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The Koshland Science Museum offers a unique, standards-based approach to learning. Whether you are planning to visit the museum or looking for activities to use in your classroom, our activities will engage and challenge your students to think critically about scientific issues.
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VISIT THE KOSHLAND
Field Trip

A classroom visit to the Koshland is a unique experience. The museum can accomodate groups of different sizes and offers an in-depth experience lead by master teachers. Classes can choose to focus on the entire museum or specialize with a field trip focused on climate change or infectious disease.
Students on a field trip
Students are engaged and challenged during their visit.
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LIGHTS AT NIGHT
WebQuest

Concerns about global warming have made energy use a major issue around the world. Discover how several countries use energy and how much light they give off at night. See first hand how personal, national, and global decisions can impact the future of climate change.
Visitors explore the Lights at Night
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
WebQuest

Bird flu - or avian influenza - has been a hot topic in the news. In this Koshland-designed webquest, high school or undergraduate students make recommendations to the public or policy makers about how Americans should handle the potential arrival of an avian influenza epidemic.
How will your students decide to handle the bird flu?
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GLOBAL WARMING
WebQuest

Using this Internet-based webquest activity, students will learn about climate change, energy use, and global warming. They will be challenged to make better decisions regarding the complicated issues surrounding climate change and global warming.
Students explore internet resources on global warming.
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HOW DO ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS WORK?
Classroom Activity

Just 25 years since it was first reported, HIV/AIDS has become one of the world's major public health crises. Working in small groups, students will examine the life cycle of HIV and determine how to control the spread of the infection.
Students consider how drugs can halt the HIV lifecycle.
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CONTROLLING HIV PANDEMIC
Classroom Activity

More than 39 million people are estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, mostly in developing countries. Students will investigate data on HIV prevelance and describe public health measures to control the spread of the disease.
World Health Organization data is used in this activity.
VIRTUAL FIELD TRIP
Field Trip

While a field trip visit to the Koshland Science Museum is an ideal way to learn about global warming and infectious disease, students can use the same interactive resources found in the museum by participating in a on-line Virtual Field trip.
Students use virtual exhibits in class or at home.
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GENETIC DISEASE
WebQuest

Students take on different roles to learn about DNA and genetic diseases, including how a genetic disease causes a person to get sick, how we test for and treat a genetic disease, and how we help people to make better decisions regarding all the complicated issues involved with genetic diseases.
Genetic testing and disease are explored in this activity.

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