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Global Warming--Points of view
High schoolers are introduced to global warming through analysis of political/editorial cartoons dealing with the subject. They discuss the cartoon and what the feel it means and then discuss the mechanics of and the concerns about...
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Marine Communities
Students view a video and then complete lab exercises to help them explain marine communities and animals in them.
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RFLP Paternity Testing: A Simulation
Learners use simulated autorads to discover the principle utilized to determine paternity.
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Ourselves
Students use a website to name and compare external body parts of humans and other animals.
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Making Sense of Things: The Human Body and Senses
Students conduct an experiment to evaluate the accuracy of their senses.
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Project SETI.
Tenth graders study how to search for life in outer space and make use of the 40-foot radio telescope at Greenbank, West Virginia. Request that the telescope be pointed at a particular location and time and receive data back from it...
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Consider the Issues
Students develop and express opinions on personal and societal issues in biology through journal entries (written and other forms), oral position statements and group discussions.