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    From Isotopes to Temperature: Working With A Temperature Equation part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
    Dorien McGee
    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.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Introductory
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience, Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience:Geology:Geochemistry
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary
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    Something is Askew at Mammoth Cave National Park part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Geology of National Parks:Examples
    Module by: Amie O. West, University of South Florida Cover Page by: Amie O. West, University of South Florida
    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.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity:Point Source Pollution, Non-Point Source Pollution, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Sustainability, Water Quality and Quantity:Surface Water , Biology:Ecology, Geoscience:Biogeosciences , Geoscience, Biology:Ecology:Habitats:Freshwater, Biology:Ecology:Habitats, Environmental Science:Ecosystems:Restoration/Reclamation, Environmental Science:Ecosystems, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation:One Categorical Variable, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Presentation, Statistical Inference and Techniques, Mathematics:Statistics, Statistics:Data Presentation:One Categorical Variable:Graphical Displays, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Data Management and Organization, Environmental Science, Chemistry:Environmental Chemistry, Mathematics:Statistics:Data Collection:Data Management and Organization:Outliers, Geoscience:Hydrology, Mathematics, Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geomorphology:Landforms/Processes:Karst, Geoscience:Geology, Hydrology:Surface Water:Water Quality/Chemistry
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    How Do We Estimate Melt Density? part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Physical Volcanology:Examples
    chuck connor, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg
    SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build spreadsheets to estimate melt density at high temperatures and pressures from the thermodynamic properties of silicates.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Chemistry:General Chemistry:Mixtures, Solutions, & Compounds:Molarity, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Physics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    How are Flow Conditions in Volcanic Conduits Estimated? part of Pedagogy in Action:Partners:Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:Physical Volcanology:Examples
    chuck connor, University of South Florida-St. Petersburg
    SSAC Physical Volcanology module. Students build a spreadsheet to calculate velocity of rising magma in steady-state Plinian eruptions using conservation of mass and momentum.

    Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology:Volcanology, Geoscience:Geology:Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Chemistry:General Chemistry:Properties of Matter, Physics:Classical Mechanics, General Properties of Matter
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

    Is It Hot in Here? -- Spreadsheeting Conversions in the English and Metric Systems part of Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum:General Collection:Examples
    cheryl coolidge, Colby-Sawyer College
    Spreadsheets Across Curriculum module/Introductory chemistry course. Students build spreadsheets to examine unit conversions between the metric and English systems. Spreadsheet level: Beginner.

    Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
    Resource Type: Activities: Activities
    Subject: Biology, Chemistry, Geoscience, Physics
    Activity Review: Passed Peer Review