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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students learn the scientific method, variables, and graphing by meeting fellow students and playing a game of thumb war. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Scientific Method Activity
Food Webs and Pond Water | |
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Download Lesson Plan Middle School Activity: Students are going to construct a food web, identify aquatic organisms, and determine environmental impacts to aquatic ecosystems. More... |
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Published by Tracy Trimpe
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Middle School
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Cell Size - Surface Area Activity | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: This unit is an integration of important geometry, biology, and technology skills. The students will be using spreadsheet programs to solve problems relating surface area to volume ratios. Students will use cell models to observe the effect of increasing surface area to volume ratios on cell growth and functioning. More... |
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Published by Pete Anderson, Wendy Benz, Patty Glasgow, Keisha C. Ashton
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students mimic chromosome mutations by cutting and pasting paper chromosomes. More... |
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High School
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Coral Reef Detectives: “Who Done It?” | |
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Download Lesson Plan Download Alternative Lesson Plan Elementary School Activity: Students try to solve a mystery of the disappearing seahorse babies. Student learn about the suspects: tilapia, lionfish and turtle. Then students will fill out a chart about the suspects that will give clues about who had the seahorse babies for supper. At the end, students share their finding and vote to determine who was the guilty party. This webquest is a modified version of the forest animal mystery, which is listed as the second lesson plan. More... |
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Published by Diane Findlay
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Elementary School
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Real-Life Superhero Science | |
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Download Lesson Plan Elementary School Activity: Students learn about the hormone adrenaline what is the science behind real-life superheroes. Next students solve puzzles and an answer key is provided. Last students write a bibliography about a superhero from a book. More... |
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Published by Library Sparks
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Elementary School
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T Cells Fight the Flu! | |
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Download Lesson Plan Elementary School Activity: Partnered students work on a webquest and use Internet resources to learn about the cell-mediated immune response. Once students have filled in the online worksheet, that can print it with their answers. Last, the groups create a comic strip explaining visually what they learned about the immune response. More... |
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Published by Diane Findlay
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Elementary School
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The Great Fossil Find | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students are taken on an imaginary fossil hunt. Following a script read by the teacher, students "find" (remove from envelope) paper "fossils" of some unknown creature, only a few at a time. Each time, they attempt to reconstruct the creature, and each time their interpretation tends to change as new pieces are "found". This lesson is great for students to understand that science is tentative and as new evidence is revealed, ideas may change. More... |
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Published by Steve Randak and Michael Kimmel
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High School
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Say it with DNA | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: This activity uses the metaphor of decoding a secret message for the Protein Synthesis.process. Students teach themselves the sequence of DNA-Translation (DNA-mRNA-tRNA-protein), and practice with DNA codes which translate into amino acid sequences spelling out meaningful sentences in English! This activity provides practice in base-pair matching and following the sequence as performed by cells. Further practice is provided by requesting students to create new DNA messages which can be "decoded biologically" by others. More... |
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Published by Larry Flammer
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High School
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Peppered Moth Simulation | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students will simulate how predators locate prey in different environments using forceps, newspaper and colored papers. Students will analyze how color affects an organism's ability to survive in certain environments. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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Natural Selection Simulation | |
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students model natural selection by using tools such as spoons to "capture" beans and determine the best adaptations for survival. More... |
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Published by Shannan Muskopf
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High School
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Monstrous Mutations | |
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Download Lesson Plan Middle School Activity: Each student will simulate an animal that can only digest peanuts as its food source. Unfortunately, random mutations have produced some unusual characteristics in recent offspring. Each group will find out what mutation they represent by selecting a letter from the paper bag the teacher has provided. More... |
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Published by Pamela S. Moy
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Middle School
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Evolution by Natural Selection | |
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Download Student Handout Download Teacher Notes High School Activity: Principles of natural selection are demonstrated by a simulation involving different color pompoms on different color and texture habitats and student feeders equipped with different types of feeding implement. Students learn how different adaptations contribute to differences in survival and reproductive success, which results in changing frequencies of genotypes in the populations. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students learn the structure of the Linnaeus’s classification system and the order of the levels. Topics include kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus and species. More... |
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High School
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Download Lesson Plan High School Activity: Great visual and kinesthetic activity for high school students to learn transcription and translation. Students get to experience transcribing DNA code into mRNA, translating mRNA codons tRNA's anti-codons on the ribosome A site and building polypeptide chain on the P site. All materials required for the activity are included in this lesson including a picture of a ribosome, tRNA structure, peptide bonds, DNA structure, and more. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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