In this activity, students interpret the motion of a car using its related velocity and acceleration vectors.

Students will utilize an applet to further expand their knowledge of confidence intervals.

This visualization activity combines student data collection with the use of an applet to enhance the understanding of the distributions of mean square treatment (MST), mean square error (MSE) as well as their ratio, an F-distribution. Students will see theoretical distributions of the mean square treatment, mean square error and their ratio and how they compare to the histograms generated by the simulated data.

The major practical activity for Astronomy 4261: Modern Observational Techniques is an observing project using the Highland Road Park Observatory CCD (charge coupled device) camera. This project encompasses the formal portions for both written and spoken communication, and carries 55% of the course credit �� it is a major assignment. In addition to the final report being submitted at the end of the semester, two interim written submissions and two oral presentations are required. All written and oral projects are modeled on real-world professional communication projects.

This activity allows students to investigate classification and create their own dichotomous key. Discussion will include classification of items in everyday life.

This peer review of writing tool helps students improve their writing by asking their peers in the class to provide feedback in a constructive manner.

A variety of fuels are evaluated for the amount of heat they liberate upon burning. This includes a discussion of how different criteria can influence the evaluation of what makes a "good" fuel.

Students will utilize factually observed or researched information in a creative high interest-writing project.

Spreadsheets Across the Curriculum module/Geology of National Parks course. Students estimate travel times and costs of a driving/camping trip to visit national parks in the Colorado Plateau.

Students will fill in a blank periodic table for elements 1-20 using electron-dot models. As a visual tool students should see several periodic trends.

This experiment illustrates the value of exchange to students through trading of candy.

Undergraduate Learning Assistants have been used to facilitate group work in a variety of ways, such as in-lecture tutorials and worksheets, group work in required recitations, and group work in optional co-seminars. This page describes some of these various ways that Learning Assistants can be used to help make a course more interactive.

This activity is a indoor lab where students gather data within their school to develop the concept of displacement in two dimensional motion.

Students work in groups to find a "treasure" using a treasure map with directions written in vector format.

Compare lifting a bowling ball directly (one small person) to lifting a bowling ball at an angle with two people holding the ends of a rope and the ball hooked to the middle of the rope.

Provide opportunities to experience historic and/or current scientific information through audio/visual media. Further, these sessions allow students to express and discuss their understanding of the science content and its relevance prior to writing a summary.

This is a computer lab activity where students view images of stars, nebulas, and galaxies and discover factors in telescope design that allow scientists to study the universe. The students will write questions about the images and produce a power point presentation on features of the universe.

The use of new technological motion sensing cameras creates a motivation for students in this life science lesson.

This is a virtual lab activity on the photoelectric effect based on a Java applet simulation of the experiment.

Students explore the motion of molecules and the ways in which they interact.