Hands-on Activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students by Drs. Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty, University of Pennsylvania The expression "hands-on, minds-on" summarizes the philosophy we have incorporated in these activities - namely, that students will learn best if they are actively engaged and if their activities are closely linked to understanding important biological concepts. Many of our activities are explicitly aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, as indicated by (NGSS) in the descriptions below and the links to the right. To accommodate limited budgets, most of our activities can be carried out with minimum equipment and expense for supplies. Additional resources for teaching biology are available at More Minds on Activities for Teaching Biology. Read More Intro and Biological Molecules Is Yeast Alive? Students evaluate whether the little brown grains of yeast obtained from the grocery store are alive by testing for metabolism and growth. Enzymes Help Us Digest Food(revised, July, 2016) Who Took Jerell's iPod?
Online Mind Mapping and Brainstorming - MindMeister Wikis in Education: Teaching Students to Share Knowledge Wikis are gaining popularity in an educational setting as a way to give students a hands-on learning tool. Providers see the demand and are creating wiki tools to help teachers make wider user of wikis in the classroom. Teaching and learning have always had a collaborative element, but wiki technology has in recent years made collaboration central to the method of many educators. Since they can be edited by anyone with access to them, education wikis are ever-changing and evolving documents that ideally represent the wisdom of the student crowd. Teachers are constantly finding new and creative ways to use wikis. The possibilities for wikis in the classroom, in other words, are as limitless and never-ending as wikis themselves. Scientific Method Back in 1999, wiki expert and consultant Stewart Mader, who publishes Grow Your Wiki, wanted to start a Web site to help students at the University of Connecticut understand chemical applications related to spectroscopy. The Education Market
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The Ajanta Caves – Ancient Temples Carved from Rock Two thousand two hundred years ago work began on an extensive series of cave monuments in Maharashtra, India. Over a period of hundreds of years, thirty one monuments were hewn piece by piece from the rock face. Then, some speculate around the year 1000AD, they fell in to disuse. Dense jungle grew around, hiding the caves away from human eyes. They Ajanta caves lay undisturbed for hundreds of years. One can only imagine what went through Smith's head when he made his find. The nearest human habitation is Ajinṭhā, a tiny village a few miles away from the caves. The first caves were hewn from the bare rock at the time of The Sātavāhana Empire which started around 230BC. Although there is widespread debate about the time at which the second period of building took place most now agree that it was probably during the reign of Harishena, from 460AD and over a period of around twenty years. There are paintings everywhere – literally. They were created using an ancient method.
Cell Phones in Education Part 4: Learning on Location Disclaimer: While this post presumes the use of a smart phone, and while it is true that not all students own a smart phone, with the current shift toward smart phones, soon, smart phones will be as prevalent as cell phones are today. When I reflect on what is traditionally thought of as a field trip in a typical K-12 school setting, what often comes to mind is a visit to a location that may have some direct or indirect connection to the unit of study being taught. The vision of students visiting different areas or exhibits with “experts” telling students why this or that is significant dances in my head. Students may walk around with paper and a pencil answering questions based on what they see or what they are told. To me this type of learning seems to be inauthentic as this way of organizing field trips seems artificial and top directed. This is where the mobile phone comes into play. What happens to students who don’t have these fancy phones? Like this: Like Loading...
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Edheads - Activate Your Mind! Amazing Metropolis Discovered in Africa is 200,000 years old! By Dan Eden for viewzone. They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere -- thousands -- no, hundreds of thousands of them! Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150 miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. The image [top of page] is a close-up view of just a few hundred meters of the landscape taken from google-earth. This changed when researcher and author, Michael Tellinger, teamed up with Johan Heine, a local fireman and pilot who had been looking at these ruins from his years flying over the region. "When Johan first introduced me to the ancient stone ruins of southern Africa, I had no idea of the incredible discoveries we would make in the year or two that followed. Where it was found The area is significant for one striking thing -- gold. The individual ruins [see below] mostly consist of stone circles.
Tricks (ABC Science) Tricks Blow underwater bubble rings Everybody loves bubbles and we're all mystified by the swirls of a vortex. Combine the two and you've got yourself the coolest trick under the sea. Banana 'candle' trick This classic prank will appeal to anyone with a penchant for plantains but don't be fooled! Explore more Tricks Dry footprints on wet sand Why do your footprints look dry when you step on wet sand? Salt experiment How and why does water mix in our oceans? Cloud in a bottle Pump a soft drink bottle full of air, pop the top and bam! Doppler effect Swing a ringing phone inside a long sturdy sock and you will hear the strangely familiar Doppler effect. Swipe card experiment Sprinkle some iron filings on an old swipe card and pretty magnetic patterns appear right before your eyes. Unmixing experiment Can you unmix a mixed-up liquid? Coin experiment Master this impossible looking trick and you'll feel like a ninja Jedi master of the ever-expanding universe... or your money back! Fountain experiment
Global Warming April 5 , 2004 Could global warming turn Earth's climate upside down? Thunderous tornadoes demolish Los Angeles. Panicked? Could global warming (an average increase in Earth’s temperature) really turn Earth’s climate (weather conditions of an area) upside down as it did in The Day After Tomorrow? On the silver screen and in real life, global warming is the villain. The trouble starts when unusually large amounts of greenhouse gases build up in the atmosphere. In The Day After Tomorrow, rising global temperatures lead to a big freeze. The North Atlantic Ocean would be a lot colder if it weren’t for the great ocean conveyor belt, an ocean-current system that slowly wends its way around the globe. Scientists fear global warming could weaken or shut down the ocean’s conveyor. If the great conveyor were to shut down, scientists say the temperature drop could create abrupt climate change. Research shows abrupt climate changes in the distant past. The upshot?