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Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?
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Students design a simple behavioral survey, and learn basic protocol for primary research, survey design and report writing. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world — concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
TeachEngineering
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TeachEngineering
Author:
Denise Carlson
Jane Evenson
Malinda Schaefer Zarske
Date Added:
10/14/2015
Reading Scientific Research
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Academic research articles have a structure and language that is different from our other reading materials such as textbooks. This lesson can help students new to academic research understand these differences and learn strategies for finding information in such articles.

Subject:
Applied Science
English Language Arts
Information Science
Reading Informational Text
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Homework/Assignment
Module
Provider:
New Literacies Alliance
Author:
Alice Anderson
Ashley Stark
New Literacies Alliance
Prasanna Vaduvathiriyan
Rachel Vukas
Robyn Hartman
Date Added:
08/20/2021
“Research into Your Roots and What it Tells You about the World” Two Assignments
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This is a two-fold first-year college writing Research Writing assignment. In the first part, students do research into their own family/community history. In the second part, they select a particular person, moment, place, or time that they learned about during their genealogical research, and this will become the subject of their research project in the areas of sociology, geography, environmental studies, psychology, or medicine. Students choose what question they would like to explore further and the question itself stems from their family history findings.  

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
History
Material Type:
Homework/Assignment
Primary Source
Unit of Study
Author:
Polina Belimova
Date Added:
05/03/2021