Get To Know Your Microscope
Get to know your microscope Microscopes give us the power to observe the world up close. By becoming familiar with their different parts and understanding how they work, you can get the most out of your microscope and the lab experience. Download PDF Activity 6. Eyepiece (Ocular Lens)-The lens you look through, often with 10x […]
How to Make Microscope Slides for Science Fair Projects
Learn how to prepare wet mount and dry mount microscope slides in your quest for science fair success.
Tardigrades: Little Water Bears
Discover the fascinating world of tardigrades—microscopic, resilient creatures that survive extreme conditions, from space to deep oceans. Learn about their biology, habitats, and unique survival mechanisms.
Characteristics and Behavior of Owls
Learn about what makes owls unique.
Fetal Pig Dissection
CAROLINA DISSECTION GUIDES Introduction Pigs are excellent and engaging specimens for studying mammalian anatomy. They exhibit hair, a muscular diaphragm, a 4-chambered heart, and mammary glands. Middle school students can use preserved pigs to begin their exploration of human body systems and structure and function. Advanced high school biology or anatomy and physiology students can […]
Using Laboratory Drawings to Enhance Student Learning
Explore how science laboratory drawings enhance student observation and understanding. Learn how simple sketches, diagrams, and 2D models help explain experiments, equipment setups, and biological specimens. Ideal for STEM educators and students.
The Life Cycle of a Chicken
Learn about the fascinating lifecycle of chickens.
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
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
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 – […]