Plant Domestication: A class for upper-level high school students
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By Xiang Li, Conviron Scholar.
The assignment was to develop a lesson for school students.
Our team (Xiang Li, Haley Carter, Nikolaos Ntelkis and Samantha Snodgrass) prepared the materials for a class of plant domestication designed for upper high school students. We aim to help students understand…
How to make a DNA Bracelet
Activities, Activities, Blog, Education, Education General, MHS Activities, Middle & High School, UndergraduateCross-posted from Kelsey Wood with permission. Kelsey is a PhD student at U.C. Davis.
How to make a DNA bracelet, from any organism and any gene!
I study plant-pathogen interactions, so I chose to make a sequence from a wild tobacco gene that is important for plant defense against pathogens.
What…
Backyard Mystery, a free curriculum about pathogens
Education, MHS Activities, Middle & High School, ResourcesA free curriculum for grades 5 - 7
Download at http://ucbiotech.org/backyardmystery/
About Backyard Mystery
Backyard Mystery is part of the STEMware™ project, “Collaborative Research Strategies: STEMware™ – Designing Immersive Biology Learning Simulations for Formal and Informal Settings”.…
It's all in the touch: Plant Biology Curriculum for grades 5 - 8 (ages 10 - 13)
Education, MHS Activities, Middle & High School, Organizations, ResourcesThe All In the Touch curriculum was developed by Dr. Peggy G. Lemaux and her assistant, Science Communication Specialist Ms. Barbara Alonso at the University of California, Berkeley with funding from the American Society of Plant Biologists (http://aspb.org ). Dr. Cristina Reynaga-Pena also contributed…
Plant evolution and diversity word search
Activities, Activities, Education, MHS Activities, Middle & High SchoolBotanical terms can seem obscure. Why not help your students master some terminology through a word search puzzle?
Download it here: http://aspb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Plant-Evolution-SearchaWord.pdf
Hunt for Plants in Your House
Activities, Education, MHS Activities, Middle & High SchoolHelp eradicate plant blindness as students explore the plants that comprise their indoor environent. This quick, classroom-ready page (PDF) is ideally suited for middle grade students.
"Plants are all around us. Plants are used for their fiber, oil and nutritional content. They help us have clean…
How many plants in a hamburger?
Activities, Education, MHS Activities, Middle & High SchoolHelp eradicate plant blindness as students explore plant biology concepts and hands-on activities related to a hamburger. This quick, classroom-ready page (PDF) is ideally suited for middle grade students. The back of the sheet lists the plants needed to make a burger, from barley to wheat!
How…
“How to Read a Scientific Paper” and “Case Study: Reading a Plant Physiology article”
Activities, Blog, Education, Education General, MHS Activities, Middle & High School, Resources, ResourcesOne of the most important skills a young scientist needs to learn is how to read (and write) scientific papers. Some students begin to learn this in a high school biology classes, and others as they begin their university coursework. To help instructors teach these critical skills, we created two articles…
Greening the classroom: Acitivities from ABRC
Activities, Education, MHS Activities, Organizations, OrganizationsThe Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center (ABRC) has developed numerous investigative activities using Arabidopsis. Most of the activities are suitable for high school or college level students. You can order seeds (usually free to educators) and download teaching guides from the Education and Outreach…