Spread of an Infectious Disease and Population Growth | |
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Student Handout Teacher Notes High School Activity: A simple simulation demonstrates exponential spread of infectious disease in a population, and discussion questions develop student understanding of how human diseases spread. Additional discussion questions and a graphing activity develop an understanding of exponential and logistic population growth. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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Jeopardy PowerPoint: Photosynthesis / Cell Respiration / Enzymes / Light | |
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Lesson Plan High School Activity: A PowerPoint Jeopardy-like game that can be used as a review of biology concepts. More... |
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Published by Aubrey Melton
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High School
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Animal Survival | |
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Lesson Plan Elementary School Activity: The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate to the class that it is not cruel or unfair when animals die. It is only natural that the strongest of each species survive while the weak perish. More... |
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Published by Jeffrey Kimber
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Elementary School
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endocytosis_activity.pdf Lesson Plan High School Activity: Students try to figure out how to put food molecules into a paper bag without exposing the inside of the bag. Topics covered endocytosis and phagocytosis More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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Endocytosis Activity
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double_helix_activity.pdf High School Activity: Students learn about DNA nucleotides, base paring, and super coiling by building a classroom size double helix. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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cellular_respiration_activity.pdf High School Activity: Students learn the chemistry behind cellular respiration by acting out the steps of oxidative respiration including glycolysis, Acetyl Co-A, Krebs cycle, and the electron transport chain. Great kinesthetic activity. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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photosynthesis_activity.pdf photosynthesis_activity_hs_espanol.pdf High School Activity: Students learn the chemical formula for photosynthesis by acting out plant's photosynthetic process including photosystem 2, photosystem 1, and the Calvin cycle. Great visual and kinesthetic activity. More... |
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Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
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High School
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protein_synthesis_polypeptide_activity.pdf 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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Peppered Moth Simulation | |
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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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What Happens When You Eat? | |
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Lesson Plan High School Activity: These six activities will enhance the student's knowledge of what organs aid in digestion and how digestion occurs in the human body. Students will have a more comprehensive understanding of what happens in their bodies when they eat. More... |
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Published by Kelly Ludwig
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High School
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From Gene to Protein - Transcription and Translation | |
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Student Handout Teacher Notes High School Activity: Students learn how a gene provides the instructions for making a protein, and how the gene for sickle cell hemoglobin results in sickle cell anemia. Simple paper models are used to help students learn the basic molecular biology of transcription and translation. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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Dragon Genetics—Principles of Mendelian Genetics | |
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Student Handout Teacher Notes High School Activity: Students learn the principles of Mendelian genetics by using Popsicle sticks, each of which represents a pair of homologous chromosomes with multiple genetic traits. Pairs of students use their sets of Popsicle sticks to represent a mating and then identify the genetic makeup and phenotypic traits of the resulting baby dragon. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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Dragon Genetics—Independent Assortment and Gene Linkage | |
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Student Handout Teacher Notes High School Activity: Students learn the principles of independent assortment and gene linkage in activities which analyze inheritance of multiple genes on the same or different chromosomes in hypothetical dragons. Students learn how these principles derive from the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis and fertilization. More... |
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Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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High School
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How to Take a Pulse! | |
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Lesson Plan Elementary School Activity: An hour long lesson plan on teaching 5th graders about where to find their pulse and how to take their pulse rate. More... |
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Published by Amy Schwenk and Kristi Schulz
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Elementary School
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Animal Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks | |
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Lesson Plan Middle School Activity: Students explore how the shape of a bird's beak is best adapted in relation to their food source. This activity provides 8 challenges for students to support or clarify whether or not they proved or disproved their predictions on which "beak" matched with a given food supply. Students will also invent a bird beak to show conceptual understanding of beak shape and its relation to their food supply. More... |
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Published by Kat Plass and Allison Field
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Middle School
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