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Biology - Potential Final Exam Questions, Answers, and Explanations

By Colorado Science Guru

Need to save some time on writing an assessment in the biology courses you teach? This document includes several dozen multiple choice questions relating to all of the standard units in a high school biology course: biomolecules, cells, ecology,

Subjects:

Science, Biology, General Science

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Biology - Assessment Questions Relating to HHMI Instructional Videos

By Colorado Science Guru

These short- or long-answer essay-style questions relate to seven HHMI videos often shown in high school biology and some Earth science courses:The Double HelixThe Making of a TheoryThe Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection and

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Science, Biology, Earth Sciences

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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$20.00

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Biology Book Review Project

By Colorado Science Guru

This Biology Book Review Project can be assigned in any high school biology course or even in a language arts class. It is appropriate for either semester of the academic year, though the assigning instructor may wish to modify expectations as

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English Language Arts, Science, Biology

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Projects, Assessment, Independent Work Packet

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Biology - Evolution Unit Plan

By Colorado Science Guru

This unit plan for a high school biology course unit on evolution includes both an outline of the unit's content and supporting material. There are included details relating to the content of summative and formative assessments, learning activities

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Science, Biology, General Science

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Thematic Unit Plans, Outlines, Professional Documents

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Biology_Case Study - The Evolution of the African Elephant

By Colorado Science Guru

This case study is appropriate for a high school biology, honors biology, or AP Biology course and for a unit on evolution. It includes, in addition to an overview of the life history of the African elephant, suggestions for other resources. The

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Science, Biology, General Science

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities, Handouts

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Physics - Simple Harmonic Motion

By Colorado Science Guru

This handout, which explains simple harmonic motion, includes graphics and formulas. It is appropriate for a high school physics, honors physics, or AP Physics 1 course or for a first college course in algebra-based physics.

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Science, Physics, Physical Science

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Handouts, Outlines

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Physics - Uniform Circular Motion Overview

By Colorado Science Guru

This handout, suitable for a high school physics, honors physics, or AP Physics 1 course, as well as a first college course in algebra-based physics, provides a summary of the concept of uniform circular motion, including useful graphics.

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Science, Physics, Physical Science

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Motion and Forces - Dynamics: Understanding Friction

By Colorado Science Guru

Students in high school physics courses often have initial challenges in understanding how friction works and how to calculate the magnitude of the friction force, the types of friction forces, and the role of the friction coefficient. This handout

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Science, Physics, Physical Science

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Biology_Understanding Evolutionary Patterns - From Extinctions to Coevolution

By Colorado Science Guru

This short handout, which includes a brief summary, is useful for helping high school biology students understand patterns of evolution, including convergent evolution, coevolution, gradualism, and punctuated equilibrium.

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Science, Biology, General Science

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Handouts, Outlines, Printables

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Background - The Metals Activity Series

By Colorado Science Guru

This handout gives students a short reading about the metals activity series, which is introduced in high school chemistry courses when students learn about types of chemical reactions. It includes discussion of practical uses of the activity series.

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Chemistry

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Handouts

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Types of Chemical Reactions - A Survey

By Colorado Science Guru

This short reading handout is useful to help students understand the five main types of chemical reactions covered in a high school chemistry course.

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Chemistry

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9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Handouts

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Genetic Diseases and Disorders: Exploratory Learning Project

By Colorado Science Guru

This project asks students to create a poster or brochure that provides information about a genetic disease. It is designed for exploratory learning in a high school biology course genetics unit. The project is appropriate for AP and non-AP biology

Subjects:

Science, Biology, Other (Science)

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities, Assessment

$18.00

$15.00

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Prehistoric Biodiversity Research Project

By Colorado Science Guru

This project, intended as a capstone for a unit on Earth's geologic time and the history of life on the planet, asks students to write a research paper, prepare a digital presentation and tri-fold poster, and present findings to the class.This

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Projects, Assessment

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Exploratory Learning Activity: Earth's Mass Extinctions

By Colorado Science Guru

This activity is useful in a high school biology or Earth and space science course. Students are asked to perform Internet-based research, either alone or with a partner, to explore the previous mass extinctions on Earth and their causes and

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Internet Activities, Independent Work Packet

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RST.9-10.1, RST.9-10.2, RST.9-10.4, RST.9-10.8, RST.11-12.1, RST.11-12.2, RST.11-12.4, RST.11-12.5, RST.11-12.6, RST.11-12.7, RST.11-12.8...

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APUSH Book Report Project

By Colorado Science Guru

This is a book review project that can be assigned early (first week) of the fall semester to AP U.S. History students. It is conceived to be done over a six-week period and to focus on Period 1 (1754-1800) of the APUSH sequence. The package

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U.S. History

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities

$15.00

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Vacation Poster Project: Calculating Distance and Displacement

By Colorado Science Guru

This project assignment, which can be done individually or in small groups, asks students to plan an itinerary for a vacation to one of 23 regions in North America. The goal is for students to demonstrate, as a summative exercise, their

Subjects:

Physics, Physical Science

Grades:

7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Adult Education, Homeschool

Types:

Projects, Activities, Internet Activities

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Science Article Summary Assignment

By Colorado Science Guru

This assignment, useful for any middle- or high school science class, asks students to summarize an article from a newspaper or magazine (online or in print) either chosen by the student or selected by the instructor.

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities, Homework

$6.00

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AP U.S. History - Oral History Project, 1960s and 1970s

By Colorado Science Guru

This is a project assignment suitable for the AP U.S. history unit that is covered late in the spring semester. Students can be assigned to work on it in pairs, if desired.

Subjects:

U.S. History

Grades:

10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Homeschool

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Projects, Activities, Homework

$10.00

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CHEMISTRY: Physical Changes and Chemical Changes - Review and Practice

By Colorado Science Guru

This is a review and practice assignment useful in the early stages of a high school chemistry course, when instructors often are teaching about the difference between physical changes in a substance and chemical changes.

Subjects:

Chemistry, Physical Science

Grades:

9^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, Higher Education, Homeschool

Types:

Activities, Assessment, Homework

$5.00

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Scientist Biography Project - Instructions

By Colorado Science Guru

These are instructions for a Scientist Biography Project, which is particularly applicable to the Core Knowledge curriculum but which are also totally compatible with a unit on famous scientists included in any middle school or early high school

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Science

Grades:

6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th, 10^th, 11^th, Homeschool

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Projects

$8.00

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