All living things need to obtain materials in order to stay alive. Chemotaxis is the directed movement towards or away from a chemical stimulus. In many cases, chemotaxis is a matter of life or death, so sensing and acting on feedback from the environment is a crucial life function.
In this learning segment, students will build an understanding of how controlling for a single variable in an experiment can help determine a cause and effect relationship in that situation. Students will first practice identifying causes and effects in everyday life situations.
In this lesson, “Why Can’t You Leave Me Alone?” students explore the selective pressures that led to the evolution of parenting behavior in Dentrobatidae, or Poison Dart Frogs.
How can human-caused changes to the environment impact human health?
This ETP was inspired by the research from Susanne Sokolow and Giulio De Leo along with other members of the De Leo Lab.
Amazing Adaptations is an in-class group activity that challenges students to think about how animals evolved their diverse adaptations via natural selection.
Students will work as teams and use principles of Design Thinking to help design and construct a model of a bird beak to best take advantage of the food available in a simulated environment.
Students will study conditions favorable to growing Chlamydomonas, a genus of algae cultured at the Pringle Lab at Stanford University, to determine influential factors related to growth, life cycle, and reproductive rates.