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Students will use weight potometry to estimate the basal rate of transpiration for bean plants. For the exercise, they will estimate the soil salinity...
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Metabolism and Oxygen Consumption
In this unit, students first conduct an experiment to determine if there is a relationship between environmental temperature and rate of metabolism in...
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In this unit, students compare allocation strategies among plant species and within a species under different abiotic conditions. Students will quanti...
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In this unit, students explore how biotic and abiotic factors affect population growth. They explore the effects of competition on growth of different...
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Measuring Biological Diversity
Biological diversity is a hallmark of life on Earth. In this unit, students estimate biological diversity in two different aquatic ecosystems. They co...
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Designing Scientific Experiments
In this unit, students learn about designing sound, testable hypotheses and experiments. A testable hypotheses is one that is stated in a way that mak...
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In a typical Mendelian genetics lab, students cross flies or other organisms of known genotypes, score phenotypes of the offspring, and determine if t...
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In this unit, students will isolate DNA suitable for sequencing and other analyses. Students use bioinformatics software to find differences between n...
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Enzymes are specified proteins that catalyze chemical reactions in biological systems without being permanently changed or used up. This unit was deve...
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This unit focuses on properties and functions of enzymes. Students will discover for themselves how enzyme concentration, environmental conditions, an...
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The process of photosynthesis is the key to life on Earth. In this unit, students will learn to make an enriched chloroplast preparation from spinach ...
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In this unit, students look at the signal transduction pathways that let cells sense and respond to their external and internal environments. The mod...
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In this unit, students explore hormonal regulation of insect development. Students look at fruit flies—Drosophila melanogaster—in various stages ...
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In this unit, students learn about the neuromuscular system by dissecting the sciatic nerve and gastrocnemius muscle from the leg of a frog and connec...
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A Brief Introduction to Inquiry
When the term inquiry comes up in conversations about science curriculum reform and improvement, it usually is shorthand for inquiry-based learning an...