Fundamental Methods of Logic is suitable for a one-semester introduction to logic/critical reasoning course. It covers a variety of topics at an introductory level. Chapter One introduces basic notions, such as arguments and explanations, validity and soundness, deductive and inductive reasoning; it also covers basic analytical techniques, such as distinguishing premises from conclusions and diagramming arguments. Chapter Two discusses informal logical fallacies. Chapters Three and Four concern deductive logic, introducing the basics of Aristotelian and Sentential Logic, respectively. Chapter Five deals with analogical and causal reasoning, including a discussion of Mill's Methods. Chapter Six covers basic probability calculations, Bayesian inference, fundamental statistical concepts and techniques, and common statistical fallacies.

This lesson plan, from the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Wisconsin Fast Plants, is for a high school biology investigation into evolution and artificial selection while using Fast Plants polycot seeds. The lesson plan describes student science performance for in-classroom learning as well as distance learning, and assessment for student learning. Additionally, this resource includes a sample calendar to demonstrate how educators can implement this investigation into their classroom. This resource is related to Evidence of Natural Selection Activities and Investigating Selection with New Polycots Fast Plants, which are available to view separately.

The Hot Balloon game lets you control the altitude of the balloon through heating the balloon or releasing air from the air flaps. Hot air rises the balloon through a force called buoyancy. The difference between the outside and the inside air determines the amount of buoyancy. Using weight difference, wind speeds and limited fuel the balloon can go on the farthest rides.

This video is provided by Wisconsin Fast Plants and demonstrates how to plant Fast Plants seeds using the Deli Container Growing System. The video gives an overview of the materials necessary to grow plants with this method, and also provides step-by-step instructions guiding the process. This recording runs for 02:47 minutes in length. Additional videos about planting with Fast Plants are available to view separately.

In this syllabus from Fall 2022, Dr. Jessica Warwick provides bibliographic citations for open education resources used in place of a traditional textbook. Topics include: Nature of Science; Principles of Biology; Molecules; Cells; Cellular Metabolism; Intro to Organ Systems; Skeletal System; Muscular System; Cardiovascular System; Respiratory System; Nervous System; Sensory Systems; Endocrine Systems; Digestive Systems; Excretory System; Immune System; Reproductive System; DNA; Cellular Reproduction and Division; Genetics; Human Evolution

In this syllabus from Fall 2022, Dr. Jillian Jacklin provides bibliographic citations and annotations for resources used in place of a traditional textbook. These resources include a combination of Creative Commons licensed materials. Topics include: What is Oral History; Becoming Latina/x; Making Historical Memory; The Power of Place; Work, Class, & Forging Communities of Solidarity; Healthcare, Motherhood, & Race; Gender, Power, & Solidarity Stories; Revolutionary Women; The Telling is Political; Imagined Latina/x Communities; Finding the Movement; Chicana Power; Claiming a Voice, Demanding Justice; We All Make and Are History

In this laboratory manual from Spring 2024, Dr. Jeremy Baron provides lab experiments for an introductory physics course. These resources include lab instructions, equipment lists, objectives, background theory, procedures, experiment instructions, and data analysis instructions/prompts all created by Dr. Baron.

Experiments include: Coulomb's Law; Equipotentials; Basic Electricity; Ohm's Law; RC Circuits; Ampere's Law; Transformers; Geometric Optics; Diffraction

This book is a cloned version of KINES 200: Introductory Neuroscience by Peter L.E. van Kan, Ph.D., published using Pressbooks under a CC BY (Attribution) license. It may differ from the original.

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This games let you explore magnetic fields. Magnetic fields radiate from the N to the S side of a magnet in a predictable way. By changing the shape of the magnet, these fields change shape.

As disease-infected mosquitoes expand their range, these bugs rise higher on the "menace to human health" list. What makes mosquitoes so perfect for disease transfer? Is global warming a factor? How is modern technology being harnessed to combat skeeters? National standards included for grades 5-12. Teacher resource page at http://whyfiles.org/teachers/016skeeter/.

