Saving Salila's Turle Unit. A unit about environmental engineers and what they do. Teaches students about the Engineering Design Steps. I cross reference this unit with our Museum Magnet Exhibit Process and our FOSS Mixtures and Solutions Unit. This year one of the sixth grade exhibits was Math Fun Games. Students brainstormed, designed, tested, improved their own game and share with families and other students during an exhibit night. The Separating Mixtures lesson from Discovery Education …
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How can I make my class room more interesting, challenging and fun at the same time.I am a biology teacher and I need more resources to make the topics easy and comprehensible by students.
As part of the Siemens/Discovery Education STEM Institute (summer 2010) this Challenge-Based Learning Project was created. Objective : Students will collaborate as both a team and remotely (a team in Chicago) to research a real world problem (energy sources), conduct research, generate & defend a position, test design, and communicate their results to an authentic audience using technology tools. Question : Which form(s) of energy (coal, wind, or hydro) best serves the needs of …
URL: http://www.khanacademy.org Site Review: http://www.theweblogreview.com/review/3491/ "Sal Khan has created a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to provide free education to everybody, everywhere. The concept couldn't be simpler. The homepage consists of links to hundreds of short videos, hosted on YouTube, that are mostly mathematics- and science-related. Khan has a Masters in electrical engineering and computer science as well as a BS in math from MIT, in addition to …
All About The Human Genome Project (HGP) The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the great feats of exploration in history - an inward voyage of discovery rather than an outward exploration of the planet or the cosmos; an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes - together known as the genome - of members of our species, Homo sapiens. Completed in April 2003, the HGP gave us the ability to, for the first time, to read nature's complete genetic blueprint for …
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