San Diego is a biodiversity hotspot and its diversity of ecosystems attracts not only unique plants and animals, but tourists as well. Graduate Fellow Sheila Walsh | Teacher PartnerFrank Luera
We are working with microorganisms to show students that climate change affects them locally too! Mira Mesa High school students work with a deep marine core to look at climate change off the California coast with graduate student Johnnie Lyman.
We have been using the microscopic nematode, C. elegans, in the classroom to discuss transcription, translation, mutation, behavior and neurobiology. Students in Darci Kimball's Castle Park High School have really been enjoying their work with this fun organism!
Nathan Samuels (11th grade chem teacher) and Rosa Leon (grad student marine biology) are working at Mount Miguel High School. We concentrate on getting our students excited with science and making science more of an everyday life subject. Our main project has been to explore the relationship between the depth of the ocean and pressure. Graduate Fellow Rosa Leon-Zayas | Teacher Partner Nathan Samuels
Ocean acidification, a phenomenon related to current global climate change, is becoming a major threat to marine ecosystems ranging from tropical coral reefs to the chilly waters of the Antarctic. In this lesson, students observe and investigate the mechanisms driving ocean acidification. The lesson and lab make connections to basic chemical principles such as acids/bases and the pH scale.
Ecology is a grand synthesis of biological interactions, and can be overwhelming in its complexity. Using the biology of bees as a guide, we have developed curriculum designed to makes these interactions and relationships more accessible to students.
