Students may recognize the importance of their senses, but they don't often focus on them individually. Students will experiment with sounds made by leaves, feeling different textures, observing different colors, and much more.
Students will use knowledge of adaptations to compare the structures and functions of plants. These likenesses are passed down between parent plants and their offspring
Students learn how nanoparticles can be creatively used for medical diagnostic purposes. They learn about buckminsterfullerenes, more commonly known as buckyballs, and about the potential for these complex carbon molecules to deliver drugs and other treatments into the human body. They brainstorm methods to track buckyballs in the body, then build a buckyball from pipe cleaners with a fluorescent tag to model how nanoparticles might be labeled and detected for use in a living organism. As an extension, students research and select appropriate radioisotopes for different medical applications.
In this lesson students will explore the physical characteristics of insects and how they camouflage themselves to avoid being eaten by predators.
In this lesson, students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life and imagining what types of animals might live in and around the area.
The students will explore the outdoor classroom in pairs looking for evidence of animal life cycles and imagining what types of animals might live in, and survive in, the outdoor classroom area.
Biology is designed for multi-semester biology courses for science majors. It is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand. To meet the needs of today’s instructors and students, some content has been strategically condensed while maintaining the overall scope and coverage of traditional texts for this course. Instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand—and apply—key concepts.
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Students will compare different plant traits and determine how each structure helps that species of plant grow and reproduce in the schoolyard habitat. After which, students can observe each plant for acquired traits.