SSAC General Collection Modules
Following are short descriptions of the available modules. To access any of them, select from the list and you will connect to cover material including learning goals, context of use, and other information. Within the cover material (under "Teaching Materials") there is a link by which you can download the student version of the module.
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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: Natural science:Biology, Chemistry, Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Statistical Functions:One array:AVERAGE, STDEV, STDEVP, etc, MAX, MIN, etc, Logic Functions:COUNTIF, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:Trendlines, Graphs and Charts:Bar Graph, Line Graph
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Exercise to Calculate River Discharge part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students use field data from rivers to understand how river discharge is calculated.
Subject: Natural science:Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic
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: Natural science:Biology, Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Nested Formulas, Other Elementary Math Functions:EXP, LN, Graphs and Charts:Pie Chart
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Global Climate: Estimating How Much Sea Level Changes When Continental Ice Sheets Form part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to estimate how far sea level drops during a continental glaciation.
Subject: Natural science:Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Angles and Trig Functions:PI
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First Accounting Cycle, 1 -- Classifying Accounting Data Using Excel part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum module. Students build a spreadsheet to post financial transactions and use a table-lookup function to classify them.
Subject: Business, economics and finance : Business
Excel Skills: Other Manipulations and Functions:Lookup Functions
Shaking Ground - Linking Earthquake Magnitude and Intensity part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
An in-class activity for connecting earthquake magnitude, shaking, and intensity.
Subject: Natural science:Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:Multiple Plots
Is It Hot in Here? -- Spreadsheeting Conversions in the English and Metric Systems part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module/Introductory chemistry course. Students build spreadsheets to examine unit conversions between the metric and English systems. Spreadsheet level: Beginner.
Subject: Natural science:Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Statistical Functions:Two arrays:TREND, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:One Plot, Trendlines
Simple vs. Compound Interest -- Spreadsheeting the Difference part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection: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.
Subject: Mathematics, statistics and computers:Mathematics, Business, economics and finance :Finance
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:Multiple Plots, Trendlines
Earth's Planetary Density: Constraining What We Think about the Earth's Interior part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets to forward calculate the Earth's aggregate density from combinations of densities and thicknesses of the Earth's four shells.
Subject: Natural science:Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Arithmetic Functions:SUM, SUMPRODUCT, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Angles and Trig Functions:PI, Graphs and Charts:Pie Chart
Earthquake Magnitude: How Can We Compare the Sizes of Earthquakes? part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection: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.
Subject: Natural science:Earth science
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas, Nested Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:One Plot, Multiple Plots, Log Scale