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Eye in the Sky: An Introduction to GIS & Scale
New computer technologies allow us to examine scientific data at a variety of different scales from global to local. In this investigation students us...
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Drops to the Ocean: A GIS Study of River Basins
Water is a critical element of life. It plays a crucial role at many scales from singles cells to huge river systems. In this investigation, students ...
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As science extends into the very large and the very small ends of the scale, the images of objects and materials lose recognizable contexts and can be...
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That’s Hot! The Effect of Size on Rate of Heat Loss
Through the use of common household items such as aluminum pans and thermometers, students will investigate how the size and shape of an object affect...
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Sweet! Exploring Surface Area of Sugar Molecules
Two forces that are very familiar to us in our daily lives are gravity and adhesion. The force of gravity on an object, which we commonly refer to as ...
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Captivating Cubes: Investigating Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio
In this two-part activity, students investigate how surface area-to-volume ratios change with cube size. Students apply those calculations to explore ...
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In this two-part activity, students make inferences about the relationships between egg size, incubation time, and bird size from data sets collected ...
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Could a bug ever be the size of a Volkswagen Beetle? Could a dragonfly be larger than a seagull? Movies often portray huge creatures that roam the Ear...
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Across the different sciences one of the common challenges that researchers encounter is defining and measuring different variables. An essential part...
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Flying Foam: The Scale of Forces
The forces that are important for very large objects can be quite different than the forces that are important for very small objects. A planet is ess...
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The same material may behave differently at different scales. These variations can become critical in understanding science at very large or very smal...
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Fractals: Self-Similar at Different Scales
Fractal geometry enables researchers to analyze complex shapes of natural objects and compare one system to another. It helps us define structure in n...
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Screening My Calls: Scale and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Light is just one type of electromagnetic radiation; it belongs to the visible portion of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. The other regions of the ...
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Stringy Chemistry and States of Matter
Solids, liquids, and gases are familiar to students as the different states of matter. Why are some substances gases and some solid at room temperatur...
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Our sensory organs are finely tuned instruments that not only detect but also measure different environmental inputs. In particular, our eyes, ears, a...