(8) CSCS Activities

• Use the CSCL Investigation Template to develop a website as a repository for all of your CSCL / CSCS Investigations

  • Copied / Adapted CSCL/CSCS lessons performed in class.

  • Collaboratively developed CSCS lessons

    • Your version of Tree-rings & climate

  • Your unique lesson

    • Your unique CSCS lesson. (see bottom of online assignment). Note, this should be embedded in a webpage.

  • Implement 3 or more CSCS lessons in your class

Please copy and customize the following activities performed in class. Each activity should be in your own account, under your own control. Make sure that all associated documents are in your own account.

Investigations performed in 619

• Memory - make your own version

• Energy Transfer - make your own version

• Hurricanes - Tropical Cyclones

• Genetics - Phenotypic frequency

• Getting to know your students

• Harmonic Motion - Calculating the period of a pendulum

• Mapping exercise - post map using Scan & Post technique

Investigations performed in 646

• Tree-rings & climate

• Osmosis (data sheet, graphing, calculations, statistics, pdf resources, external calculators, conditional formatting)

• Determining the wavelength of light (animated GIFs, scans, remote photo album, histograms)

• Arenology - Study of sand - (video microscopy, collaborative mapping)

• Motion sensors - Walking Through Graphs

• Mitosis - Cell cycle

• Exercise and Motion Analysis 1 - (GPS/mapping)

• Exercise and Motion Analysis 2 - (GPS/mapping)

• Earthquakes and Volcanoes

• Biomes and Climographs

• Constructing a Periodic Table - (simultaneous solutions using presentation tool)

• Powers of Ten - Orders of Magnitude - (collaborative presentations)

• Organizational Hierarchy in Biology - (collaborative presentations)

• Audio Analysis (probeware)

• Reaction Time (probeware)

• Endothermic and Exothermic reactions