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Cultivating Diversity Champions: Practices And Lessons From Two Nsf Geoscience Opportunities For Leadership In Diversity (Gold) Projects, American Society For Engineering Education
Cultivating Diversity Champions: Practices And Lessons From Two Nsf Geoscience Opportunities For Leadership In Diversity (Gold) Projects, American Society For Engineering Education
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The United States needs a diverse scientific workforce in order to tap fresh thinking and talent needed to advance the country’s competitive edge and economic well-being. This is particularly true in the geoscience fields, where women and people of color have been underrepresented for decades. Geoscience expertise is crucial to weather forecasting, sea commerce, air safety, protecting communities from wildfires and many other applications.
The National Science Foundation’s Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity, which ran from 2016 to 2019, sought ways to improve diversity, inclusion and equity in the geosciences. Its five projects took different approaches, but all faced …
Feeding Time: How Nutrients Drive Phytoplankton Growth, Brianna Stanley
Feeding Time: How Nutrients Drive Phytoplankton Growth, Brianna Stanley
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
This lesson plan helps students make the connection between the amount of nutrients present in an ecosystem and the resulting growth of phytoplankton in our coastal waters. This lesson takes this concept a step deeper, by exploring how the proportions of nitrogen and phosphorus in the environment create the ideal conditions for phytoplankton growth. Students will explore the concept of limiting factors and will work on both their graphing skills and their ability to compare ratios.
Using Long-Term Data From Antarctica To Teach Ocean Acidification, Patrica S. Thibodeau
Using Long-Term Data From Antarctica To Teach Ocean Acidification, Patrica S. Thibodeau
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There is a mystery to be solved! This lesson plan asks students to identify the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of ocean acidification (OA). Global oceans have absorbed approximately a third of the CO2 produced by human activities, such as burning of fossil fuels, over the past decade (Sabine et al. 2004). This accumulation of CO2 in the ocean has lowered average global ocean pH and decreased the concentration of carbonate ions (CO/ ) (Fabry et al. 2008). As a result of this OA, the carbonate chemistry of the global ocean is rapidly changing and affecting marine organisms …
The Code In The Water: An Investigation Into Harmful And Non-Harmful Algal Blooms, Samantha Fortin
The Code In The Water: An Investigation Into Harmful And Non-Harmful Algal Blooms, Samantha Fortin
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
Algal blooms can be detected using the DNA extracted from water samples. This activity allows students to identify algae and understand the causes of algal blooms.
What's In The Muck? Benthic Sediment Characterization And Community Structure, Cristin Wright
What's In The Muck? Benthic Sediment Characterization And Community Structure, Cristin Wright
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
Sediment classification and grain size can affect the types of organisms that live in the sediment. Some organisms prefer sandier sediment, while others love the fine-grained mud.
In this activity, students will classify sediment samples by grain size and plot their findings on a ternary plot. The students will then further investigate which benthic organisms live in the different sediments and which may be more resilient to a change in sediment classification.
Dna Detectives: Protecting Endangered Species, Samantha Askin
Dna Detectives: Protecting Endangered Species, Samantha Askin
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
For this lesson, students will be U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biologists. They will be tasked with figuring out which endangered or threatened species they have by identifying a genetic sequence unique to their species. The students will then have to research why their species in endangered or threatened and write a formal report of their findings to the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Dichotomous Keys: An Essential Tool For Fish Detectives, Jackson Martinez
Dichotomous Keys: An Essential Tool For Fish Detectives, Jackson Martinez
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Grades: 6-8 Subjects: Life Science | Biology
How do scientists identify an unknown fish?
In this activity, students will utilize a dichotomous key to identify unknown fishes from the Chesapeake Bay and will then characterize their trophic levels based on feeding preferences and adaptations. Students will gain an understanding of organism classification, trophic level interactions, and how fishes may play different trophic roles throughout their lives.
