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Favorite Demonstration: The Cell Organelle Pageant
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The Cell Organelle Pageant is an activity to reinforce student’s understanding of the structure and function of eukaryotic cell organelles. This activity should follow readings and a lecture presentation on cell types…
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Science Sampler: Analogy of the cell project
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In this inquiry-based science project, students compare the makeup of a cell to an everyday working unit or system and create a three-dimensional object that represents their analogy. In addition, students select five…
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Tried and True: Cell organelle employment advertisements
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Are you looking for a creative way to teach the functions of cell organelles? If you answered yes, then organelle employment advertisements are just what you need. During this project, students must create an employment…
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Cell Modeling Students Can Really Get Into
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Use a real-world scenario to engage in the scientific practice of collecting, analyzing, graphing, and interpreting data.
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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones
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This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information.
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There’s No Such Thing as a One-Celled Plant or Animal
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Early biologists classified living organisms based on what they knew about life: All living things were either animals or plants. The fossil record as late as the 18th and 19th centuries seemed consistent with this two-…
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Sickle Cell Disease: Relating Community Health and Heredity
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Explore cell form and function and genetic inheritance during a study of sickle cell disease.
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Student Impressions of Academic Cell Phone Use in the Classroom
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The study described in this article was designed to assess the perspective of students regarding the use of cell phones as academic tools in the classroom.