Take the Stress and Rush Out of Ordering Your A&P Lab Materials
Last-minute ordering stress is a common problem for many lab managers and anatomy and physiology instructors. For one reason or another, you’ve put off placing an order for supplies or equipment, and the next semester or the end of your school’s fiscal year is looming large. We know how much you dread that last-minute scramble […]
Carolina’s Young Innovators Program Inspires Students
Carolina helps students envision themselves as STEM innovators through free stories about regular students. The inspiring students featured in Carolina’s Young Innovators program will surprise and captivate students. They demonstrate the amazing achievements that happen when students take action to answer a question or solve a problem in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). By […]
Dissection Artifacts for Three-Dimensional Instruction
By using models, diagrams, group discussions, peer review, labeling exercises, etc., we can create student portfolios that detail the growth of each student throughout a unit of instruction. Artifact is an exciting and a thought-provoking word. It brings to mind the idea of archaeologists on digs in far-off lands–scientists discovering exotic and rare finds that […]
Autumn Leaves Craft Project
This activity takes a look at autumn leaves as objects of aesthetic beauty and scientific interest. For this activity, each of your students uses colorful autumn leaves they have collected to create a decorative arrangement on a sheet of waxed paper. You then cover each arrangement with another sheet of waxed paper and seal the […]
Holiday Demonstrations and Activities
As the holidays arrive, students tend to become distracted. Performing demonstrations and doing fun class activities can help keep their minds focused on important science concepts. You can create a memorable learning experience out of this festive holiday with a discussion of chemistry topics such as redox reactions, indicators, polymers, properties of matter, and phase […]
The Basics of Graphs and Charts
Help your students brush up on their graphing skills with this quick review. Â Graphs and charts communicate information visually. They can show patterns, help scientists identify correlations, and get the point of the experiment across quickly. Typically, the independent variable is plotted on the x-axis The dependent variable is plotted on the y-axis. The […]
Investigating Phenomena: How Do Plants Grow?
Carolina Phenomenon Phenomena-driven science! Phenomena are observable, naturally occurring events that are everywhere and spark student questions and investigations. Ask students to observe the DCI-linked phenomenon in the video and complete the attached student sheet prior to remote learning discussions. Â Â Observations: Carefully watch the plant growth video that takes place over 90 hours. […]
Which Electrophoresis Kit Is Right for You?
Use this companion guide to compare kit characteristics so you can prepare yourself and your lab accordingly.
Electrophoresis of DNA is a fundamental technique in biotechnology that covers a variety of subject material on the structure and function of DNA. Carolina makes the study of electrophoresis attainable for any classroom by offering a number of kits that include valuable teacher resources.
Colorful Dyes from the Natural World
The chemistry behind environmental dyes In the springtime, it’s common to see articles about how to dye eggs with natural dyes, but eggs aren’t the only things that can be dyed. Since ancient times, humans have used materials from their environments to color their world. Chemistry of cloth dyeing The cuticle of eggs, which is […]
Cheese Making
An Interdisciplinary Science Exploration Evidence suggests that people have been making cheese for at least several thousand years. In the 1970s, an archeologist named Peter Bogucki excavated a site in Poland and found fragments of pottery left by people who had lived there approximately 7,000 years earlier. The fragments he found, like some pottery found […]