In this syllabus from Spring 2023, Dr. Michelle McQuade Dewhirst provides bibliographic citations for open education resources used in place of a traditional textbook. This course examines Western art music from the end of the Classical era to the present. The topics covered in this course include: Beethoven: The Man, the Myth, the Legend; Romanticism and Art Song; Romanticism in Instrumental Genres; Romanticism in Opera; Diverging Traditions in the Later 19th Century; Late Romanticism; The Early Twentieth Century; Modernism; Now What? -Isms; The Twenty-First Century

These materials, created by Dr. Adam Gaines in Summer 2023, feature a syllabus, video lectures, bibliographic references, assignment prompts, discussion questions, and links to library resources, like Ken Burns' film, Jazz.
The topics covered in this course include: Background through 1910s: Jazz Heritage and Early Styles; 1920s Through 1940s: The Jazz Age and The Swing Era; 1950s Through 1980s: Breakthroughs, Fusions and Reexaminations; 1990s Through Today: An Evolving Artform.

The nitrogen cycle game helps you learn how nitrogen atoms move through various forms including soil, the atmosphere, plants and animals. Actions such as lightening, bacteria digestion, plant assimilation, plant death, animal death, herbivorism and nitrogen fixing plant bacteria move nitrogen from one form to another.

This is an evolving resource intended to provide inspiration for instructors who use Pressbooks and Open Educational Resources for their teaching.

This guide is currently in the open creation stage, meaning that it is in-progress, but openly licensed.[1] In other words, this is a resource in flux: we will be composing, revising, and reorganizing these materials over the course of the coming months.

Proceedings of a national conference held in Madison, Wisconsin in April, 1998 to discuss parenthood as a developmental process.

In The Phoenix Project, 3-5 players take on the roles of community members striving to rebuild their city after ruination and disaster. In this game, players collaboratively create a map across four phases of gameplay—Determine the Disaster, The City Before, The City at Present, and The City to Come. Players take turns during these phases, building on, expanding, and complicating each other's contributions to the map with the goal of telling a rich and evolving story of adaptability in the face of world-changing events and circumstances. The game aims to foster cooperation, creativity, and empathy as players navigate challenges and obstacles, shaping the future of their city and their world. While the length of gameplay can be adjusted by the players as they wish, the standard game is expected to take around 45 to 60 minutes to play.

In these videos from Spring 2022, Dr. Mahmoud Hammouri in provides illustrative examples for students to use while completing assignments. Examples include: Vertical motion example 1; Vertical motion example 2; Projectile motion example; Try it: projectile motion; Vectors review; Vector addition part 1; Vector addition part 2; Try it: Vectors; Horizontal motion example 1; Horizontal example 2; Try it: horizontal motion; Distance and displacement; Try it: distance and displacement; Newton's 2nd law applications: Example 1; Newton's 2nd law applications: Example 2; Newton's 2nd law applications: Example 3; Newton's 2nd law applications: Example 4 part 1; Newton's 2nd law applications: Example 4 part 2; Work and kinetic energy examples; Loop-the-loop track example; Spring-mass system example; Try it: Mass-spring system; Mass-spring system; Try it: Runaway truck; Solid and hollow spheres sliding without slipping; Atwood's machine; Acceleration of a rolling sphere; Primitive yo-yo; Collision of two pucks

In this syllabus from Fall 2022, Dr. Kaden Paulson-Smith provides bibliographic citations and annotations for resources used in place of a traditional textbook. These resources include a combination of freely available resources; research, articles, and chapters supplied by the UWGB Libraries; and fair use of traditionally copyrighted materials. Course topics include: States; Civil Society; Social Identities and Culture; Global Inequality; Development; Democracy and Representation; Human Rights; War and Conflict; Migration; Global Health; and Climate Change.

A text organized by big ideas: truth, happiness, justice, power, freedom, democracy, and political theory today.