The Case of The Murdered Mayor – Solve a Forensic Case Using Multiple Lines of Evidence
Workshop Resources Physical Science 6-12 Middle / High School Assume the role of a crime scene investigator to solve a realistic crime scenario. Students use fingerprint, hair analysis, tire track impressions, blood typing, forensic entomology, and a police log review to identify a primary suspect from a pool of 6 alleged perpetrators. Download Presentation Download […]
Modeling DNA to Protein: Go Hands on with Protein Synthesis and Mutation
Workshop Resources Life Science 6-12 Middle / High School Teach protein synthesis using reusable magnetic manipulatives to model the flow of information through DNA translation and transcription. Visualize each step of the process and apply their models to a region on the beta-hemoglobin gene and the mutation associated with sickle-cell disease. Download Presentation Shop Biotechnology
Featured Creatures
Workshop Resources Life Science K-8 Elementary / Middle School Add excitement to your class with live organisms! Explore how organisms find food and interact. Discuss how these two hands-on activities can be applied to younger students: How creatures find food, and to older students: Social behavior and inter-species interactions. Download Presentation Download Handout Shop Living […]
Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration: Teaching Common Biology Concepts with Alginate Beads
Workshop Resources Life Science 9-12 High School Participants will make and use alginate beads containing algae and alginate beads containing yeast. They will learn how the beads can be used to model the processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration. Download Presentation Shop Carolina Science Kits
Earth and Space Science: Using Models to Teach Climate Change and the Big Bang Theory
Workshop Resources Earth and Space Science 9-12 High School Participants will examine how models can be used to drive understanding of complex concepts. Tree ring data will be used as an example of a line of evidence to support climate models and a balloon model will be used to support universe expansion. Download Presentation Download […]
Journey Through the Heart
Workshop Resources Life Science 6-12 Middle / High School Take a tour through the mammalian heart and trace the path of a blood cell on its journey to oxygenation. Participants take blood pressure readings. Then dissect a preserved sheep heart to model blood flow and connect BP to heart anatomy. Don’t skip a beat – […]
Next Generation Dissection: Form, Function, and Frogs!
Workshop Resources Life Science 6-12 Middle / High School With the transition to 3-dimensional learning and NGSS,is there still a place for dissections in the classroom? The answer is yes! As you dissect a frog,we will demonstrate how to integrate the 3 dimensions of learning while highlighting adaptations and relationships between structure and function. Download Presentation Shop […]
Collecting and Analyzing Fingerprints
Teach forensic science with hands-on fingerprint analysis. Explore techniques, classroom tips, and real-world applications to engage your students in STEM.
Writing for Assessments
As students journey through school, they will be tasked with responding to a variety of written assessments. These assessments include homework problems, lab reports, argumentative essays, and open-ended or free-response test questions. Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information is a scientific and engineering practice as outlined by the NGSS and the National Research Council (NRC). Additionally, […]
What Goes On Inside a Spectrophotometer?
A spectrophotometer is an analytical instrument used to measure the amount of light absorbed (or transmitted) as it passes through a sample, such as a solution containing food dye. Spectrophotometers work on a few basic principles: The intensity of color is a measure of the amount of dissolved material in solution. For instance, imagine 2 solutions […]