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How Science Works

This interactive module allows students and educators to document, annotate, and reflect upon scientific research processes.

Science Practices
Tools
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Ocean Acidification

In this hands-on activity, students simulate the effects of decreasing pH caused by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Environmental Science
Science Practices
Labs & Demos
High School — General
High School — AP/IB

Sampling and Normal Distribution

This interactive simulation allows students to graph and analyze sample distributions taken from a normally distributed population.

Science Practices
Click & Learn
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Winogradsky Columns: Microbial Ecology in the Classroom

This activity instructs students how to build their own Winogradsky columns, which provide visual examples of the diverse modes of metabolism in the microbial world.

Microbiology
Science Practices
Labs & Demos
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Modeling the Regulatory Switches of the Pitx1 Gene in Stickleback Fish

This hands-on activity supports concepts covered in the film Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies about the evolution of stickleback fish. Students interpret molecular diagrams and build physical models of eukaryotic gene regulation.

Genetics
Evolution
Science Practices
Labs & Demos
High School — General
High School — AP/IB
College

Battling Beetles

This activity engages students in learning about the mechanism of evolution by natural selection and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium using candies to represent populations of beetles.

Evolution
Science Practices
Labs & Demos
High School — General
High School — AP/IB

Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus

This activity engages students in learning about the mechanism of natural selection using candies to represent individuals of a species of clam.

Evolution
Science Practices
Labs & Demos
High School — General