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5… 4… 3… 2 … 1 … Test day! Students are counting down the days until AP® exams begin. What can you…
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Case Study: The Impact of Honeybee Populations
When preparing to teach your class about populations and the interdependence of organisms, consider incorporating the honeybee into your lesson plans. This…
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Who can be successful in STEM careers? Our new Success Stories in STEM feature introduces students to inspiring STEM role models—what led them to their professions, obstacles they overcame, and more! Download English and Spanish profile cards at two reading levels to share the stories of young women in Space careers.
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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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The Calvin cycle of photosynthesis can be difficult to teach and to learn when presented only as a relentless sequence of complex…
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Using Aquatic Plants to Demonstrate Photosynthesis
Introduction Egeria densa, also known as Elodea densa because of its previously incorrect classification in the Elodea genus, is the most popular aquatic plant used to…
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How to Make a Good Scientific Model
Are your students able to generate observations and then construct a good scientific model? After your students complete an inquiry activity, use…
Flo Gullickson, an experienced AP® Environmental Science teacher and exam reader, shares tips on how to approach free-response questions.
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Photosynthesis and Floating Leaf Disks
If you have never tried the leaf disk assay, you are missing out on one of the best photosynthesis labs available. Here’s…
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Our Most Popular Earth and Space Science Kits That Rock Students’ Lab Experiences
This might be earth-shattering news, but did you know that you can cover your earth and space science course, start to finish, with Carolina’s popular kits? Kits that will get your students hands-on experiments, model generation, and data analysis, while meeting your ESS course standards. Repeatedly chosen by thousands of teachers, these kits rock students’ lab experiences.