Old Macdonald Had An Aquaculture Farm, Shantelle Landry
Old Macdonald Had An Aquaculture Farm, Shantelle Landry
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Grades: 6 Subjects: Earth Science | Natural Resources
With this activity, students will learn the importance of aquaculture and how it can be used to manage a resource.
Trees Of The Seas, Michelle Woods
Trees Of The Seas, Michelle Woods
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Grades: 6-8 Subjects: Biology | Life Science
What are harmful algal blooms and why do they occur?
In this lesson plan, students will run their own experiments to investigate how eutrophication can cause harmful algal blooms and investigate strategies for preventing them.
Tiny Killers, Sarah Pease
Tiny Killers, Sarah Pease
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
What different methods and new technologies are used to monitor harmful algae and the toxins that they produce?
Students will learn about how harmful algae threaten human health through the processes of bioaccumulation and biomagnification. In small groups, they will design a harmful algae monitoring program based on mock harmful algae data, and then they will test their monitoring program and discover some of the challenges and limitations of any monitoring plan that attempts to measure variable, natural events.
Zoop Soup (And Poop!), Kristen Sharpe
Zoop Soup (And Poop!), Kristen Sharpe
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Grades: 6-12 Subjects: Biology | Life Science | Environmental Science | Oceanography
Microscopic poops with a global impact!
Students learn about the ecological and global importance of zooplankton and their fecal pellets in the ocean carbon cycle. Students are guided through the scientific method while participating in an activity that simulates real sediment trap fecal pellet research. Students hypothesize where a sediment trap was set based on the "fecal pellets" contained in their sample, identify source species using a dichotomous key, count and weigh biomass of pellets, and graph and share results with classmates.
The Mo(Ve)Ment To Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics: Planning For This And Every School Year, Maria Del Rosario Zavala, Ma Bernadette Andres-Salgarino, Zandra De Araujo, Amber G. Candela, Gladys Krause, Erin Sylves
The Mo(Ve)Ment To Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics: Planning For This And Every School Year, Maria Del Rosario Zavala, Ma Bernadette Andres-Salgarino, Zandra De Araujo, Amber G. Candela, Gladys Krause, Erin Sylves
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TODOS: Mathematics for ALL is proud of its almost two decades of advocacy for equity and excellence for all children in mathematics education, specifically Latina/o children. Over the years, TODOS has delivered webinars, podcasts, blogs, conferences, and resources for educators, families, and children to address and provide tools to eliminate the harmful practices too many children and families experience in school and in life. This position statement, The Mo(ve)ment to Prioritize Antiracist Mathematics: Planning for This and Every School Year, and supporting commentaries, including one commentary in Spanish - place the essential actions of the 2016 NCSM - …
Isotopes In The Estuary: Conception And Application Of Stable And Radioactive Carbon, Derek Detweiler
Isotopes In The Estuary: Conception And Application Of Stable And Radioactive Carbon, Derek Detweiler
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Chemistry | Environmental Science | Oceanography
In this interactive estuary-focused activity, students will examine stable and radioactive isotope data which provide information about the source and age of environmental samples such as plant and soil matter. Students will calculate average isotope ratios from five reference land types (forest, wetland, agriculture, industry, aquatic) and an unknown site within an estuary. Students will graph their calculated ratios and determine the land type that most impacts their estuary based on reference-to-unknown comparisons.
Wave Fever: The Climate Induced Range Expansion Of The Atlantic Marsh Fiddler Crab, Kayla Martinez-Soto
Wave Fever: The Climate Induced Range Expansion Of The Atlantic Marsh Fiddler Crab, Kayla Martinez-Soto
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Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Biology | Environmental Science | Oceanography
In 2014, scientists found that the Atlantic marsh fiddler crab had extended its northern limit by ~90 miles to New Hampshire, which is in the Gulf of Maine. Range expanding species can alter salt marsh characteristics such as biodiversity and food webs. In this lesson, students will combine sea surface temperature data from a federal database and fiddler burrow densities from field photos to determine the relationship between ocean warming and range expansions.