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What's the Big Idea? Understanding the Laboratory Experience in the AP* Chemistry Curriculum
If you teach AP* Chemistry, you’re already aware, or need to be, that changes to the course curriculum are here, which means you’ll probably have to change your classroom instruction. To help relieve your anxiety, here’s an overview of the course revisions, some important dates to remember, and 2 ways Carolina can help to ensure your success during this transition. View »
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Coming into the Genome Age Part III: The Molecular Genetic Basis of PTC Tasting
This experiment links genotype to phenotype and puts a contemporary spin on an old standby of classical genetics. View »
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Coming into the Genome Age Part II: Exploring Human Variation and Evolution
This article introduces an experiment that allows students to use their own DNA differences (polymorphisms) to explore human variation, relatedness, and evolution. View »
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Coming into the Genome Age Part I: The Challenge to Science Education
Explore resources and activities from the Dolan DNA Learning Center. View »
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Coming into the Genome Age Part IV: Detecting Transgenes in Genetically Modified Food
Molecular genetic techniques have been used to add transgenes into the genomes of a number of important food plants. View »
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Using the Concepts Associated with Providing Clean Drinking Water to Teach Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Introducing students to the issues associated with safe drinking water is a great real-world, interdisciplinary way to teach science. View »
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Bees, Butterflies, and Flowers
Introduce your students to the symbiotic relationships between these organisms and to their impact on our food supply and environment. Carolina product developer Brent Atkinson offers background information, a brief discussion of each relationship, and tips for using your schoolyard to attract and sustain pollinating insects. View »
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Examples to Use When Teaching About Selection and Evolution: Fox Domestication and Poison Resistance in Rodents
To make abstract science concepts more concrete, teachers often use real-life examples. But even classic examples can lose their appeal. Refresh your lessons on evolution and selection with 2 less well known examples. View »
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Give Your Students Real-World Experiences with Authentic CSI Tools
Put the fun into forensic science and apply STEM principles with authentic CSI tools. Your students will enjoy investigating the scene of a crime. And who knows? You might even inspire them to pursue forensic science as a career. View »
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Infographic: Ecosystem Services
Clean water, pollination, and flood control are several of the free services that ecosystems provide to human kind. This infographic shows how ecosystem service provide huge economic and health benefits to humans. View »
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How to Make a Good Scientific Model
Are your students able to generate observations and construct a scientific model? Use our free scientific model checklist to help guide them. View »
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Carolina Investigations® for AP® Chemistry: Chemical Kinetics
The order of a chemical reaction shows the relationship between the rate of chemical reaction and the concentration of reactant. View »
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