Garden
Genetics: Teaching With Edible Plants—Teacher EditionGarden
Genetics: Teaching With Edible Plants—Teacher Edition
NSTA Press
Grades 9–12
Tired of teaching genetic concepts with the same old pink petunias and Mendel’s peas? With Garden Genetics, you can present core content in ways that are fun for students and fresh for you. This two-part set—a teacher edition and companion student edition—is adaptable to biology students at all levels, including Advanced Placement. It uses a series of activities and inquiry-based experiments with familiar foods to teach genetics while helping students make connections to ecology, evolution, plant biology, and even social science.
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Science
by Design: Construct-a-Greenhouse
NSTA Recommends
Grades 9–12
Shed some light on the physics supporting plant growth in a controlled environment. Greenhouses provide the differential energy needs of plants during their growth cycle. Students design structures that convert light to heat during germination and reconfigure those structures to promote photosynthesis. By comparing the effects of design characteristics on plant growth, students observe the connections between plant biology and thermodynamics and energy transfer.
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Biology
Is Outdoors! A Comprehensive Resource for Studying School Environments
NSTA Recommends
Grades 9–12
Biology is Outdoors: A Comprehensive Resource for Studying School Environments is a book designed to enable middle school or high school biology students to conduct biological scientific investigations that use school grounds. An examination of the physical aspects and of the interacting organisms within the existing ecosystem provides an excellent opportunity for students to study plant and animal life, even in the artificial environment of the schoolyard.
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