Biology Classes Use Internet Research
Robert Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Biology students in Sherry Burris Deets' classes at Belleville Township High School West have been collecting data for their research projects from around the country via the Internet.
In one class, for example, one group of students was attempting to determine treatment for a problem pregnancy. Members of another group were tapping out questions on their project - infertility - to be sent via the Internet to a research department at the University of Texas at Houston.
"By tomorrow, we should have some answers back," Deets said as class ended.
Two months ago, Deets obtained a $5,000 grant from Ameritech and the Golden Apple Foundation. It is the largest …
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Article title: Biology Classes Use Internet Research.
Contributors: Robert Goodrich Of the Post-Dispatch - Author.
Newspaper title: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO).
Publication date: April 13, 1995.
Page number: 1.
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