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A Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair

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A Teacher’s Guide to Science Fair Post by Michelle Bogden & Natasha Wilkerson August 1, 2023 Are you a teacher responsible for running Science Fair this year? Read on for our Science Fair Guide: Steps to Success! What is Science Fair? The process of science is messy!

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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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Can we decipher the mechanisms that allow plant cells to communicate?

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Can we decipher the mechanisms that allow plant cells to communicate? Humans depend on plants for their survival. Plants provide the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat, but much of their functioning remains a mystery to us. TALK LIKE A PLANT BIOLOGIST. They are crucial to the plant’s growth and development.

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How can we improve food safety across the world?

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At the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA, Dr Wei Zhang , a professor of food science, is focusing on improving food safety for everyone. Currently, Wei is developing new research ideas that will allow him to study how Cronobacter is able to survive these dry conditions. 420,000 of those people die.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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Bushfires can also result in the widespread destruction of habitat and increase the risk to threatened plant and animal communities. For example, using data on the traits and ecological requirements of different plant species, we can examine how changing fire risk might affect different ecological communities,” explains Erica.

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A crisis of clarity: can defining biodiversity help us protect the natural world?

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TALK LIKE A PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE. TAXONOMY – the branch of science associated with classifying and organising organisms. CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING – a method philosophers use to try to find and fix places where ideas from science (or everyday life) are confused or unclear.

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes

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Synthetic biology: the power of modified microbes Published: Microbes are the world’s most brilliant chemists, able to turn simple sugars and other compounds into a vast array of complex chemicals. The general idea of synthetic biology is that we can engineer microbes to do things that naturally occurring microbes don’t do,” he says.

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