Part 2 of offshore hydromechanics (OE4630) involves the linear theory of calculating 1st order motions of floating structures in waves and all relevant subjects such as the concept of RAOs, response spectra and downtime/workability analysis.

Physical and chemical (biostratinomic) processes that operate on an entity prior to its burial and incorporation into the fossil record ultimately influence how it is interpreted by a researcher when collected and evaluated. Beginning geoscience and paleontology students often assume that a character gradient exists in a fossil assemblage that reflects a temporal trend. That is, fossils recovered from the same assemblage exhibiting well-preserved features are "younger" than those in which poorly-defined features occur. The assumption is that poorly preserved fossils have been in the "taphonomic mill" longer than those showing well-defined characters. Of course, the taphonomic (biostratinomic) history of any fossil is, well, individual, with an array of biochemical, geochemical, and physical factors operating on each over different spatial and temporal scales. This exercise is designed to demonstrate, with pocket change, that the external features of an entity result from a combination of factors influencing. This beginning taphonomic exercise is an attempt to have students think about the array of variuos processes that can play a role in how an object appears in an assemblage.

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This math problem determines the areas of simple and complex planar figures using measurement of mass and proportional constructs. Materials are inexpensive or easily found (poster board, scissors, ruler, sharp pencil, right angle), but also requires use of an analytical balance (suggestions are provided for working with less precise weighing tools). This resource is from PUMAS - Practical Uses of Math and Science - a collection of brief examples created by scientists and engineers showing how math and science topics taught in K-12 classes have real world applications.

This video provides an overview of the research of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on converting biomass to liquid fuels.

In this activity, students work through the process of evaluating the feasibility of photovoltaic solar power in 4 different US cities.

In this activity, students use Google Earth to investigate ideal features of wind farms.

This video segment adapted from NOVA uses microwave images to reveal how sea ice doubles the size of Antarctica each winter. Rare footage shows how sea ice crushed the famous ship Endurance in 1914.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Linked-read sequencing is helping microbiome researchers remove some of the ambiguities produced by short-read metagenomic sequencing, but how the parameters of linked-read sequencing affect metagenome assembly quality has remained unclear. Using simulated data, a mock community and real metagenomic data, a new study recommends best practices for linked-read sequencing of microbial genomes. Results showed that assemblies of medium-abundance microbes could be substantially improved by choosing a deep read depth. Indeed, selecting a read depth between 120X and 140X is recommended to optimize assembly quality. A tradeoff was observed between read depth per fragment and DNA fragment physical depth, with a deep read depth per fragment generating more high-quality bins. and DNA fragment physical depth controlling total assembly length..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

In this activity students develop a practical understanding of the causes and symptoms of drought. They read background articles and prepare a physical model to illustrate the role that soil moisture plays in preventing or promoting drought. Students use Google Earth to examine precipitation and streamflow data and use them to predict locations that are experiencing drought. They check their predictions by comparing them to a drought monitor map. In the final section, students examine and interpret the current map of the Palmer Drought Severity Index.

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This book includes the Learning Outcome: explain and recognize stages and milestones in physical, social, emotional, sensory, linguistic, and cognitive development for infants from birth to 15 months old. The objective meets the NAEYC Standard 1a [Knowing and understanding young children’s characteristics and needs, from birth through age 8] for educator preparation and the MA Core Competency 1.A.1 and 1.G.15 at the initial level. You will experience how an infant develops at an individual rate and has a personal approach to learning.

Prior to this lab, students will have read and learned about valley glacier processes, glacier mass balance, warm-based and cold-based glaciers, and can identify various glacier landforms formed by erosion. They will also have had an introductory lecture on ice physics, but that is not necessary to complete this activity.

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Students learn about sound propagation in the ocean through instructor-guided problem solving. The activity promotes a conceptual understanding of the physical and chemical factors that influence ocean acoustics, with applications to how whales communicate over long distances. The activity serves as a way to introduce the topic of ocean sound.

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In this lab we take a brief field trip to Adena Brook, a first order tributary of the Olentangy River in central Ohio. We observe the stream, its setting, its bedrock, determine some stream velocity profiles, and measure some basic chemical and physical properties of the stream water.

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In this video segment adapted from NOVA, follow novice runners as they train for a marathon, and discover how quickly the body responds to regular aerobic exercise.

This article discusses the importance of teaching students to reflect on text through direct instruction and modeling. The article includes a template that can be used with elementary students.

Play with one or two pendulums and discover how the period of a simple pendulum depends on the length of the string, the mass of the pendulum bob, and the amplitude of the swing. It's easy to measure the period using the photogate timer. You can vary friction and the strength of gravity. Use the pendulum to find the value of g on planet X. Notice the anharmonic behavior at large amplitude.

Explore the forces at work when you try to push a filing cabinet. Create an applied force and see the resulting friction force and total force acting on the cabinet. Charts show the forces, position, velocity, and acceleration vs. time. View a Free Body Diagram of all the forces (including gravitational and normal forces).

This segment from Swift: Eyes through Time traces the history military officers and engineers discovering a strange phenomenon in the sky that astronomers now know are gamma-ray bursts.

These are notes prepared for a 7-day course at the QED Verein in Germany. The plan is to explain Feynman diagrams from their origin in quantum field theory to their application in homotopy theory. The course is targeted at a group of bachelor and master students from mixed backgrounds in mathematics, physics or related areas. The course starts with a recap of differential geometry, follows with elementary explanation of perturbative quantum field theory and finishes with the mathematical meaning in differential operators, the IBL-operad and knot theory. The course includes multiple exercises scattered throughout the text. 

Students practice making observations, describing physical characteristics of organisms, and interpreting information. In pairs, students sit back to back; one student describes a creature and the other draws based on the partner’s description.

Educators Guide for this unit:
http://education.eol.org/lesson_plans/2-5_ScienceSkills_BioblitzSkillbuilderOverview.pdf

Lessons in this unit:
Biodiversity Skillbuilder 1: Meet a Creature
Biodiversity Skillbuilder 2: ID That Bird!
Biodiversity Skillbuilder 3: How Diverse is Biodiversity?
Biodiversity Skillbuilder 4: Modeling Classification
Biodiversity Skillbuilder 5: ID Using a Dichotomous Key