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Equipment You Need for Online Tutoring

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Animals like lions, elephants, and tigers can help you teach about ecology and animal habitats around the world for geography and biology, and they can be extremely useful for vocabulary-building exercises when you teach languages. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Props From Everyday Life.

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How can place attachment improve scientific literacy?

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Published: At Furman University in the US, Dr Ben Haywood and Professor Julia Parrish from the University of Washington are studying how citizen science programmes impact the relationships participants have with the places and ecology they study which might, in turn, increase scientific literacy. Why is citizen science important?

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3 Augmented Reality Apps to Take Your Lessons to the Next Level

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Another advantage of the app is that it can help students learn mathematical formulas easily. In this case, the learning process can be drastically increased if an app like this is used during math classes. It offers the ability to transform regular classes into an interactive environment, suitable for learning. Science AR.

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Does city life negatively affect wildlife?

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Pathway from school to ecology • At high school and post-16, take classes in biology and geography. Study an undergraduate degree in ecology, environmental science, physical geography or biology. I always loved biology in school and, without really knowing what else to do with that, I planned to go to medical school.

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Farming on permafrost

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By understanding how landforms form on Earth, we can learn how they form on Mars, and this is a sub-field of permafrost geomorphology.” If you are interested in geomorphology , consider studying physical geography, geology or Earth science at university. Instead, I liked the look of physical geography classes and so switched subject.

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How philosophers have influenced the way you think about race

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TALK LIKE A HISTORIAN AND PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE Biological racism — prejudice against people based on the mistaken belief that ‘race’ is a part of a person’s biology and indicates race-specific traits like intelligence or work ethic Heredity — genetically passing on characteristics from biological parent to child.

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How to build a game-changing malaria vaccine

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However, recent research by Professor Richard Bucala and his team at Yale School of Medicine in the US have found a way to develop a potentially super-effective vaccine – by turning the disease’s most devious tactics against it. Finding ways to combat this complex and clever disease remains a significant challenge.

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