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Digesting Complex Carbohydrates: Using yeast as a model system for human digestion
Journal Article |
A fermentation lab focuses on the energy of the digestive system and engages students in the topics of metabolism, enzymology, bioengineering, and genetics. The authors describe how Beano can be used in the lab to show…
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Little Shrimp, Big Results: A Model of an Integrative, Cross-Curricular Activity
Journal Article |
This integrative, cross-curricular lab engages middle school biology students in an exercise involving ecology, arthropod biology, and mathematics. Students research the anatomy and behavioral patterns of a species of…
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Cross-Disciplinary Writing: Scientific Argumentation, the Common Core, and the ADI Model
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Discuss and evaluate argument-related products that are critical elements of science content.
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Incorporating Models Into Science Teaching to Meet the Next Generation Science Standards
Journal Article |
Discover what the NGSS has to say about the proper use of models in the middle school classroom.
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Global Warming: It's Not Cool! A model for creating Multisensory Instructional Packages
Journal Article |
The author designed this Multisensory Instructional Package (MIP) to develop environmental awareness in a variety of interesting ways. All the resources in the MIP focus on the same objectives, but each resource allows…
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The BSCS 5E Instructional Model: Creating Teachable Moments (e-book)
eBook |
With this book, you can stop wishing you could engage your students more fully and start engaging. Magic moments no longer have to be random. The BSCS 5E Instructional Model can help you create more teachable moments in…