Variation and Selection: Human Food Crop Selection Creates an Engaging Storyline Variation in traits among individuals in a population is such an…
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Innovation is tough in any classroom. However, that’s no reason not to do it! Because high school curricula are typically content-driven, students…
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Diffusion—Molecules on the Move
Introduction Traditionally, when students perform the diffusion and osmosis experiment using potato slices, they are given a step-by-step procedure that leads to…
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Advanced Placement (AP) courses have been offered in high schools across the nation since 1965. The push for students to take these…
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Photosynthesis Modeling with Pop Beads
While studying photosynthesis, students can have difficulty understanding how the carbon in CO2 becomes the carbon in glucose (6H2O + 6CO2?C6H12O6 + 6O2). To…
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It’s not your parents’ biology High school biology can no longer consist merely of traditional lecturing, dissecting frogs, viewing prepared slides, or…
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This author provides an excellent student lab-report format, explains how it adapts to different science disciplines, and suggests simple labs to familiarize students with it.
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Invasion! Invasive Species Activity
Introduced species (also known as alien, nonnative, nonindigenous, or exotic species) are organisms that have been either accidentally or intentionally brought into…
For chemistry teacher Siobhan Julian, teaching the history of atomic theory by lecture “was dry and tedious and boring for everyone involved.†Then she took a fresh approach—one that focuses on doing science to learn science history.
Imagine a world without enzymes. Bread wouldn’t rise. Seeds wouldn’t sprout. Your tasty lunch wouldn’t digest; it would sit in your stomach…
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