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Students as "Human Chromosomes" in Role-Playing Mitosis & Meiosis
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Mitosis and meiosis are often challenging for many students to understand, particularly those who are not science majors. Reasons for this difficulty include students' inability to differentiate between doubling (replication), pairing (synapsis), and separating (disjunction), as well as determining whether or not these processes occur in mitosis, meiosis, or both (Smith, 1991). Further misconceptions include a lack of understanding of basic terms - contusing chromatids with chromosomes, or re...
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Modeling mitosis & meiosis: A problem-solving activity
The American Biology Teacher
; Models are useful in classroom settings for the same reason they are employed by the scientific community: models allow the investigator (or student) to easily examine processes that are not amenable to traditional study. While one often envisions models being extensively used in chemistry, they
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Developing Students' Adaptive Learning Skills.
College Teaching
; Introductory undergraduate courses are a special challenge to teach because the course materials often introduce students simultaneously to new vocabulary, new procedures, and many theoretical perspectives.(1) Students who actually have the potential to become both interested and competent in a
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Reporting Grades for Students with Disabilities in General Physical Education.
JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
; Thousands of students with disabilities are now being included in general physical education classes across the U.S. Along with determining ways to modify activities so that these students can participate safely and successfully, general physical educators face the task of trying to evaluate them
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Students' Perceptions of Instruction in Inclusion Classrooms: Implications for Students with Learning Disabilities.
Exceptional Children
; Increasingly, students with learning disabilities (LD) are receiving their education within general education classroom settings. Perhaps the greatest barrier to their success in the general education classroom has been a lack of appropriate instruction that yields adequate progress (e.g.,
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Help your students deal with tragedy.(20 Ways To ...)
Intervention in School & Clinic
; All students are vulnerable to the effects of tragic events. Students with disabilities are often more vulnerable to stress due to cognitive difficulties in understanding the events, low self-esteem, difficulties managing change, or the absence of social supports to help them cope. Teachers of
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