Choose Well: Separation of Powers (Texas)
Part of our Let's Do Justice for Texas public education initiative, created to highlight the importance of the Rule of Law in our everyday lives. It is for the state of Texas but it can be used with federal government.
Separation of National and State Governments
The United States federal system divides power between national and state governments, both of which govern the same constituents. The powers granted to the national government in the Constitution are called delegated powers. There are three types of delegated powers: enumerated powers, implied powers, and inherent powers. (Video is narrated with slides and speeches.)
A Beginning Look at Photosynthesis: Plants Need Light
The purpose of this resource is to develop an understanding of plants' response to light. Students will do simple investigations to observe plant responses to light.
Environmental Impacts and Benefits of Using Geothermal Energy
This website by the US Department of Energy describes how the production of geothermal energy can meet clean air, water quality and conservation standards, as well as minimize land use, environmental impacts and solid waste production. There is also a table of environmental regulations governing geothermal energy development.
Cell-O
Developed for third and fourth grade. In this activity students will be able to explore the structure of a cell by building their own models with Jell-o and candy. Students will learn the different parts of the cell and their functions. We will also discuss the importance of cells in the human body.
Biology In Elementary Schools is a Saint Michael's College student project. The teaching ideas on this page have been found, refined, and developed by students in a college-level course on the teach
NASA KSNN Why do plants grow upwards?
Find out more about experiments in growing plants in space and compare plant growth in various mediums.
NASA KSNN What do plants need to grow?
By definition, a plant is a living thing that produces its own food through photosynthesis. This process uses carbon dioxide and water. Trapping light from the Sun, plants are able to change sunlight's energy into useable chemical energy. Not only is chemical energy produced, but oxygen is a by-product of photosynthesis. Plants are essential to the balance of life on Earth - and to life, as we know it, on other planets.
Plants and Landscapes
This course is the fourth in a series of videos that offers a wide variety of information about landscape maintenance. Specifically, this module covers non-turf plants in the landscape, plant life cycle, plant physiology, and how to select plants to include in your landscape.
How to Start an Oil Painting
Don't know where or how to start? Look again at your image-add some mineral spirits to your brush so the pain is not thick. Choose a corner and start to block it in. English captions. (2:17)
Plants and Animals, Partners in Pollination
This site helps students see how plants and animals interact to accomplish pollination. Students (Grades 3-8) identify plant and animal parts involved in pollination, connections between pollination and food production, relationships between pollinators and the plants they pollinate, and ways flowers have adapted to encourage pollination.
OSP with Jython Web Start application - step-by-step guide
A description of how to build Java Web Start applications using the OSP library. Integrates the OpenSourcePhysics .jar library files and the Python classes generated by Jython during compiling time with jythonc.
Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers
This lesson explores the important Constitutional mechanism providing for the separation of powers of government among three branches so that each branch checks the other two. Lesson plans use the New Deal to help teach this concept.
Cell Division in Animals
This is a brief computer-animated video that describes differentiation in animals at the cellular level (cell division). Once the cells are differentiated they lose the ability to divide. As a result, one cannot grow a whole animal in a culture medium from a single cell. The growth of the whole animal in a single cell is only possible in the early stages of development - after the first one or two divisions. Other key words include: ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm.  Run time 01:51.
Cell and Tissue Dysfunction, Cancer and Experimental Strategies to Develop Anti-cancer Therapeutics
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The Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Meiosis
UKOER Instructional sheet
Producing antibodies in plants
Dr. Lorenzo Frigerio from Warwick's Biological Sciences Department talks about the Wellcome Trust Translation Award he has received to enable him to validate his lab based work on increased yield of antibody production within plant cells using complete plants in order to show industrial scale manufacture is possible.
Length: 19 minutes
Who Owns Fairtrade? A debate on who benefits, influences and controls Fairtrade
The idea of fair trade has become increasingly popular amongst consumers and some producers. But who does fair-trade really benefit? The producers? The consumers? The Farmers? These are some of the issues that the panel will debate.
Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers
This lesson explores the important Constitutional mechanism providing for the separation of powers of government among three branches so that each branch checks the other two. Lesson plans use the New Deal to help teach this concept.
The Risks of Genetically Modifying Human Embryos or Gametes
Many consider genetic modification to be the riskiest mode of biomedical enhancement. The problem of unintended bad consequences is serious, but it is often misrepresented in terms of interference with the 'wisdom of nature' or the handiwork of the 'master engineer' of evolution.
Cell structure and organization -#2
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