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Tips on Student Research Projects

Now is a good time to motivate them using lesson plans on a variety of projects, especially research projects. Teaching high school students the importance of research projects is a great challenge especially when teachers are under lots of time and curriculum constraints. With a few months remaining of the school year, there is still time left to implement even a small scale research project.

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Teaching Research Skills to Students For the Twenty

Many teachers are afraid to allow their students to use the Internet to write research papers. Teacher complaints that I have heard regarding this topic are: “Students plagiarize by cutting and pasting information from websites.” “Students will not search beyond the first few sites they Google.” “Students cannot distinguish an appropriate site for information from an advertisement.”

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All About Biotech Research

One of my friends, a former community college student at the school at the same time I was working there, has decided to go into biotech research. She is technologically savvy and at the same time is fascinated with and good at working with the environment, and hopes to make some important contributions to our area (Northern California). So what does it mean to do biotech research? What does it take to get into the field of biotechnology? And how much dough can you make?

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