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Interesting to hear high school students take on standards-based grading.

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Exploring Bioethics-developed with the NIH Department of Bioethics and written by Education Development Center, Inc.-supports high school biology teachers in raising and addressing bioethical issues with their students and engages students in rigorous thinking and discussions. By providing conceptual guidelines that promote careful thinking about difficult cases, it stresses the importance of presenting thoughtful and relevant reasons for considered positions on ethical issues.

might be more high school/college level, but I am sure we will see a lot more in the future!

VCISE is a collection of interactive, online simulations designed to enhance traditional middle and high school science curricula by providing supplements to experimental laboratory or field work. The inquiry-based activities emphasize the scientific method. Students make observations, propose hypotheses, design experiments, collect and analyze data generated by the simulation, and synthesize and communicate results through an electronic notebook and an online report.

Program from Rutgers University . Designed to help high school students learn molecular genetics by participating in genuine scientific research. Cool stuff! Even if you don't participate, there are some nice resources here for genetics.

Just talking about this today with Randy and John...

Thanks to Newy for sharing this at the high school via email.