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The Three Doors of Serendip: Broader Understanding


The Three Doors of Serendip:
Broader Understanding

 

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The Three Doors of Serendip: "Experimental Understanding"


The Three Doors of Serendip:
and Experimental Understanding

 

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Our Papermaking Activity

Submitted by Barbara Kauffman on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 9:21pm

Our Papermaking Activity

Submitted by Barbara Kauffman on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 3:01pm.

I believe that Wil's Papermaking Activity would fit in very well with my elementary school students. Actually, teachers could create a unit that incorporates several subjects (such as science, reading, writing, social studies, and math) so that we'd be teaching across the curriculum.

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Science Inquiry In The PreK Classroom

Submitted by Teresa Albers on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 2:47pm

DEVELOPING THE PROCESS OF SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY

for the PRE-K CLASSROOM

 

What is scientific inquiry?

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Finally -- a lab activity for my chem class

Submitted by bronstein on Wed, 07/30/2008 - 2:05pm

After doing the DNA extraction activity (which I initially thought would be totally useless to me), I found enough in it to make it very useful as a lab during the chapter on mixtures and solutions.  I can use it to illustrate "like dissolves like", polarity, ion attraction and repulsion, the terms hydrophilic and hydrophobic, and model building.

Here's the lab:

Making Paper: A Hook for Plant related Topics?

 

 

What is paper made of?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let's Make Paper!

 

Paper Making;

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Dna, Heredity and Mutation

Submitted by Babtunde A Oronti on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 9:42am

TOPIC: DNA, INHERITABLE CHARACTERS AND MUTATION

OBJECTIVES:

Physiology Exercises

Physiology is often presented as if 'everything' is already known about the subject. Students then feel that they just have to 'know' the parts and their interactions to understand physiology. Is there still room for inquiry in physiology?

 

What is physiology?

 

Why study it?

 

Some interesting hands-on activities by Ingrid Waldron

Regulation of Human Heart Rate

baroreflex

dive reflex

Breathing and Holding Your Breadth

American Physiological Society: K-12 education resources

The Three Doors of Serendip: Experimental Understanding


The Three Doors of Serendip:

Experimental Understanding

Door images from Woodstone

The Three Doors of Serendip: Hands on Understanding


The Three Doors of Serendip:
Hands on Understanding

 

Door images from Woodstone

 

Feeling playful? And never heard of the "Monty Hall Dilemma" or the "Let's Make a Deal Game" or the "Three Door Problem"? Or at least never played them or thought about them much? Good, then let's play.

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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

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