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Martin Luther King Day basic principles research for Microsoft Word
Genetics and Heredity Webquest
**It is important to note that flash is required for one or more of the activities!**Great for Distance Learning and Remote LearningIn this self-directed and interactive webquest, students explore the world of genetic and heredity. Students begin with explorations of "what makes you you and me me" - the basics of genetics and inheritance. They move on to choose personal genetic explorations from a host of options, which differentiates to their personal interests. The choices are all real-life r
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5th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-LS3-1
, MS-LS3-2
Genetic Mutation webquest (NO PREP REQUIRED!)
Students will be exploring the different types of genetic mutations. Students will learn that mutations can be caused by mistakes, genetics, or external factors. The webquest has helpful links to help students explore grade level information.Standards covered:MS-LS3-1
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6th - 9th
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MS-LS3-1
Severe Weather: Storms Reading Comprehensions
This is a collection of five severe weather storm reading comprehensions: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, Winter Storms and Floods. The articles are written in friendly and engaging language. Each article is a little more than a page long and includes standards-aligned comprehension and analyses questions. Each article also includes a diagram of how the storm forms and of the storm in action. The article can be used for literacy groups, individual DEAR or homework reinforcement. I also l
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5th - 9th
Waves! A Webquest
I use this as an introduction to a unit on waves and wave energy. It introduces students to the two types of waves (transverse and Compression) and takes them on a tour of websites that helps them to understand wave characteristics and also subtopics such as sound waves, light waves, and EM waves. It serves to give students some background to what a wave is, and different forms of wave energy.
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6th - 9th
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Fun Solar System Planet Research Project
Can your students sell a planet?! Sure they can, and they will once you assign this purposeful, creative project. Small groups of students will research one of the planets in our solar system. The group's mission is to SELL SELL SELL their planet to the class through an oral presentation and creating a visual component to support their presentation. We all know that facts alone can be useless, but knowing how to SELL the facts can be fun, entertaining and educational! Groups can create broc
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5th - 8th
Branches of Science STEAM Careers Handout
Use this handout with "Branches of Science and STEAM Career Project Ppt" to teach your students about what science is, branches of science, and steam careers. Great way to introduce science to a middle school/late elementary school crowd. Handout has introduction to science and branches of science guided notes, "where's the science" turn and talk, and internet research project directions. Message me for the rubric for the project!
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2nd - 12th
Lab Report Template MIDDLE SCHOOL and HIGH SCHOOL Science
This is a lab template that is great for students 6th through 12th grade for all science investigations. The template guides students in making a lab report that is professional and accurate with the appropriate items in the appropriate sections. I have my 7th graders use this template and while it is challenging in the beginning of the year, but 8th grade they have it down, If you wanted to simplify it for your sped students, just remove some of the information. I have labs and activities for m
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6th - 12th
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A Study on the Origins of Life
A booklet describing the many beliefs on how life began. Includes scientific, faith-based, and science/faith perspectives:
Ancient Egyptian Hindu
Australian Aborigine Intelligent Design
Bakuba Islam
Chinese Japanese
Christianity Judaism
Evolutionary Creationism Quiche Mayan
Big Bang/Evolutionism
* Followed by a word and picture dictionary
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7th - 10th
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Cell City Project
This is a project that teaches students the structure and function of the parts of an animal or plant cell by comparing the organelles to different parts of a city. It is a take home project. It is a three page document.
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6th - 10th
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Black History and Science Middle and High School Science
Celebrate Black History with your Middle and High School Students! This bundle will teach your students about the many wonderful contributions of Black Scientists. This bundle contains four resources to help you celebrate Black History Month with your students The first product is building an entire wall of the Black History Periodic Table Chemistry and History Grades The product is also a terrific resource for the Home School EnvironmentMaterialsColored PaperTape Each element has a differen
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8th - 11th
Crazy Cubes: A Lesson for Introducing Scientific Method Properties of Matter
I have created an activity that would be great to use at the beginning of the year to introduce the scientific method. My team and I (third grade) started out the year teaching our students the vocabulary and procedure for the scientific method so that, by the time science projects were due, the students would already be familiar with it. It is also a great lesson to use when talking about the properties of matter. It involves using different types of liquids (mainly water and alcohol) to see
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2nd - 4th
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Fortune Teller Fish Lab
This is a lab investigation in which students must develop their reasoning on why a Fortune Teller Fish behaves the way it does. The lab activity requires students to develop their own hypothesis, design their own experiment, and evaluate their results. The students also have the opportunity to evaluate and discuss how they could have improved their experiment. Great introductory lab to experimental design! Includes teacher notes.
