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Lesson Plans Created with Partner Teachers

What's in your water? Wyoming's Link to the Global Community

Students will investigate the role that science plays in society, and work together to develop a remediation plan for a real-world groundwater arsenic contamination problem in Wyoming. To do this, they will draw on principles of: geology, chemistry, environmental science, biology and medicine. 

Lesson 1: Ground Water: The Water Beneath Our Feet
Lesson 2: Coal-bed Methane Production: Who Polluted the Water?
Lesson 3: Arsenic and Human Health: An Introduction to Toxicology
Lesson 4: How Safe Is Your Water? An Introduction to Water Quality Testing
Lesson 5: Remediation and Consensus: Real-World Complexities

Lesson Plans Created by Former Science Posse Fellows

GENETICS Sherry Adrianos: Isolating DNA from Fruit Jacque Keele: Introduction to Genetics EPIDEMIOLOGY Brandon Munk: Disease Susceptibility and Transmission: The Epidemiologist's Dilemma NUTRITION Nancy Van Dyke: Plants and People: Nutrition and Technology	PHYSIOLOGY Clark Cotton: Cellular Basis for Cardiac Function and the Relationship to Metabolic Rate Lesson Plan Module 1 PowerPoint Module 2 PowerPoint and Worksheet Module 3 PowerPoint and Worksheet Module 4 Worksheet Module 5 Worksheet NEUROBIOLOGY Shawna McBride: The Brain: What Is Going on in There? The Brain, Learning and Stress
MATHEMATICS Megan Schnorenberg: Was Bluebeard Just a Lucky Pirate? A Lesson on Vectors Unit Plan PowerPoint Student Handout Appendix	ENGINEERING AND ROBOTICS Tim Brothers: The World Is a Toy Box: An Introduction to Engineering and Robotics Lesson Overview PowerPoint
PSYCHOLOGY Ethan McMahan: Psychology Mock Trials Maggie Renken: Human Behavior and Adaptation Overview Lesson 1: Can you train your parents? PowerPoint Student Handout Lesson 2: Do fish feel fear? PowerPoint Student Handout Lesson 3: Is yawning contagious? PowerPoint Student Handout Lesson 4: Are you dreaming? PowerPoint Student Handout	EARTH SCIENCE Jonathan Hoffman: Geologic Time Lesson Plan Absolute Time and Radioactive Decay Extra Radioactive Decay Exercise Relative Dating Worksheet Uncle Harrold Eric Anderson: Climate Factors, Green House Gases and Global Warming Lesson Overview PowerPoint
ELECTRICITY Luke Dosiek: Fun with Electricity Lesson 1: Electric Circuits PowerPoint Activity Sheet: Series and Parallel Lesson 2: Electricity and Magnetism Activity Sheets: The Simple Electric Motor The Electromagnet The Telegraph Information Sheet: The Right Hand Rule PowerPoint Lesson 3: Electrical Energy Storage Activity Sheet: The Voltaic Pile Information Sheet: The Voltaic Pile PowerPoint	ECOLOGY Jamie Crait: Nature's Laboratory: Ecology in Your Backyard and Beyond Lesson Overview Lesson 1: PowerPoint and Handout 1 and Handout 2 Lesson 2: PowerPoint and Handout Lesson 3: PowerPoint Liz Flaherty: Ecosystem Management: Interactions between Sea Otters and Killer Whales Outline Lesson 1 Activity 1 Worksheet Activity 3 Worksheet Assessment Lesson 2 Station Photos Station Questions Lesson 4 Activity 2 Worksheet Worksheet and Assessment Activity Lesson 5 Activity 1 Assessment Activity 2 Assessment Killer Whale and Sea Otter PowerPoint Estes et al. Article Using Wyoming Wildlife Research to Teach Biology: How will the pine bark beetle outbreak impact least chipmunks? Lesson Plan Outline Lesson 1 Worksheet

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