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Struture and Function in Living Systems
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Exploratorium Microscopic Imaging Station
In this online activity, students search the Web in order to learn about human body cells. After collecting their research, they make an analogy between the structure of a human liver cell and a real city. Included are activity pages, team pages, teacher pages, and a list of electronic resources that students will need to complete the activity. ~^ In this online activity, students search the Web in ...
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The Human Body Adventure is a virtual dissection intended for a middle school-aged audience. From skin to skeleton, it allows students to concentrate on key life science concepts. Awesome Library organizes 15,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources, including the top 5 percent for teachers, students, parents, and librarians. It includes a search engine.
hol_i04_siddall.pdfIn this Q&A interview, available both online and as a printable PDF, Mark Siddall talks about his work as an invertebrate systematist and how marine organisms eat. He answers more than 15 questions, including:Why are the feeding habits of marine organisms interesting to study?How do marine animals feed on stuff suspended in the water?How do different ocean habitats link to different feeding behaviors?What ...
In this weeklong unit, students research how flora and fauna have adapted to thrive in Antarctica, and use their knowledge to create imaginary polar organisms. Throughout the unit, students collect their findings in a portfolio. The comprehensive curriculum materials contain:Teacher tools, which include individually downloadable readings, detailed daily breakdowns of tasks, teacher strategies for ...
If you can tear your eyes away from the mesmerizing graphics on the main page, you'll find a very detailed and comprehensive cell biology tutorial created by graphic artist/biologist John Kyrk. Kyrk's animations demonstrate all major aspects of cell biology: amino acid structure, DNA replication, transcription and translation, cellular cycles (Krebs, glycolysis, mitosis), photosynthesis, ...
The Cells Alive Web site, offered by Quill Graphics, contains several activities to help students understand the basics of cellular biology. The animal cell cycle and cell mitosis animations are especially excellent visual learning tools, clearly showing what takes place during these events and giving well-written descriptions of each stage. The site also has three interactive quizzes on cell structure, ...
Life systems, cells, tissues, organs and systems, grade 8,lesson plans, resources, units, experiments on such things as microscopes, nucleus, cells, biology, animals cells, plant cells, vacuole, cell theory
An online, interactive, multimedia math investigation in which students use rational functions to explore the possible reasons behind the observation that northwestern crows consistently drop a type of mollusk called a whelk from a height of 5 meters.
DNA Patents Create Monopolies on Living Organisms from Council for Responsible Genetics
From Cells to Systems is a module that seeks to provide bioengineering undergraduate and graduate students with understanding for how system-level properties may emerge from the ensemble behavior of groups of cells. It is intended to be situated in a neural systems physiology course where students learn about the structure and function of the retina. The module involves a sequence of computer laboratory ...
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