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Entries from September 4th, 2009

Differentiated Instruction Worksheets

September 4th, 2009 No Comments

One of the advantages to using the EL web activities with your students is that they provide a natural vehicle for differentiating instruction. Take the activities for a topic like protein synthesis like (11.4 and 11.8). These two activities work together to tell the story of how proteins are manufactured in the cell. There is [...]

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Exploring Life Site Maps

September 4th, 2009 No Comments

There are so many activities on the Exploring Life web site (6000 web pages in all!), it’s sometimes difficult to remember where exactly a particular activity is located.  Say, for instance, you remember seeing an interesting activity featuring Venus Fly Traps – but was it in the plant physiology chapter or the plant diversity chapter?  [...]

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