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7th - 11th
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Jobs that Impact- Science-based Career Research Project
In this project students will learn how jobs may impact the environment both positively and negatively. They will choose a job that interests them from the list or they may come up with your own. They have to then conduct research on their job to answer questions about their job's responsibilities. It combines learning objects for natural resources and environmental impacts. Students can do a powerpoint or essay for their final product.
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4th - 6th
Genetic Inheritance Virtual Lab
Virtual online lab discussing Mendel, his experiments with peas and the Punnet Square. This is geared toward middle school and helps students understand how Mendel figured out genotypes, phenotypes and alleles.
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6th - 8th
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Population dynamics lab using aquatic models - AP level pt 5
In this lab, students explore how wildlife management vs nonmanagement, directly impacted the resulting population dynamics of the next generation within the aquatic ecosystems. Detailed analysis of the dynamics deepens the understanding of the content. This lab directly helps students answer the free response portion of the AP Exam.
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11th - 12th, Higher Education
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Also included in:Â Aquatic Ecosystem Model 10 Lab Bundle
Natural Disasters Unit Project
Students will be working in groups to create a PowerPoint presentation on a specific natural disaster (Tornado, Hurricane, Tsunami, Volcano, or Earthquake).
Each group will decide how they want to split up the work evenly. The following steps should be taken in order to include all of the information:
1. Title Slide with your Natural Disaster
2. Research a couple Historical Events with your natural disasters.
3. Scientific research of how your disaster happened.
4. Three-Part Planning an
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6th - 7th
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: HeLa Cells
Use this worksheet to stimulate a student's interest by reading and writing. This paper consists of a short article on HeLa cells along with a link to a video. Students can work individually or together to generate ideas in answering the questions on the worksheet along with learning and/or reviewing science vocabulary Use it as an in-class assignment or for homework.
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6th - 12th
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AP Biology End of Course Project - Science Fair Experiment!
After the AP Exam in May, students will enjoy having some freedom for authentic inquiry. In this end-of-course project, your class will be working cooperatively to research, conduct and analyze a research topic of their choice. The project includes a presentation to the class. I have my students display their work on a tri-fold posterboard and on presentation day, we set the boards up similar to a science fair. This download includes project details and more importantly, the grading checklis
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Science Vocabulary Glossary
This is a 20 page visual glossary for all sixth grade science vocabulary terms. I also teach an honors course so some seventh grade terms are in the glossary as well. It's a great dictionary and visual resource for the students to use in the classroom.
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5th - 7th
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What is Your Heritage?
This organizer provides an excellent social studies homework assignment prior to lesson on the ethnic and cultural make up of the U.S. population. It provides a framework for students to research their own background through family interviews to discover what continents, countries, states, cities, towns, etc. their family originates.
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5th - 8th
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Climate Research Project
This is a guided research project in which students are given a job description (that can be used as a rubric). The job titles include news reporter, climate expert, environmentalist, and global climate change expert. Although the research questions and tasks are general, they can be easily adapted to follow a textbook or websites to create a webquest. At the end of the project, students are asked to make a news broadcast presentation to share their findings.
The resources also include a pr
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Grades:
7th - 9th
Sponge Filtration Lab
This resource was created for a high school zoology course, and allows students to discover the roles sponges play in maintaining a clean and healthy ecosystem. This easy to set up, low cost lab can easily be modified for other science content courses to allow students to practice with the scientific method, experiment design, and data collection. This lab could easily be used in an environmental course, biology, or ecology and is a great way to spark conversation over the importance of maintain
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6th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-LS2-7
, HS-ESS3-6
NATURE OF RESEARCH and INQUIRY MODULE (Lesson 1-4) --Editable
This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner. The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you rea
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Grades:
8th - 12th
1st grade Science Inquiry: Sink or Float
This is a worksheet that I created for an experiment. The students have to make predictions on the worksheet and once they have finished, the teacher should show all of the items in a tub of water for all to see whether or not the item will sink or float. :)
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K - 2nd
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