How big are cells? Ask most middle school students that question, and they’ll tell you that cells are very small - even microscopic! But what if you asked them to compare the size of cells in a whale and a shrew?
That’s the engaging scenario laid out in “Whale and Shrew,” a formative assessment probe from […]
Archive for September, 2009
Investigating Cell Size
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 7:07 pm
Written by: Jessica Fries-Gaither
Join the MSP2 Book Club
Friday, September 11th, 2009 10:00 am
Written by: Kimberly Lightle
The Middle School Portal 2: Math and Science Pathways (MSP2) project is starting an online book club. Our first selection is The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. In it, Michael Pollan writes about how our food is grown - what it is, in fact, that we are eating. Pollan looks at industrial […]
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