CSO Tips for Teachers- Lab Setup
Do you know the benefits of using Carolina Kits 3D labs on CSO? Set yourself up for success with these tips. Use CSO digital resources to ensure a smooth lab setup Are your students having difficulties setting up lab activities in the classroom or at home? Helpful digital resources are located on CSO and included […]
Digestive System
Digestive System Introduce Digestive System Hungry? Is your stomach making noises? Did you catch a whiff of fresh cut fruit, and now your mouth is watering? Then your digestive system is primed and ready to go to work breaking down food into smaller molecules so nutrients can be easily absorbed. Here’s some food for thought: […]
What Genomics Says about Being Human
The revolution in DNA sequencing has led to an explosion in genomics, adding remarkable depth to understanding of what it means to be human. Nucleotide sequences In the last decade, the cost of determining the nucleotide sequence of chromosomes has decreased by at least a thousandfold to about $1 per megabase (million base pairs). This […]
Nervous System
Nervous System Introduce Nervous System The nervous system is complex and involves unfamiliar vocabulary, from the parts of the brain to the cranial nerves. The nervous system is made up of two subsystems: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord, and it’s in […]
Molarity, Molality, or Normality? (A Quick Review)
Looking for a way to reinforce your students’ understanding of these concepts? Try this quick review. Molarity and Molality Molarity (M) is defined as the number of moles of solute per liter of solution.molarity = moles of solute/liters of solution Molality (m) is defined as the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent.molality […]
Check Them Out: A&P Materials Checklists
As an anatomy and physiology (A&P) teacher, you have to make decisions about scheduling, content, and lab activities–all vying for your time and money, which are often in short supply. Time spent online or leafing through a catalog to identify purchase and shipping options is not time well spent for you. So it’s imperative that […]
Gathering, Visualizing, and Interpreting Data
“Data, data, data. I can’t make bricks without clay!” Sherlock Holmes This quote from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes is a perfect analogy for teaching your students about working with data. Data are the raw materials from which scientists draw conclusions and develop theories. Data collection and analysis is a large part of every scientist’s […]
Chemistry Laboratory Closeout
Ready for a break from the lab? Follow these steps to close up the lab so it is ready when you return. It’s time to clean up, organize, and secure the lab for summer vacation. We created a checklist of suggested tasks (see below) to help make this project less time-consuming. However, this list cannot […]
The Conical Pendulum
An Experiment in Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration The conical pendulum lab allows students to investigate the physics and mathematics of uniform circular motion. A motorized, plastic plane* is suspended from a thin string and “flies” in a circular path with a constant speed. The plane and the supporting string trace a conical pendulum. Students […]
Webinar Series: Making Sense of Three-Dimensional Science
Join us for series of webinars that will help you teach and assess new science standards. More than a decade after the release of A Framework for K-12 Science Education, there is still confusion and misunderstanding about three-dimensional learning and assessment that is the foundation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)*. The Smithsonian Science […]