DEAF SUCCEED Student Activities

	Pre-Computational Science
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ASL	What is computational science? Observational science Experimental science Theoretical science Computational science
ASL	Who uses computational science? What do computational scientists do? How do I learn computational science? Why should I learn computational science?

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The Effect of Medications on Daphnia

Medications are being found in our rivers and lakes. Will these chemicals affect the plants and animals that live in our waterways? This activity looks at the effect of these medication levels on the fresh water animals; daphnia.

	Biology
ASL	Activity:
ASL	The Effect of Medications on Daphnia Simulates the affect of medications found in rivers on daphnia.
ASL	How Does a Hair Know, How Long to Grow Allows students to determine how eye brows, arm and scalp hair maintain constant but different lengths.

	Physics
ASL	Activity:
ASL	Ohm's Law Using a simulated circuit board the students discover Ohm's Law.

	Environmental Science
ASL	Activity:
ASL	Will Global Warming Push Trees to Extinction? The EPA estimates that for each 1 degree of global warming the average temperature for an area will move north 100 miles over the next 100 years. What will happen to trees' ranges?
ASL	Surface Water Runoff Modeling Use a spreadsheet model to calculate the storm water runoff from a field or neighborhood.
ASL	Rain Gardens Using a model to calculate the "rain garden" area needed to sequester and absorb the additional storm water runoff created by urban development.
ASL	How to Weigh a Tree and calculate its Carbon Use a ruler, string and model to calculate the weight of a tree outside your window. The model also calculates the CO2 that your tree has sequestered.
ASL	Forest, Mining Carbon from the Air Use a forestry model to discover a forest's role in atmospheric CO2 levels.
ASL	Forest Fire Students use the "Fire!" model to explore forest fires.
ASL	Peppered Moths In England between 1800 and 2000 peppered moths changed from white to black and back to white again. In this activity we will examine how scientists tried to explain why peppered moths changed color.

	Mathematics
ASL	Activity:
ASL	Sieve of Eratosthenes Find prime numbers by systematically eliminating multiples from a range of numbers.
ASL	RSA Cryptology Use prime numbers to encrypt and decrypt messages using the RSA method.
ASL	Modular Mathematics Explore and practice modular arithmetic.

	Astronomy
ASL	Activity:
ASL	Predicting lunar eclipses Create a spreadsheet to predict lunar eclipses.
ASL	Calculating Orbital Speeds Create a spreadsheet that calculates the fastest and slowest speeds of the moon or any other body that orbits the Earth or sun.

	Health and Biosciences
ASL	Activity:
ASL	Flu Devise a sick leave policy for a company in a small town using a model of a flu epidemic.
ASL	Calories What are calories? How many of these calories do you need to live? How many do you need to do the things you do? Are you eating enough to provide you with the calories you need? The answer to these questions are explored in this model. Health related issues such as dieting are also discussed in this model.

Developed by
The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.

This project is supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation

Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation.