Writing for Assessments
As students journey through school, they will be tasked with responding to a variety of written assessments. These assessments include homework problems, lab reports, argumentative essays, and...
View ArticleCollecting and Analyzing Fingerprints
Lab Skills: Collecting and Analyzing Fingerprints View All Lab Skills Collecting and Analyzing Fingerprints Fingerprinting is an essential skill for crime scene investigators, law enforcement, and CTE...
View ArticleNext Generation Dissection: Form, Function, and Frogs!
Workshop Resources Life Science 6-12 Middle / High School With the transition to 3-dimensional learning and NGSS,is there still a place for dissections in the classroom? The answer is yes! As you...
View ArticleJourney 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...
View ArticleEarth and Space Science: Using Models to Teach Climate Change and the Big...
Workshop Resources Earth and Space Science 9-12 High School Participants will examine how models can be used to drive understanding of complex concepts. Tree ring data will be used as an example of a...
View ArticlePhotosynthesis and Cellular Respiration: Teaching Common Biology Concepts...
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...
View ArticleFeatured Creatures
Workshop Resources Life Science K-8 Elementary / Middle School Add excitement to your class with live organisms! Explore how organisms find food and interact. Discuss how these two hands-on activities...
View ArticleModeling 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....
View ArticleThe Case of The Murdered Mayor – Solve a Forensic Case Using Multiple Lines...
Workshop Resources Physical Science 6-12 Middle / High School Assume the role of a crime scene investigator to solve a realistic crime scenario. Students use fingerprint, hair analysis, tire track...
View ArticleLeave Your Print: Basic Fingerprinting
In Booth Demo Life Science 6-12 Middle / High School Imprint your science expertise on the topic of dactyloscopy, the study of fingerprints. Fingerprints are completely unique, and no two people have...
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