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It’s 1954, and families across the United States are deciding whether their children should participate in trials for the newly developed polio vaccine. What would you decide? #CommunityImmunity #PublicHealth #ScienceEducation #NGSS #TeacherResources #LabXchange

Community immunity depends on many factors. In the video “Why Outbreaks Still Happen: Simulating Community Immunity in Real Time,” created by @galacticpolymath.com, students hear from researchers exploring how vaccination rates, social networks, access, & vaccine confidence shape community immunity.

What does community immunity actually look like? In @galacticpolymath.com's Community Immunity interactive, students can see it unfold.

Students get to take on the role of a parent and explore how factors including vaccination rates, access, social influence, and disease infectiousness can affect what happens when an outbreak enters a community.

How can one person’s health decision affect an entire community? New resources from @galacticpolymath.com, now available on LabXchange, invite students to explore this question through an interactive simulation, scientific research, and history.

This collection gives students opportunities to investigate how vaccination rates and community-level factors influence disease spread, hear from researchers studying vaccination decision-making, and examine the choices families faced during the 1954 polio vaccine trials.

Great teaching can look different in every classroom, but there’s a lot educators can learn from one another. This #WorldTeachersDay, we’re sharing advice from educators across the LabXchange community, from Mexico, the United States, and Malawi.

Their reflections touch on something we see across our community: giving learners space to explore, connecting learning to their interests, encouraging critical thinking, and creating opportunities that might not otherwise be possible.

Some AP® Biology topics are hard to teach not because the content is obscure, but because students are being asked to make sense of several interconnected ideas at once. #APBiology #BiologyTeacher #ScienceEducation #STEMEducation #LabXchange

In a new series of videos, we’ll explore how digital resources can help educators break complex ideas into smaller pieces, give students space to learn at their own pace, build familiarity through consistent visuals, and create more opportunities to practice.

Some AP® Biology topics are hard to teach not because the content is obscure, but because students are being asked to make sense of several interconnected ideas at once. #APBiology #BiologyTeacher #ScienceEducation #STEMEducation #LabXchange

A cell signaling pathway with multiple moving parts. Meiosis at the intersection of cell division, inheritance, and gene expression. Data analysis layered onto the results of a lab.

Students don’t only learn about science through equations, experiments, and diagrams. They also learn through the people whose work and experiences are included in the curriculum. #STEMStories #VoicesInScience #STEMEducation #BelongingInSTEM #LabXchange

Sharing a wider range of science stories can help learners understand that there is no single path into STEMM and no single pathway to becoming a scientist.

Today is National Online Learning Day 🌍 Online learning has the power to open up new ways to learn, connect, and explore—but access is still far from universal.

According to UNESCO, 2.6 billion people, or 32% of the global population, still lack internet access. Closing that gap will take continued collaboration and investment so that more learners can benefit from the opportunities digital learning creates.

A new school year is a chance to establish what a strong scientific explanation looks like. A claim states the answer. Evidence shows what supports it. Reasoning explains why the evidence makes the claim convincing. That final step is often the hardest and the most important.

Three questions can help learners build stronger explanations from the start: - What is your claim? - Which evidence supports it? - Why does that evidence support your conclusion? #BackToSchool #ScientificReasoning #ScientificThinking #ScienceEducation #LabXchange

Lab safety begins before the first beaker comes out. Rules are easier to remember when students understand why they matter. Rather than treating safety as a checklist on the wall, educators can make it part of the way the class investigates, collaborates, and cares for one another.

A few #LabSafety habits to establish from the start: - Wear goggles and appropriate lab attire before beginning an investigation. - Make sure learners know where safety equipment is located. - Review potential hazards and safe equipment use before materials are distributed.

🧪 Is it a fair test? Imagine two plants receiving different amounts of water, but one is placed beside a sunny window and the other in a dark corner.  What caused the difference in growth: the water or the light?

The Experimental Design, Data, and Variables pathway explores testable questions, variables, controls, data types, sampling, and the difference between correlation and causation.

🧪 Is it a fair test? Imagine two plants receiving different amounts of water, but one is placed beside a sunny window and the other in a dark corner.  What caused the difference in growth: the water or the light?

What makes prokaryotic cells different from eukaryotic cells? Let's break it down!

Eukaryotes, on the other hand, can be single-celled or multicellular. They store their DNA inside a nucleus, contain ribosomes, and have various membrane-bound organelles. Plants, animals, and fungi all fall under the category of eukaryotes.

What makes prokaryotic cells different from eukaryotic cells? Let's break it down!

How can AP Biology teachers build students’ confidence with data? Data analysis & visualization skills are increasingly important on the AP Biology exam, but students often need more practice interpreting data, creating graphs, describing variability, and connecting data back to biological concepts.

In this session, educators will explore LabXchange resources from the Data Science and Biotechnology cluster, including interactive data widgets and spreadsheet simulations designed to support data-driven investigations. #APBio #DataVisualization #DataScienceEducation #STEMEducation #LabXchange

How can AP Biology teachers build students’ confidence with data? Data analysis & visualization skills are increasingly important on the AP Biology exam, but students often need more practice interpreting data, creating graphs, describing variability, and connecting data back to biological concepts.

All energy in living systems originates from the Sun. Energy isn't created or destroyed, but rather transformed.

Sunlight becomes glucose through photosynthesis. Glucose becomes usable energy through respiration. And that energy moves through ecosystems in a pattern that repeats from a single cell to an entire food web.