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Students create HyperCard-based media in Biology. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students conduct an 8 hour Annual Summit Meeting on the Cultural and Biological Diversity of a Latin American Country. They construct a Rainforest, coffee and banana plantations, and a street scene of a typical large city. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Student discuss the applications of Bioinformatics tools to their choices of a real life problem solving scenario. They draw conclusions about the methods and tools that a professional would utilize to solve the problem they have identfied. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze Gregor Mendel's discovery of a process of biological evolution. They also explore how recessive and dominant traits are passed from one generation of living organisms to the next. This lesson involves environment diversity and heredity. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students witness various stages of mitosis through preparing onion root tip slides. With teacher guidance, they learn a great deal through the hands-on process of preparing the slides themselves. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students begin by using clay to model fertilization and early development of sea urchins and chordates. They move on to mixing live sea urchin sperm and ova together to observe, diagram and record events occurring in fertilization and development over a 1-2 day period. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students compare mitosis and meiosis with regard to chromosome number in parent cells versus daughter cells, types of cells produced, total number of cells produced, and the number of divisions. In groups, identify and differentiate the major characteristics of vertebrate development and explain the relationships among the number of eggs, methods of fertilization, and rates of embryonic development as related to species survival. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students gather (research) information on neuron structure and action potential. Students are guided to make inferences about the synapse and its relationship to neurotransmitter release and action. They are also guided to make inferences about how neurotransmitters and drugs affect synapses and how these actions may be related to diseases of the nervous system and ultimately behavior. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students in an upper level Biology class focus upon the problem of aggression by conducting research and reviewing the Scientific Method. They apply it to the real life problem by making a hypothesis and creating some possible solutions. Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students recognize the role of climate in determining the nature of a biological community. They identify the major terrestrial biomes on Earth, as well as the major terrestrial biomes in Texas. In addition, they compare and contrast the major freshwater and marine habitats. Full Review »
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