Tardigrades
Students take on the role of a astrobiologist whose mission is to learn about extremophiles and the resiliency of tardigrades.
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A Universe Through Pictures
Students love cell phones and especially cell phone cameras. But today’s imaging technology provides incredible possibilities of observation. My fellowship at Lockheed Martin’s Optical Payload Center of Excellence provided the window to view an entirely unimagined universe of observation.
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Another Way to the Circumcenter
In teams of 3-4 members, Geometry Honors students will receive a problem on finding the circumcenter of a triangle and its algebraic solution. The solution involves a concept and theorem covered prior to this, but for which a graphical solution has not been covered.
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Carbon Passport
Carbon Passport is a small group project for high school life, earth, or environmental science classes. Students create a table top game in which players act as carbon atoms that cycle through the earth’s atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere in both biotic and abiotic forms.
Hurricanes and the Coriolis Effect
Severe Weather is an online inquiry-based unit developed with the WISE (Web-based Inquiry Science Environment) platform.
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“Turntable Ocean”
Fluid motion plays a critical role in regulating Earth's climate, for example through the transport of heat by ocean currents and winds in the atmosphere. The Earth’s rotation strongly constrains the dynamics of these motions and thus shapes how the climate works.
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The Reason for the Seasons
During this lesson, students will conduct an in-class activity that will focus on their ability to synthesize information regarding how the position of the sun and earth determine Earth’s annual seasons.
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