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Schedule an advising appointment to learn more about studying abroad in Berlin in the Spring 2025 semester! Applications are open for both the Berlin Consortium for German Studies program and the BCGS ...

Learn about and engage with backward design: a scalable, end-in-mind approach to instruction that will help you effectively plan an activity, a class session, or an entire course. In this workshop for ...

To get some very basic descriptions of the Earth we will start by describing some of the simplest of all the Earth's properties - how big, how heavy, how hot, how strong - and how they were deduced.

1.2 Mass of the Earth: Cavendish's Experiment to "Weigh the Earth" The next thing is to try to find out how much the Earth might weigh. This is much more difficult, and requires a very cunning ...

Relating what Erastosthenes did to the ideas in our opening comments, we would say that the data available to Erathosthenes was the curious observations of shadows in wells and sticks. He then used a ...

Heat is a form of energy and is transported through the Earth. In general the direction of heat flow is outward. Heat energy is transported in the Earth by two primary mechanisms - Conduction - in ...

What we have learnt about in the first Topic are large-scale (macro) properties of the Earth. They are also mostly "static" properties - that is, properties that pertain to descriptions of the Earth, ...

Imagine you are a visitor from another world and you have come to earth for one semester. You have been given the mission of learning enough to be able to make the entry under "Planet Earth" in the ...

Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2023, generative AI has greatly impacted teaching and learning in higher education. Join the CTL to explore how you might leverage these tools for your teaching ...

Growing up in California, my father was a fresh air fanatic. He insisted that you should always sleep with a window slightly ajar for some fresh air. That worked fine in California, but it created ...