Teaching Resources:Quantitative Writing:Examples
This activity asks students to explain earthquake hazard probabilities to a lay audience of citizens, government officials and others.

Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Earthquakes
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills, Quantitative Reasoning

The Science of Puddles part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation of puddles where students gather data and record their findings.

Subject: Chemistry, General Acids & Bases, Geoscience, Atmospheric Science:Climatology :Hydrologic cycle
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills

Exploring Effects of Oil Spills on Birds part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity allows children to explore the effects of oil spills on birds.

Subject: Environmental Science, Geoscience, Chemistry
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills, Writing:Quantitative Writing

Investigating Clouds: How do clouds form? What are the different types of clouds? part of MnSTEP Teaching Activity Collection:MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This plan involves observing and labeling clouds and conducting an experiment on how clouds form.

Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology
New Pedagogic Methods: Writing: Communication Skills:Writing:Quantitative Writing, Communication Skills:Writing, Communication Skills