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high school biology students» engagement with more and less epistemologically considerate texts.
High school biology students are taught Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance.
During the school year 1963 — 1964 some 250,000 copies of the three texts were sold, a number sufficient to reach 12 percent of
the high school biology students in the U.S.. All three have been offered to and accepted by state adoption boards in Georgia and Florida.
Inside the StarCAVE at the University of California, San Diego,
high school biology students find themselves engulfed in virtual 3 - D renderings of green fluorescent proteins and other structures derived from the university's Protein Data Bank.
Project 2061 receives funding to develop a multimedia curriculum unit to help
high school biology students understand complex ideas about energy.
Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for
high school biology students.
It's
a high school biology student's dream come true: all the educational perks of frog dissection without having to lift a scalpel.
Not exact matches
Think
high schoolers dissecting 3 - D holographic frogs in
biology class, or med
students watching a virtual open - heart surgery.
Archaeopteryx was a fossil hoax which was at one time believed to support evolutionary theory and is still in current published
biology texts for
high school students.
My senior year in
high school I, the pre-premed
student, was dutifully enrolled in
biology.
Waubonsie Valley
High School students taking Advanced Placement environmental science and biology got their hands dirty and their feet wet in a prairie planting project just outside the s
School students taking Advanced Placement environmental science and
biology got their hands dirty and their feet wet in a prairie planting project just outside the
schoolschool.
The new unit will help develop
students» understanding of energy transfer and conservation in both living and non-living systems so that they can explain fundamental processes in living organisms, a major topic in most
high school biology courses.
When I was a
high school student in my home country of Greece, good
students were expected to become doctors, and my
biology teacher insisted that I apply to medical
school.
Later, as a
high school student, he developed a special fondness for
biology.
By contrast, Donovan said, the Toward
High School Biology unit incorporates chemistry lessons that inform her
students» understanding of
biology.
As summer draws to a close, participating middle
school students will begin tackling chemistry concepts to prepare them for the rigor of
high school biology courses.
To date, he has mentored more than 40
high school and undergraduate
students, mainly through the annual iGEM competition in which
students try their hands at synthetic
biology under the supervision of senior researchers.
These programs include workshops on molecular
biology techniques directed toward
high school teachers, distributable kits that include instructions and equipment to carry out various experiments, and a weekly program to bring
high school students to AMBL to do hands - on PCR and DNA sequencing.
As a child, Zhang moved with his family from China to Des Moines, where he worked in a gene therapy lab as a
high school student; the experience taught him to think about
biology from an engineering point of view.
As the fall semester begins at U.S.
high schools and universities, the rites of introductory
biology begin anew: Tens of thousands of
students are listening to lectures on photosynthesis, memorizing parts of the cell, and learning the terms of taxonomy.
A motivated
high school student with access to a nearby
biology lab can assemble a reference - quality genome of an actual species, like a butterfly, for the cost of a science fair project.»
She spends some of her time teaching marine
biology to
high school students at UCSC's Long Marine Lab, and she says that before Blackfish came out, «the kids were giddy to meet our dolphins.
In addition, a portion of the project will enable Subramanian to reach out to
high school biology teachers and their
students to spark interest in science and technology.
The group is developing a science curriculum for use in Malagasy
high schools in which
students learn about
biology by exploring the rich environment right outside their
school houses.
But in the 1980s, as a
student at Vestavia Hills
High School in Birmingham, Ala., he learned about
biology and chemistry and switched his allegiance to more Earth - based sciences.
And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle -
school students for
high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.
Instructed three
high school students in the lab on molecular
biology techniques and thin layer chromatography.
This SLP trains undergraduate
students enrolled in a non-science majors» introductory
biology course in the SLP curriculum and takes them to middle and
high school classrooms to lead the younger
students through the curriculum.
Dr. Ganz was active in academic outreach throughout her time at Cornell, mentoring undergraduate
students, co-teaching a weekly computer science course to a local
high school chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Jr., as well as a five - week mini-course on experiments in chemistry and
biology to local elementary
school students.
On 16th November,
students from Liberton
High School in Edinburgh will take part in a day of talks, quizzes and discussions on stem cell
biology.
Michele Naber, who teaches regular and AP
biology at Mission Viejo
High School, in Mission Viejo, California, assigns MIT's practice problems to her
students as in - class assignments and on tests.
Rosemary Cenci, a teacher at Schuylerville Junior - Senior
High School, in Schuylerville, New York, assigns her AP
biology students practice problems from the MIT site to complete as homework.
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).
Many of the
students in Rebekka L. Stone's
biology classes hope to become the first in their families to graduate from
high school.
Rebekka Stone, a tenth - grade
biology teacher in Homestead, Florida, says she uses Highlights for
High School to increase her
students» science comprehension and to introduce them to the idea of
higher learning.
High school students across Maryland work with scientists on board doing lab work in
biology, chemistry, and forensic science.
An industrious
high school science teacher put a lot of thought into this version for his
biology students!
For instance,
high -
school biology students may learn more genetics than they used to.
In Belmont, California,
high school biology teacher Rebecca Girard has been using mixed reality computers from zSpace — which come with special glasses that allow cells and organs to «pop out» of the flat screen in 3D — to help her
students gain a better grasp on how the heart works.
At Montpelier
High School,
biology students grow the salad greens that are then consumed in cafeterias throughout the entire district.
Montpelier
High School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics
School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the
school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics
school, from
students studying nutrient cycles in
biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics class.
Tracy Sheehan, who teaches
biology and bioethics both for VHS and at Westborough
High School, in Westborough, Massachusetts, says she hears from
students online who would probably remain silent in class, especially when teaching bioethics.
Spurred by a team of three
biology, math, and humanities teachers at
High Tech
High, a public charter
school in San Diego, these diverse
students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.
Education Review reported that in his PhD thesis for the University of Sydney, Simon Crook — demonstrated that teaching with laptops helped NSW Year 12
students achieve better results in
Higher School Certificate
biology, chemistry and physics.
High school student Pierre combined
biology, math, economics, and more to transform his campus greenhouse into a sustainable aquaponic system that provides fresh vegetables for the cafeteria.
Golden's proven integrated solution targets middle and
high school students with courses in English / language arts aligned with the Common Core State Standards and
biology courses that align with the Next Generation Science Standards.
In Dr. Sherri Hanna's
biology class,
high school students try to uncover if the fish they're served at local sushi restaurants is really the species the restaurants claim it is.
Prior to this position, Dat taught
biology and environmental science for middle and
high school students.
«From the
student town hall meetings came a review of the curriculum back at the district level and with the
high schools and actual changes as to how [
biology] is being implemented,» said Meloche, who noted that he may not have been able to understand the problem as well without talking to
students.
Participating teachers and
students were enrolled in math and English language arts (ELA) in grades 4 through 8, algebra I at the
high school level,
biology (or its equivalent) at the
high school level, and English in grade 9.