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Energy Flow through Agroecosystems (Farms) part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets across the Curriculum module. Students build spreadsheets that allow them to calculate the different values needed to examine energy flow through agroecosystems.

Quantitative Concepts: Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Units and Dimensions:Unit Conversions, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Significant figures, Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Rates, Logarithms; orders of magnitude; scientific notation, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data :Pie charts
Subject: Engineering, agriculture:Agriculture and agricultural engineering, Natural science:Biology
Excel Skills: Graphs and Charts:Pie Chart, Basic Arithmetic:Arithmetic Functions:SUM, Basic Arithmetic:Simple Formulas

The Manning Equation part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum Module. Students build spreadsheets to estimate discharge for a culvert using the Manning equation, and to estimate culvert size, given a specified discharge.

Quantitative Concepts: Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Visual display of data :XY scatter plots, Measurement; Data presentation and analysis; Probability:Descriptive statistics; trend lines :Line- and curve-fitting, Creating and manipulating tabular data, Geometry; Trigonometry :Circles (including radians and pi), Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Units and Dimensions:Dimensions, Basic arithmetic; Number sense:Rates, Ratio and proportion; percentage; interpolation, Calculus; Numerical methods:Iteration, Algebra; Modeling; Functions:Manipulating equations, Modeling:Inverse problem, Forward modeling, Algebra; Modeling; Functions:Nonlinear functions of a single variable:Power function
Subject: Natural science:Physics, Engineering, agriculture:Civil, environmental, hydraulic engineering
Excel Skills: Basic Arithmetic:Nested Formulas, Graphs and Charts:XY Scatterplot:One Plot, Trendlines