Month: November 2009
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Study Planarian Regeneration with Scalpels
Students study a freshwater planarian by exploring its movements and cutting it in half to observe regeneration
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How to Study Protists with Freshman
The unit on protists is one that I used to dread, mainly because the world of microscopic organisms does not ever seem particularly interesting to students, where only a small percentage of them seem to care about the Ameba and Paramecium. Furthermore, studying protozoa seems to be disconnected from real world applications. Laboratory investigations can…