Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Fall is Here and Biotechnology Academy Students are Learning Science Habits of Mind.

Biotechnology Students are engaging in hands on science as they learn and re-learn the metric system and science habits of mind.  Biology students are learning about atomic theory, compounds, and biomolecules.  Chemistry students are getting a crash course in the metric system and scientific notation.  Genetic students are doing a deep dive into protein chemistry and learning about the workhorse molecules of biology.  Welcome Back to Science!

Learning about protein folding in genetics class.

Learning about the chemical properties of amino acid side chains in genetics.

Spooling DNA in genetics!

Team work and a successful DNA extraction!

Biology students investigating biomolecules.

Biology students performing tests on unknown biomolecules-teamwork pays off in testing!