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Cloud and Server GIS
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Is your understanding of Cloud GIS a bit hazy? Does thinking about it leave you in a fog? We've designed GEOG 865, Cloud and Server GIS, to help you understand how all of the various pieces of architecture fit together. By the end of the class you'll have a clear understanding of esri's and others' offerings in the space, how to implement ArcGIS Enterprise on Amazon EC2, make online maps with Carto and Mapbox, and engage in some blue sky thinking of your own in our weekly discussions about trends and directions.

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Applied Science
Computer Science
Physical Geography
Physical Science
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Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Author:
Sterling Quinn
Date Added:
10/07/2019
Coastal Processes, Hazards and Society
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Has your attention recently been caught by news of coastal catastrophes such as hurricanes and tsunamis? Do you wonder why so many coastal communities in the world are vulnerable to flooding and other coastal hazards? Have you considered what coastal flood protections cities like Houston and Miami will need in the future to protect their residents? This course will provide a better understanding of these phenomena. We present a global perspective of coastal landscapes, the geologic processes responsible for their formation, and ways that society responds to hazards like sea level rise and catastrophic weather events. You will participate in active learning exercises such as analyzing real-world datasets and applying critical thinking to real-world societal problems while investigating a coastal community.

Subject:
Applied Science
Biology
Career and Technical Education
Ecology
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Life Science
Oceanography
Physical Geography
Physical Science
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Full Course
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Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Author:
Brent Yarnal
Dinah Maygarden
Tim Bralower
Date Added:
10/07/2019
College Algebra: An Inverse Approach
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This College Algebra textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamental concepts of algebra, with a unique focus on the concept of inverses. The textbook begins with an exploration of the foundational principles of functions, including domain, range, and the vertical line test. It progresses through critical topics such as operations on functions, composition of functions, and the algebra of functions, ensuring students grasp the fundamental building blocks necessary for more complex algebraic thinking.Several times the teaching diverges from how the subject is commonly taught. Examples include absolute value, determining the inverse of a function, and completing the square. The text is as devoid of "gimmicks" or "tricks" as possible, leaning on the fundamentals of good algebra. Also, there is a high reliance on fractions, rather than decimal numbers, to help equip the student with the better way to read a problem and its solution.This book is written for and dedicated to my grandchildren, and the fact that you're taking at least a glimpse of it is just a huge bonus! Thank you.

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Education
Mathematics
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Textbook
Author:
Dan Cook
Date Added:
08/23/2024
College Physics for AP Courses
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College Physics for AP Courses is designed to engage students in their exploration of physics and help them to relate what they learn in the classroom to their lives and to apply these concepts to the Advanced Placement test. Physics underlies much of what is happening today in other sciences and in technology, therefore the book includes interesting facts and ideas that go beyond the scope of the AP course to further student understanding. The AP Connection in each chapter directs students to the material they should focus on for the AP® exam, and what content — although interesting — is not necessarily part of the AP curriculum.

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Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Textbook
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Rice University
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OpenStax College
Author:
David Anderson
Douglas Ingram
Gregg Wolfe
Irna Lyublinskaya
John Stoke
Julie Kretchman
Liza Pujji
Nathan Czuba
Sudhi Oberoi
Date Added:
04/29/2015
Commercial Solar Electric Systems
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AE 868 examines the theories and design practices of solar electric systems in the context of utility and commercial-scale applications. An important goal of the course is to equip solar professionals with skills to follow the impact of hardware trends in industry on feasibility, design, and the commissioning of such systems. Students will learn how to design solar electric systems as well as the processes required for permitting, construction, and commissioning. Topics include conceptual design of solar electric systems, solar electric technologies, inverter and power management technologies, design theory and economic analysis tools, system design processes for grid-tied and off-grid systems, integration of energy storage and demand response systems, construction project management, permitting, safety and commissioning, system monitoring, and maintenance.

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Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Atmospheric Science
Business and Communication
Communication
Engineering
Physical Science
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Full Course
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Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Author:
Mohamed Amer Chaaban
Date Added:
10/07/2019
Common Core Problem Based Curriculum Maps – emergent math
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The following Problem Based Learning (PrBL) curriculum maps are based on the Math Common Core State Standards and the associated scope and sequences. The problems and tasks have been scoured from thoughtful math bloggers who have advanced math educator practice by posting their materials online.

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Mathematics
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Full Course
Syllabus
Author:
Emergent Math
Geoff Krall
Date Added:
04/13/2021
Community Science (for Secondary Educators)
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By the end of this course participants will…Understand how local phenomena interact with the Next Generation Science Standards, climate change, ecosystems, and people in a community.Experience how local phenomena and field investigations can build scientific understanding.

