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| Title | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
 Language for describing variability |
A helpful document with language for describing variability in a dataset. | Teacher instructionals & primers, Data literacy instructionals |
 A Practical Guide to Managing Fieldwork and Data |
A collection of suggested practices and how to’s for snowpack teachers, by snowpack teachers | Teacher instructionals & primers |
| Snow water equivalent vs. snow density--working through the differences |
Teacher instructionals & primers | |
| Data Warm-Ups | The goal of this activity is to demonstrate that there is natural variability when we make measurements and observations. | Curriculum activity |
| A watershed for all seasons | This is a reading and discussion activity--students discuss the effects of watershed and season on the nitrogen cycle. | Curriculum activity |
| Data Interpretation | Guide students to interpret their data as the data relate to their hypothesis. | Curriculum activity |
| Data Organization | Getting all data—field and lab—into one spreadsheet. | Curriculum activity |
| Data Presentation | Students graph their data. | Curriculum activity |
| An Introduction to the Nitrogen Cycle | This activity introduces the nitrogen cycle in the context in which we will be conducting our research: forested landscapes influenced by four distinct seasons. | Curriculum activity |
| Why do we Care about Mercury? | This activity involves doing library or Internet research and then doing calculations based on that research, to answer some mercury questions. | Curriculum activity |
| Expanding the View of Nitrogen Cycling | Students use text and visual resources to gain a basic understanding of the whole nitrogen cycle, and then use that understanding to add to the diagram of the nitrogen cycle created in Activity 1. | Curriculum activity |
| Habitat Connectivity | Students watch two brief videos and discuss the idea of habitat connectivity. | Curriculum activity |
| Nitrogen: too much of a good thing | Students interpret graphical data that have come from a long-term study of nitrogen additions to a forested ecosystem. | Curriculum activity |
| Concentration as a unit of measurement | Activity to understand environmentally realistic concentrations. | Curriculum activity |
| The Road to Toxicity | An activity to help students get some idea about where mercury comes from and how it develops into a toxic form that can be ingested by living things. | Curriculum activity |
| Mapping U.S. Mercury Emissions | This activity tracks that mercury back to one of its sources (electric utilities), using data collected by the US Environmental Protection Agency. | Curriculum activity |
| Authoring a research poster | After outlining the poster, students now create their research poster. | Curriculum activity |
| Outlining the project | In this activity students get together all of the information they need to begin authoring a poster – notes, reports from other activities, data, graphs, etc. Then students think through the ‘storyline’ of their project and outline the elements that will | Curriculum activity |
| Presenting your research | Students present their research in poster session format, are available to talk people through the poster and their research, and to answer questions. | Curriculum activity |
| Developing research questions and hypotheses | This activity is primarily a brainstorming activity that looks at the assumptions, mechanisms, and unanswered questions that are buried in the students’ picture of the system they are studying. | Curriculum activity |
| Hypothesis peer review | A brief exercise in peer review. | Curriculum activity |
| Creating a video of your proposed hypothesis | Students develop, practice and record a brief, scripted presentation of their scientific claim (30 seconds to 2 minutes is sufficient). | Curriculum activity |
| Reviewing proposed hypothesis videos | Students review and provide constructive feedback on the hypothesis videos of student researchers from other schools. | Curriculum activity |
| Toxicology and Living Systems | How does mercury get into organisms, how does it move through their systems, and how does it affect them? This activity begins to introduce students to answers to these questions. | Curriculum activity |
| Mercury in our study site, and how does it move? | This is the essential activity within Unit 2 and has students visit (or virtually visit) their field site in order to better understand its ecosystem and the food web that exists there. | Curriculum activity |