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Serc: Simple Population Space Usage
Using data on population, land area, and house size, learners will investigate how much space is used by people in Texas compared to the population of the world, and how much space would be required to give everyone in the world the...
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Serc: Energy Cost of Engine Idling
An open-ended modeling exercise for students about sustainability and energy behaviors and impacts.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Economics of Installing Solar Pv Panels: Is It Worth It to the Individual?
Help determine the financial calculations involved in an actual solar photovoltaic system installed Denver, Colorado in 2013.
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Serc: How Biodiverse Is Lake Superior? An Exercise in Proportions
An exercise in critical thinking, as well as practice in percents, proportions, and probabilities. Learners research to gather information, then use their math skills to perform calculations on the data.
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Serc: Estimating Our Carbon Footprint
This is a three-part algebra activity focusing on food-related carbon dioxide emissions.
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Serc: Using "Good Guide" to Create Better Consumers
This learning activity helps educators and students use a valuable web resource that ranks products based on three sustainability criteria: personal health, environmental impact, and social equity.
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Serc: The Urgent Need for Understanding and Implementing Sustainability
Using statistics from a web-based sustainability resource, young scholars investigate the need for improving their own sustainability practices.
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Serc: Using Art to Teach Environmental Responsibility
Students use art to consider the effects of industrial culture on the environment, and envision how to create a more positive and sustainable future.
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Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City
Helps educators develop SimCity-based lesson plans that will encourage students to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. SimCity is a city-building simulation computer game where players become the mayor and design...
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Serc: Finding the Personal Voice of Sustainability
Students explore a more personal connection to sustainability and environmental concerns by reading an article, and rewriting it into a first-person monologue which they will perform.
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Serc: Chem Prime: Creating a Connection Between Everyday Life and Stoichiometry
Students learn about stoichiometry, and make the connection between stoichiometry and when they use the same mathematical process during their every day life.
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Serc: Virtual Photoelectric Lab
In this activity, students measure the relationship between kinetic energy of photoelectrons and the frequency of the incident light.
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Serc: Properties of Electrostatic Charge: Interactive Lecture Demonstration
Students will investigate the properties of charge, charge by contact, the polarization of charge, and charge by induction. Through the use of demonstrations, students should have a thorough understanding of the movements of electrons...
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Serc: Introduction to Torques: A Question of Balance
Learners will be introduced to torques and their importance in static balance.
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Serc: Experiment Problem in Kinematics: How Much Does It Take to Win the Race?
Students are presented with two cars that have different constant speeds and that will race each other. They then determine which object will win the race, as well as how much time elapses between the objects crossing the finish line.
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Serc: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions: The Case of the Happy and Sad Balls
Students improve their understanding of momentum conservation and learn that a recoiling object in an elastic collision will transfer more impulse than if it collided inelastically.