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Education
Environmental Science
Life Science
Physical Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Brad Street
Date Added:
06/22/2021
Computation and Visualization in the Earth Sciences
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In EARTH 801, you will develop skills in a programming language designed for visual arts and visualization while exploring Earth science topics. Specifically, you'll learn and practice digital graphics capabilities in order to render Earth science concepts that are otherwise difficult to visualize due to complicated space and time scales. Here, you will interact with large, open, freely-available data sets by collecting, plotting, and analyzing them using a variety of computational methods. You'll be ready to teach secondary school students a range of Next Generation Science Standard skills involving data collecting, manipulation, analysis, and plotting. You'll also read and discuss current research regarding the teaching, learning, and evaluation of visualization skills, as well as multiple external representations of science concepts.

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Environmental Science
Information Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Author:
Eliza Richardson
Date Added:
10/07/2019
Conceptu
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Conceptual Chemistry is a year-long course based on CK-12 OER instructional material and supplemented with limited commercially-available materials. The course is project-based, argument-driven inquiry. Each quarter begins with presentation of an intriguing phenomenon, followed by an essential question about the phenomenon, and a project centered on answering that essential question. Throughout the quarter, students conduct research and investigations to answer portions of the question. Each unit has a student "Task" at the end that serves as an assessment of the unit's concepts. At the end of each quarter, students assemble all of the unit tasks and synthesize a personal final project that answers the essential question in a personal context chosen by the student.

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Physical Science
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Full Course
Date Added:
11/01/2018
Conceptual Chemistry
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Conceptual Chemistry is a year-long course based on CK-12 OER instructional material and supplemented with limited commercially-available materials. The course is project-based, argument-driven inquiry. Each quarter begins with presentation of an intriguing phenomenon, followed by an essential question about the phenomenon, and a project centered on answering that essential question. Throughout the quarter, students conduct research and investigations to answer portions of the question. Each unit has a student "Task" at the end that serves as an assessment of the unit's concepts. At the end of each quarter, students assemble all of the unit tasks and synthesize a personal final project that answers the essential question in a personal context chosen by the student.

Subject:
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Date Added:
07/02/2018
Conceptual Physics
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Conceptual Physics is a year-long course based on CK-12 OER instructional material and supplemented with limited commercially-available materials. The course is project-based, argument-driven inquiry. Each unit begins with presentation of an intriguing phenomenon, followed by an essential question about the phenomenon, and a project centered on answering that essential question. Throughout the unit, students conduct research and investigations to answer portions of the question. Each unit has a student "Task" at the end that serves as an assessment of the unit's concepts. At the end of each unit, students assemble all of the unit tasks and synthesize a personal final project that answers the essential question in a personal context chosen by the student.

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Astronomy
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Full Course
Lesson
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Author:
Jonathan Frostad
Gary Thayer
Malia Turner
Zachary Sawhill
Mackenzie Neal
Michael Crebbin
Washington OSPI OER Project
Date Added:
10/19/2021
Conduction, Convection and Radiation
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With the help of simple, teacher-led demonstration activities, students learn the basic concepts of heat transfer by means of conduction, convection, and radiation. Students then apply these concepts as they work in teams to solve two problems. One problem requires that they maintain the warm temperature of one soda can filled with water at approximately body temperature, and the other problem is to cause an identical soda can of warm water to cool as much as possible during the same thirty-minute time interval. Students design their solutions using only common, everyday materials. They record the water temperatures in their two soda cans every five minutes, and prepare line graphs in order to visually compare their results to the temperature of an unaltered control can of water.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
TeachEngineering
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TeachEngineering
Author:
Mary R. Hebrank
Date Added:
10/14/2015
Conhecendo os Morcegos do Alto Tietê
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Esta cartilha é o produto final do Projeto de Extensão: “Conhecendo os Morcegos do Alto Tietê” (Edital: 2021SZN_002) e foi financiado e desenvolvido no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo – campus Suzano.
Essa cartilha apresenta as caracterísiticas básicas da Ordem Chiroptera, bem como a importância ecológica dos morcegos. Além de apresentar as 16 espécies presentes na região do Alto Tietê no estado de São Paulo.

