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April TipsThis email was sent by Carolina Biological Supply Company. | | |  |  | | Here’s an educational way to celebrate Environmental Education Week. In this elementary school activity from our partner Discovery Education™, students learn about tsunamis. With inexpensive materials, they construct a model to demonstrate how earthquakes affect sea waves. Includes vocabulary, discussion questions, evaluation, and an extension.
Read the Dynamic Earth Activity >>
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|  | | Dissection of the sheep heart offers students an excellent opportunity to learn about the anatomy of a mammalian heart that is similar in structure and function to the human heart, but much smaller. This activity includes step-by-step instructions for a detailed external and internal dissection of the sheep heart.
Read the Sheep Heart Dissection Article >>
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|  | | Introduce high school biology and chemistry students to the concept of denatured proteins with this inexpensive, fun demonstration. Your students will be amazed when you “cook” an egg in hydrochloric acid, and they will learn that a protein (egg white) can be denatured by heat, or, as shown in the demonstration, by an acid.
Read the Cooking Eggs with Chemicals Activity >> | | | | |  | | | | | Teacher Tip: Save the Leftovers
| | Submitted by Pamela Zell, Academy Heights Elementary School, Pinehurst, NC
|  | Don’t let your students throw fruit and vegetable leftovers in the trash. Instead, have them deposit their leftovers in the school compost bin. Then use the resulting compost in your class or school garden.
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