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This lesson asks students to develop strategies for matching genetic characteristics with environmental conditions to optimize the growth of the Pacif...
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This lesson asks students to develop a synthetic genetic code to minimize the change in amino acid sequence in a protein due to mutations, within give...
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This lesson asks students to consider the aspects of cell cycle regulation and feedback as they propose a mechanism to stop cancerous cell division wi...
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This lesson asks students to explore the positive and negative factors affecting ecosystems and their impact on either an endangered species or an inv...
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This chapter contains five engineering case studies. Each one presents an engaging story of how engineering was used to find a solution to a real-worl...
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Swing Set Makeover, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book sample chapter)
What if you could challenge your third graders to design a swing set that’s safe but still lots of fun? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curric...
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Technological Advances in Automobiles
In this lesson, students are introduced to and experiment with mousetrap cars and the science and industry of crash testing cars with a focus on safet...
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In this lesson, students use the law of conservation of momentum and energy to investigate the forces and motions involved in three scenarios—a car ...
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In this lesson, students investigate the history of safety features in cars and apply this understanding to a question that has existed since the orig...
NSTA Press Book
Car Crashes, Grade 12: STEM Road Map for High School
What if you could challenge your 12th graders to understand car crashes in the context of physical forces, manufacturing challenges, government safety...
eBook
Car Crashes, Grade 12: STEM Road Map for High School (e-book)
What if you could challenge your 12th graders to understand car crashes in the context of physical forces, manufacturing challenges, government safety...
NSTA Press Book
Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students With Evidence From the Living World
By making room for this book in your curriculum, you’ll have a fresh way to motivate your students to look at the living world and ask not only “W...
By Matthew Kloser, Sophia Grathwol
NSTA Press Book
Engineering in the Life Sciences, 9–12
When the authors of this book took part in Project INFUSE, the National Science Foundation–funded teacher development program, they noticed somethin...
By Rodney L. Custer, Jenny L. Daugherty, Julia M. Ross, Katheryn B. Kennedy, Cory Culbertson
eBook
Reading Nature: Engaging Biology Students With Evidence From the Living World (e-book)
By making room for this book in your curriculum, you’ll have a fresh way to motivate your students to look at the living world and ask not only “W...
eBook
Engineering in the Life Sciences, 9–12 (e-book)
When the authors of this book took part in Project INFUSE, the National Science Foundation–funded teacher development program, they noticed somethin...