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Characteristics of Living Things
What’s the Size of What You See?
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Broken Hearts
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Classroom Explorations
Characteristics of Living Things
Observation
Traits of life
Hones observation and critical thinking skills through analysis of video clips of cells and organisms.
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What’s the Size of What You See?
Microscopy
Math in science
Uses images and a scale bar to provide experience calculating the size of microscopic specimens.
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Elodea
Explorations
Cell biology
Math in science
Develops principles of plant cell structure, function, and size with videos and still images.
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Model Organisms
Research tools
Presents model organisms and information about research in which these organisms are used.
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Wild Type and Mutant
Genetics
Presents genetic terminology and fruit fly genetics by comparing wild-type and mutant flies.
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Genetic Crosses
Genetics
Inheritance patterns
Uses fly cutouts and Punnett squares as tools for predicting the products of genetic crosses.
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Broken Hearts
Physiology (heart)
Genetics
Compares human and zebrafish hearts and shows how mutant zebrafish help unlock mysteries of human physiology.
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Zebrafish Development
Developmental biology
Mitosis
Uses videos and still images to show how a baby zebrafish develops from a single cell.
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Supported by a
Science Education Partnership Award
(SEPA)
from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health
, and the
David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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