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Biology
Ecology
Education
Life Science
Zoology
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Textbook
Unit of Study
Author:
Evelyn Rodrigues
Jairo José Matozinho Cubas
Marly Eduarda Santos Coura
Thais Martinez Rodrigues Jorge
Date Added:
12/15/2021
Contemporary World Problems, Environmental Science & English
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This theme-based English course integrates reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills around assignments and activities focusing on Environmental Science and Contemporary World Problems. Topics include population, ecology, climate change, pollution, food systems, environmental racism, and sustainability. Students will specifically focus on environmental issues related to the Pacific Northwest. Laboratories and field trips are included. This competency-based class allows students to work at their own pace, exit at a level appropriate to demonstrated skills and knowledge, and earn possible high school completion English, Lab Science, Contemporary World Problems and/or elective credits.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Career and Technical Education
Education
Life Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Date Added:
06/09/2017
Controversies in the Earth Sciences
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Think science has all the answers? Think again. This course will use real, authentic data to explore and investigate modern controversies in Earth Sciences. Use tide gauge records to understand how countries around the world attempt to protect themselves from tsunami events. Process seismic data to predict earthquake recurrence in the New Madrid seismic zone, right here in the breadbasket of the US. Sort through the millions of years of the geologic timeline to shed some light on what actually did, and did not, kill the dinosaurs. Finally, use global atmospheric data to understand how misrepresentation of data can be used to paint a distorted view of past, present, and future climate.

Subject:
Applied Science
Atmospheric Science
Environmental Science
Oceanography
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences
Author:
Eliza Richardson
Date Added:
10/07/2019
C programming
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This website will be very useful for students who are beginners for C programming.

* All topics are explained very clearly and in very easy way to understand.

* Easy navigation through all topics

* Simple example programs and output

* Real time application programs with source code

Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Primary Source
Provider:
fresh2refresh
Author:
Thiyagarajan
Date Added:
11/05/2013
Dams
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Through eight lessons, students are introduced to many facets of dams, including their basic components, the common types (all designed to resist strong forces), their primary benefits (electricity generation, water supply, flood control, irrigation, recreation), and their importance (historically, currently and globally). Through an introduction to kinetic and potential energy, students come to understand how dams generate electricity. They learn about the structure, function and purpose of locks, which involves an introduction to Pascal's law, water pressure and gravity. Other lessons introduce students to common environmental impacts of dams and the engineering approaches to address them. They learn about the life cycle of salmon and the many engineered dam structures that aid in their river passage, as they think of their own methods and devices that could help fish migrate past dams. Students learn how dams and reservoirs become part of the Earth's hydrologic cycle, focusing on the role of evaporation. To conclude, students learn that dams do not last forever; they require ongoing maintenance, occasionally fail or succumb to "old age," or are no longer needed, and are sometimes removed. Through associated hands-on activities, students track their personal water usage; use clay and plastic containers to model and test four types of dam structures; use paper cups and water to learn about water pressure and Pascal's Law; explore kinetic energy by creating their own experimental waterwheel from two-liter plastic bottles; collect and count a stream's insects to gauge its health; play an animated PowerPoint game to quiz their understanding of the salmon life cycle and fish ladders; run a weeklong experiment to measure water evaporation and graph their data; and research eight dams to find out and compare their original purposes, current status, reservoir capacity and lifespan. Woven throughout the unit is a continuing hypothetical scenario in which students act as consulting engineers with a Splash Engineering firm, assisting Thirsty County in designing a dam for Birdseye River.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Hydrology
Physical Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Unit of Study
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Provider Set:
TeachEngineering
Date Added:
09/18/2014
Data Science: A First Introduction with Python
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This is a textbook for teaching data science using the Python programming language at a general first year undergraduate level.

Subject:
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Joel Ostblom
Lindsey Heagy
Melissa Lee
Tiffany Timbers
Trevor Campbell
Date Added:
04/02/2024
Data Science Lessons Grades 6-10
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This page shares five units of youcubed lessons for grades 6-10 that introduce students (and teachers) to data science. The units start with an introduction to the concept of data and move to lessons that invite students to explore their own data sets. These lessons teach important content through a pattern-seeking, exploratory approach, and are designed to engage students actively.







Data Science LessonsThis page shares five units of youcubed lessons for grades 6-10 that introduce students (and teachers) to data science. The units start with an introduction to the concept of data and move to lessons that invite students to explore their own data sets.  These lessons teach important content through a pattern-seeking, exploratory approach, and are designed to engage students actively. The culminating unit is a citizen science project that gives students an opportunity to conduct a data inquiry. The lessons accompany a new online course for teachers, where some of the lessons are featured, along with other lesson ideas. These lessons are offered with ideas for in-person or online teaching, and can be taught at any time of year.









LessonsTeacher Online Course: 21st Century Teaching and LearningUnit 1: Data Is EverywhereUnit 2: Working With Data Analysis ToolsUnit 3: Measures of Center & SpreadUnit 4: Understanding VariabilityUnit 5: A Community Data Collection Project

ResourcesHigh School Data Science CourseCODAPWhat's Going On In This Graph?Data Science Initiative VideoThe Data Science K-12 MovementData Talks



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A Picture Book Introduction to Data Science






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Stanford News Press Release

Subject:
Applied Science
Mathematics
Measurement and Data
Statistics and Probability
Material Type:
Full Course
Author:
YouCubed
Date Added:
09/23/2020