Sentences with phrase «grade biology class»

At a school in the Ozarks, a tenth - grade biology class used the electron microscope to examine small aquatic insects as indicators of water quality.

On November 19, 2004, the board announced that teachers would be required to read this disclaimer to 9th - grade biology classes.

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My love of both molecular biology and human physiology began in my fourth - grade science class.

In 10th grade, though, he took an Advanced Placement biology class and still remembers a pivotal moment when his teacher asked about a chemical bond in DNA.

High school students engaged in PBL in biology, chemistry, and earth science classes outscored their peers on 44 percent of the items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress science test during their twelfth - grade year (Schneider, Krajcik, Marx, & Soloway, 2002).

But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a ninth - grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every student in real time.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

«By the time they're taking the PSAT, it's much too late to determine whether they should be taking algebra in the eighth grade, biology, and other important gatekeeper classes needed for college,» he said.

-- A study of almost 2,000 students in introductory biology classes shows that women have to perform a letter grade better in order to get equal recognition from their male peers.