Tag: biology

Seventh graders used proportional reasoning and scale factors to build accurate, scaled papier-mâché models of their ocean species.

Students engaged in a systematic literature review to investigate how pseudoscience has contributed to social inequities throughout history.

Alec talks to Shelley Glenn Lee, director of High Tech Elementary North County, and Durrell Kapan, a Senior Research Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, about how the Silvery Blue butterfly is filling the ecological niche left by the extinction of the Xerces Blue butterfly in San Francisco... with some help from Durrell and his team

Third and eleventh grade students collaborated to research and share insights about local natural spaces, enhancing their understanding through lessons, writing, research, and videos.

Students learned the history and biodiversity of the land to become documentarians of new stories

The Oyster Project is a student-led project equipping them with skills to monitor and document human impacts on their community's resources.

Students conducted a comprehensive study of San Diego's sensitive coastline, observing environmental interactions, interviewing individuals, and analyzing data to create various media forms, aiming to engage diverse audiences while connecting with younger students to share their experiences.

Students studied local plants and wrote seed paper books to be put into neighborhood Little Free Libraries

Students worked in small teams to design experiments testing different drugs or therapies on live mouse cancer cells

How do you grow food in space? In this project, 9th and 11th graders teamed up figure out how to do exactly that: grow food with no natural light, no gravity, and hardly any room!