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National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Nuclear Popcorn

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Make your lesson on radioactive decay pop with this lab exercise. Using popcorn kernels spread over a tabletop, participants pick up all of those that point toward the back of the room, that is, those that represent decayed atoms. As the...
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Curated OER

Human Population- Changes in Survival Rates Data Interpretation

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
In this human population changes in survival worksheet, students interpret and plot data to understand the differences in human mortality and survivorship between historic and modern times. They investigate how these changes influence...
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

The Effects of Colloidal Silver on Microbial Growth: Investigating Snake Oil Science

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Can your classes solve the problem of the smelly sweat sock? Young scientists complete a lab investigation that begins by using electrochemistry to generate colloidal silver. They use their solutions to test the rate of microbial growth...
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Baylor College

Needs of Plants

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
What better way to learn about plant life than by creating a class garden? Young botanists start with a brief discussion about radishes before planting seeds and watching them grow. To determine the importance of water,...
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Curated OER

What's Wetland Allelopathy?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students study plants and what they need to thrive and survive. They make plant extracts from chosen wetland plants and test their allelopathic effects on the germination rate, radicle growth, and hypocotyl growth of test seeds of other...
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Curated OER

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 11th
In this Algebra II worksheet, 11th graders solve verbal problems that involve exponential growth or decay.  The two page worksheet contains a combination of seven multiple choice and free response questions.  Answers are...
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Curated OER

Capturing Bacteria Growth

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students grow bacteria. In this bacteria growth lesson, students allow bacteris to incubate for 2-3 days. The teacher uses a document camera to show how to remove the bacteria from the plate. Students remove a small sample of bacteria...
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Curated OER

I Wonder How Fast Manduca Grows Compared To Me

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Learners study the Manduca bug and its growth data. They look for patterns and compare their own growth rate to that of the Manduca.
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Council for Economic Education

Unemployment Data: Is the Economy Healthy?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The United States will never see a time when the unemployment rate hits 0%. Why? Scholars research economic data to uncover clues hidden in the unemployment rate at any given time. A short video as well as research activities help...
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West Contra Costa Unified School District

Interest and the Number e

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Mary, Mary, quite continuously, how does your money grow? Uses examples to examine the difference between simple interest and compound interest, and to take a look at different rates of compounding. Learners explore what would...
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It's About Time

Factors Affecting Population Size

For Teachers 7th - 12th
How do we predict future population growth? Young researchers investigate various factors affecting the size of our population. As they calculate and interpret graphs to determine factors that could potentially affect increases...
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PBL Pathways

What Should Have Happened on Gilligan's Island?

For Students 10th - Higher Ed Standards
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale ..." Gilligan's Island is a classic that spans generations and offers a problem-solving opportunity for scholars. Take a project-based learning approach to examine the population of the island....
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Curated OER

Geometric Sequences - Bacterial Growth

For Students 8th - 10th Standards
Bring algebra to life with scientific applications. Math minded individuals calculate and graph the time it takes a bacterium to double. They discuss geometric sequences and use a chart to graph their findings. There are 38...
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Curated OER

Exponential Growth versus Polynomial Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your algebra learners explore the values of two types of functions in order to compare growth rates in this short cooperative task. Two types of solutions are given, using a table of values and an abstract argument.
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Curated OER

Population Growth

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars calculate human emission rate by year 2050. In this social studies lesson, students watch a video online and analyze population trends. They explain how e total emissions affect global climate.
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Curated OER

Integrated Algebra Practice: Exponential Growth

For Students 9th - 12th
In this exponential growth worksheet, learners solve 4 short answer and multiple choice problems. Students determine the population of a city after a given amount of time.
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Curated OER

The Process Of Stable Growth And Development

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars investigate the economic growth of established and third world countries. They conduct research with compiling statistics taken from the OECD, The World Bank, and the IMF. The lesson includes notes to help the teacher...
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Curated OER

Lab Sheet: Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 8th - 9th
In this exponential worksheet, students gather information from an experiment and plot the data in a scatter plot. Using given formulas, they plot an equation of a line and then compare the graphs. Students observe exponential growth...
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Curated OER

Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 11th
In this algebra instructional activity, students solve word problems. They identify the graph as exponential growth or decay. There are 7 questions with an answer key.
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Curated OER

Whoa! Slow Down-Some of You!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze demographic data (growth rate, natural increase, fertility rate, crude birth rates, and crude death rates) and determine which areas of the world contain the fastest and slowest growth rates. They construct population...
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Curated OER

AP: Chapter 52: Population Ecology

For Students 9th - 12th
For AP biology or ecology classes, here is a worksheet that explores population growth. Carrying capacity, limiting factors, and k-strategies are dealt with using short-answer questions. 
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Curated OER

Population and Food Supply

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
What does it mean for something to grow exponentially, and how does that compare to linear growth? This activity tries to help learners gain an understanding of these concepts while modeling real-world problems. Linear and exponential...
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Curated OER

Nutrient Cycling

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
AP environmental science or college-level ecology classes will glean a tremendous amount of information on nutrient cycles from this detailed PowerPoint. It covers nutrient requirements, biogeochemcial cycles, decomposition rates, and...
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EngageNY

Linear and Exponential Models—Comparing Growth Rates

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Does a linear or exponential model fit the data better? Guide your class through an exploration to answer this question. Pupils create an exponential and linear model for a data set and draw conclusions, based on predictions and the...

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