This is an alternative assessment activity in which students pull apart a rotting log as an example of a microhabitat that can be explored in the classroom. As they dissect ...
Protein synthesis comic strip Created by teachers from the Science STARTS/Delta Sierra Science Program summer institute Let your creative juices flow. The process of translating nucleic acids into amino acids ...
The following are a series of real world genetics problems that relate to the genetic disorders cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. They may be used to give students practice ...
Mars Exploration Rovers This special-effects image combines a model of the Mars rover Opportunity and 46 photogrpahs that Opportunity took of "Burns cliffs" near the edge of "Endurance Crater". Image ...
Performance tasks Other-worldly sports – Students create a poster illustrating how their favorite sport might look on a planet of their choosing, explaining how differences in gravity and atmosphere could affect ...
Performance Tasks Students will be able to design an organism that could live in Pt Reyes, both today and what adaptations it would need in order to live there in one ...
Performance Tasks Closed Chemistry- Design and build a closed structure in which a chemical reaction can occur. You will present your demonstration to the class providing evidence for conservation of mass. ...