This is a two-fold first-year college writing Research Writing assignment. In the first part, students do research into their own family/community history. In the second part, they select a particular person, moment, place, or time that they learned about during their genealogical research, and this will become the subject of their research project in the areas of sociology, geography, environmental studies, psychology, or medicine. Students choose what question they would like to explore further and the question itself stems from their family history findings.  

Detailed information is provided in activity description/assignment and an example lab handout that assisted students in conducting their research.

Initial guidelines given to students:

Choose a location (where you are from, a place that is of interest to you) and investigate how projected changes in climate will affect that area. What are the expected changes in temperature, precipitation, storms, droughts, sea level, seasonality, etc? How will this affect the habitat of the area (for humans, animals, and plants)? How will this affect the local economy? What actions can the people that live in this area take to lessen the impacts of changing climate? Students write a scientific style paper on their findings, and present their research to the class in ~10 minute oral presentations (alternatively a poster session could be used).

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A short collection of resources designed to help teachers and students navigate rhetorical devices and argument.

This kit covers a historical overview of American representations of natural resources from ancient Indian basketry to contemporary web sites. It compares conflicting media constructions about the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the damning of rivers, and Chukchi sea oil drilling. By showing the slow realization that natural resources are finite, students will learn valuable lessons in earth, natural and environmental sciences.

There is a description of the lesson that includes learning outcomes. This activity includes instructor guides, learning outcomes, student handouts, graphic organizers, and answer keys. There are two worksheets, one targeted to math students and the other targeted to biology/science students. Each worksheet is complemented with corresponding answer keys for faculty. There is background information, links to additional/supplemental information, teaching tips and a breakdown of the vocabulary differences between the math and biology classroom provided in the answer key handouts. Also, a link is provided to an original paper (Journal of Bacteriology, 1935) where bacterial growth rates were determined experimentally.

Size, Scales, and Specialization was developed as part of an effort by the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges group to provide materials that incorporate mathematical concepts into biology courses. The activity uses published estimates of cell type numbers in the human body along with size, density and weight as a lens to have students calculate ratios, explore exponents, and better understand how the various cell types contribute to an average human's total weight and size. The activity is applicable for majors and non-majors biology courses, and maps to Chapter 4 of the OpenStax Biology 2e textbook. This activity could also be used in a mathematics course as a biologically relevant example.

The activity contains a pre-assessment to gauge student understanding of the material and provides an opportunity for students to predict the number of various cell types, as well as the mass of various cell types, in the human body. This prediction activity is followed with a guided approach to calculating these values. After guiding the students in this activity, students will then have a chance to practice the activity on a new set of cell data provided.

After completing this module students should be able to:

- Compare and contrast the structure and function of different cell types.
-- List the largest and the smallest cells in the body based on number.
-- List the largest and the smallest cells in the body based on mass.
- Describe the advantages of specialization in eukaryotic cells.
-- Give examples of how specialization in cell types affects cell size (volume) and shape.
- Perform measurements and conversions using the metric system.
-- Measure the scale of cell size variation in the human body
-- Calculate the relative proportions of cell types in the human body by mass and frequency

In this activity students will use linear regression to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases such as Malaria, Zika, and LaCrosse Virus. Students will explore how environmental factors such as climate change or population density influence the transmission of these diseases. The activities are designed for face-to-face instruction and may be adapted for an online classroom. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1919613. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

In this activity, students will perform an experiment utilizing dialysis tubing to create cellular models to demonstrate the linear relationship between cell weight and time in varying tonicities. Videos and data sets (of faculty results) are provided for maximum flexibility in delivery methods.

Why are Cells Small? was developed as part of an effort by the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges group to provide materials that incorporate mathematical concepts into biology courses. The activity was designed for a non-majors biology course, and maps to Chapter 4 of the OpenStax Biology 2e textbook. This activity could also be used in a mathematics course as a biologically relevant example.

After completing this module students should be able to:

- Explain the relationship of surface area to volume
- Describe the importance of a large surface area to volume ratio in the context of a living cell
- Calculate surface area of cubes and spheres
- Calculate volume of cubes and spheres
- Express two values as a ratio
- Enter data into a table
- Interpret Tables
- Create a graph
- Describe the axis labels on graphs
- Interpret graphs
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1919613. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

The California History and Social Science Project hosted a webinar on March 2nd and shared a list of resources for teaching and understanding the war in Ukraine. 

Who is responsible for what in the medical clinic?
Download the .ZIP file to edit in Articulate Storyline 360, here:
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If you do not have Storyline to make it interactive, just pause the .MP4 video as necessary to progress through the lesson.

The Response Paper assignment asks students to synthesize themes and concepts, offer critique, and pose questions related to the representation of Black immigrants in American culture. The resource also offers a grading rubric. 

Students are asked to submit a written response after:
1. Discussing a controversial issue in class.
2. Reading and discussing an article about the issue.
3. Watching and discussing a video about the issue.

A two-day seminar will be hosted by the instructor. The first day will be an introductory lecture describing the background of soil science and the second day will be a hands-on activity where students will analyze the texture and chemistry of soil samples from home and compare that data to the texture and chemistry of a degraded soil sample from an agricultural area. The guiding questions for this activity are “Why does soil health matter?” and “How does the health of a soil impact its diversity, soil texture, and chemical makeup?”.

This course will help you effectively develop employment application materials for todayĺÎĺs job market by honing your resume writing skills, providing you with tools to create an impressive resume (or to improve the one you already have), and giving suggestions on developing an effective cover letter

The lesson is a quick review of graphing linear equations in slope intercept form.