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| | |  | | Shine a Light on Germs with Glo Germ™ | | Help your students prepare for the cold and flu season with Glo Germ™. Glo Germ™ glows under UV light, allowing students to evaluate their hand-washing technique and see how germs are spread via contact with people and objects. It is available individually as a gel, liquid, or powder and as a component in kits. See the link below for more.
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| | Coming into the Genome Age Part IV: Detecting Transgenes in Genetically Modified (GM) Food | | In this, the fourth in a series of articles on genetics, David Micklos discusses genetically modified foods, offering background information, pros and cons, and a look at the future. He includes an experiment that lets students become genetic detectives by searching for GM components in common food items. Click the link below for details.
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| | Observing Form and Function--An Inquiry Worth Having! | | Inquires in Science® is our new science curriculum for high school, with kit series for biology, chemistry, and environmental science. We’ll explore one of the kits in the Biology Series, Observing Form and Function. You’ll get a feel for how the curriculum works and preview 3 of the kit’s activities. See the link below to start.
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| | Need a Custom Microscope Slide? Let Carolina Prepare It for You! | | Carolina’s Microscope Slide Department can make almost any custom slide or slide set to your specifications. Discover some of the interesting things we’ve done for customers in the past and see how easy it is to contact us to create the exact slide or slide set you’ve been looking for but haven’t found. Visit the link below to learn more.
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| | Nap Time for Drosophila! | | Conventional methods of anesthetizing fruit flies for examination can be difficult for novices to master, resulting in dead or escaped flies. Carolina’s Fly Nap® anesthetic is an easy-to-use, effective, and inexpensive way to anesthetize fruit flies. It’s so easy to use that even novices quickly master it. See the link below to learn more.
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| | What's Happening at Carolina | | Science fair--2 words that students, faculty, and parents often dread. But it doesn’t need to be that way. With guidance and planning, science fair presents an exciting opportunity for students to explore their interests via the scientific process. Click the link below to find valuable tips for creating a positive science fair experience.
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| | | | |  | | | | | Teacher Tip: Clean Your Glassware with Rice | | Submitted by
Heather Reddig
Pasco-Hernando Community College
Brooksville, FL
| Here’s a way to clean those hard-to-reach spots in glassware.
Add a little dry rice to some soapy water and pour it into the glassware. Agitate the glassware by hand, and the rice and soapy water will scour the inside clean. This works well for volumetric flasks, aquarium filters, narrow-necked bottles, and other glassware.
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