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Peter Lampert; Peter Pany; Niklas Gericke – Journal of Biological Education, 2025
Sustaining a broad diversity of plants is key for a sustainable future. For instance, providing a variety of flowering plants in urban and agricultural landscapes mitigates the current decline of pollinators and biodiversity in general. Therefore, educating about the diversity of flowering plants has high current relevance for biology and…
Descriptors: Printing, Plants (Botany), Hands on Science, Botany
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Jacob Lakomy; John Kopas; Jon Friedman; Ajay Patel; Alex J. Bertuccio – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
A hydroponics experiment growing microgreens was piloted by seniors where trials were conducted over 9-day growth periods and designed to test 12 different growth conditions in triplicate, including varying nutrient supply, nutrient flow rate, and seed density. Plant growth was assessed through changes in daily mass, height, and final dry weight.…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Agricultural Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry
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Rui-tang Guo; Cheng Xia; Wei-guo Pan – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The chemical experiment is designed for undergraduates majoring in chemistry, energy, and environment. The intended purpose is that the students will comprehend the reaction mechanism of photocatalytic reduction of CO[subscript 2] through hands-on experiments and deepen their understanding of sustainable energy technologies. More importantly, the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Laboratory Experiments, Scientific Concepts
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Alex Hidalgo – History Teacher, 2024
In the early modern era, Spanish missionaries, cosmographers, chroniclers, and physicians wrote major studies on botany, ethnography, navigation, Indigenous languages, war, and history, aided by capable, though often reluctant, Indigenous informants. They penned this rich body of scholarship using iron gall ink -- a mixture of tannins, sulfates,…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Experiential Learning, Assignments, Undergraduate Students
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Alexander Eden; Jamie Anderson; Amy Padolf – American Biology Teacher, 2025
Engaging students in science education while tapping into their innate curiosity is a crucial aim for educators. This article presents a collaborative program between a botanical garden and public high school, aimed at engaging students in botany through authentic research experiences. Beginning in 10th grade and continuing through their…
Descriptors: Botany, Gardening, Partnerships in Education, High School Students
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Brooke Soobrian; Alex J. King; Justin C. Bui; Adam Z. Weber; Alexis T. Bell; Frances A. Houle – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
Artificial photosynthesis is a promising approach to generate commodity chemicals using abundant chemical feedstocks and renewable energy sources. Despite its importance, affordable and effective hands-on classroom activities that demonstrate artificial photosynthesis and teach key concepts, especially for primary school students, are lacking.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Science Instruction, Chemistry
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Loureiro, Jerônimo de Oliveira; Dal-Farra, Rossano André – Environmental Education Research, 2018
The increasing urbanization and alienation from nature reduce children's opportunities to interact with plants and challenge teachers to devise educational practices that contribute to learning botany. This study presents the results of activities developed in a Brazilian school through explorations, drawings, dried and pressed specimens, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Botany, Environmental Education, Elementary School Students
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Forrest, Lorrie; Hechter, Richard – Science and Children, 2017
This article describes an activity designed to foster an authentic way for students to learn about the biodiversity in their community. The activity is a half year scaffolding sequence to explore the living environment right outside the classroom. In using the outdoors just outside the window as a classroom, an inquiry based activity accomplished…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Biological Sciences, Science Activities, Biodiversity
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Cottrell, Vicki M. – School Science Review, 2013
African violet (genus "Saintpaulia") was identified as a particularly suitable genus for the study of specialised plant cells in the classroom using microscopes. The techniques described here involve simple preparation without staining. The cells and structures that can be investigated include: trichomes (hairs); stomata; guard cells and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Plants (Botany), Teaching Methods, Scientific Concepts
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Siritunga, Dimuth; Navas, Vivian; Diffoot, Nanette – International Education Studies, 2012
Early involvement of students in hands-on research experiences are known to demystify research and promote the pursuit of careers in science. But in large enrollment departments such opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research are rare. To counteract such lack of opportunities, inquiry-based laboratory module in plant tissue…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Group Students, Undergraduate Students, Botany
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2010
Photosynthesis may be an unlikely topic to inspire an opera or ballet, but in a 2nd grade classroom in Pikesville, Maryland, the children were asked to use dance to help them learn about that process. Small groups of pupils in this class at Fort Garrison Elementary School brainstormed to come up with dance movements to convey elements of…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Botany, Dance, Scientific Concepts
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Elster, D.; Barendziak, T.; Haskamp, F.; Kastenholz, L. – Science Education International, 2014
Raising standards through inquiry-based science education (IBSE)--what are the challenges for pre-service teacher education? What do ongoing teachers and active teachers learn from each other when planning, conducting and evaluating minds-on and hands-on IBSE activities in the classroom? What do they learn "beyond" IBSE? The Bremen…
Descriptors: Standards, Science Education, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teacher Education
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Flowers are not only pretty, they are also one of the key elements in the process of plant pollination and reproduction that goes from flowers to fruits to seeds! In All About Plant Pollination: Fruit, Flowers & Seeds, young scientists learn about the different parts of a flower through the use of microscopic photography and detailed diagrams.…
Descriptors: Botany, Elementary Education, Hands on Science, Plants (Botany)
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Silvius, John E.; Eckart, Christopher P. – American Biology Teacher, 1997
Suggests the cells of an apple peel as a plant species that can further enhance the plant cell laboratory. Describes the structure of apple peel cells and the benefits of including them in studies of plant cells. Suggests questions to stimulate further investigations for open-ended laboratories or independent studies. (PVD)
Descriptors: Biology, Botany, Hands on Science, Higher Education
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Littlejohn, Patty – Science Scope, 2007
Where does cellular respiration take place? How does a plant make food and in turn use the food to produce its own energy? Do animals carry on this process also? To help students answer these and other questions, have them build a model leaf, plant cell, and animal cell. This hands-on project allows students to see and manipulate the reactants and…
Descriptors: Botany, Science Instruction, Animals, Science Activities
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