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First grade student uses a notebook to make sense of a class model of whale blubber.
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High school students explore network covalents. Students were asked to plan, build, test and revise a model of a network covalent that would be able to hold the most force. We then tested them with a bridge breaker.
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5th Grade students use a dough scale model to explore Earth’s Place in the Universe.
Students each modeled one chromatid, with a pair modeling a chromosome. They did the process normally, and then were challenged to show what would happen with a nondisjunction in Meiosis I vs. Meiosis II, resulting in Down Syndrome.
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High school students design a fictional species, and decide on traits for their species. They showed a male and female version, coded different traits, made pedigrees to show different types of inheritance, and also showed dihybrid crosses with two different traits.
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High school students explore natural selection through a computer model. (http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/genbio/virtual_labs/BL_12/BL_12.html). Students collected data and looked for changes in allele frequencies.
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First graders observed and explored plants in the classroom and then drew a model of it to deepen their understanding of structure, function and plant parts.