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Elementary biology simulations $5-10
CELLS CSI Investigation - Examining Plant and Animal Cells
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In this lesson, students will be given a mystery to solve, based on their knowledge of cells. To solve the mystery, they need to know the major differences between plant and animal cells. Students apply their knowledge to a "real-life" scenario in which they must classify cells as plant or animal. Students will record their conclusions in a forensic lab report similar to one that could be used in court. This is an excellent activity for the end of a unit on plant and animal ce
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4th - 7th
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Genetics and Heredity Lab: Celebrity Babies and Punnett Squares!
Come let's explore the world of genetics by creating Celebrity Babies! Students will use Punnett Squares and the concepts of heredity to become genetic counselors for some of the most popular celebrity couples of today! Included in this activity is: 1. Student Lab Worksheet2. Teachers' Guide3. Baby Templates4. Celebrity Couples (w/simulated genotypes)*Updated December 2022- New Celebrity Couples! 32 Celebrity Couples! Students LOVE this activity and will definitely leave your classroom with a
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
, HS-LS3-1
Introduction to Cells Virtual Lab Bundle
Get over 30% off each lab with the Introduction to Cells Virtual Lab Bundle! These four interactive lab assignments will help your students understand Living vs Nonliving Things, Cell Size, Cell Types, and Cell Organelles. Students will learn:Living or Nonliving?⚗️Test their pre-existing knowledge of the Characteristics of Life⚗️Compare and Contrast Living and Nonliving Things⚗️Label Items such as Feathers, Atoms, Bacteria, and Milk as Alive or Not Alive⚗️Explain why Viruses are not Living Thing
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Grades:
5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS1-1
, MS-PS1-1
4th Grade Science: Animal Structures (NGSS Aligned)
This unit was designed specifically to address NGSS 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support, survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction. This unit is appropriate for grades 3-5. Upper Elementary students learn about the structures animals have to help them with nutrition, self-defense, reproduction, and communication. Activities include:Activity 1: Animal Structures Sort: This introductory activity gets students fo
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
4-LS1-1
Also included in: 4th Grade Science Plant and Animal Structures Bundle (NGSS Aligned)
Competition for Biotic & Abiotic Factors Stamp & Dice Game
If you have played the Traveling Nitrogen Activity found at: http://www.windows2universe.org/teacher_resources/nitrogen_activity.pdf this game is exactly like that but modified for biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem.
Students will travel as a white-tailed deer to different lab stations to simulate competition for abiotic and biotic factors in an ecosystem.
Directions (from actual worksheet):
1. Pick a start location….DO NOT sta
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Grades:
PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Interactions Within Ecosystems - a complete science unit
Interactions Within Ecosystems is a comprehensive science unit for middle years students with very little prep required by teachers. It is completely laid out with teacher notes and a sequence of activities. Students will learn about many ways in which organisms interact within an ecosystem. In this unit, students will learn about the following science concepts: organisms, biotic and abiotic things, individuals, populations, communities, species, interaction, habitats, ecosystems, microorganis
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Grades:
5th - 8th
4th Grade Science: Natural Resources (NGSS Aligned)
This unit is designed to help students gain a solid understanding of natural resources and what they can do as responsible citizens to conserve non-renewable resources. This unit was developed to address NGSS 4:ESS3-1. It's appropriate for grades 3-6.If you are looking for a digital version of this product click here.Here's what's included in this unit:Activity 1: What is a Natural Resource?: Students watch an introductory video and then find natural resources within their own classroom. •Acti
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
NGSS:
4-ESS3-1
Also included in: 4th Grade Science -NGSS- Entire Year Bundle
Crime Scene DNA Fingerprinting Lab with Key for Bar Codes
This is one of my favorite activities! The students really have a lot of fun with this lesson. After a brief talk about how the DNA in each of us is different, I relate that to how each food item has a different bar code as well. I use bar codes (DNA samples) and place them around my room on various objects. The students have to match the DNA sample (bar code) with the bar codes on their paper to see which perpetrator was at that particular crime scene. You can change the names on the bar code s
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4th - 10th
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Cells - Cell Size Lab PowerPoint & Handouts
Cells - Cell Size Diffusion and Math Lab Why are cells so small? This integrated math lab allows students to experiment with various "cell" sizes to determine the ideal cell size. Lab activity includes lots of measurements and calculations to demonstrate why the ratio of surface area to volume is so important with respect to cells. Great demonstration lab or a challenging individual or group lab for higher level learners and differentiated grouping.• DIGITAL GOOGLE CLASSROOM links to all items
Grades:
5th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS1-1
Also included in: Cell Processes - PowerPoint & Notes, Labs, Activities, & Projects
Hybrid Genetics Card Match-Up Activity
Want a fun, hands-on way to teach the genetics concepts of selective breeding and hybridization in your middle school science class? Then this hybrid activity is the perfect "match" for you! Get your students thinking critically about the advantages and disadvantages of selective breeding and how the creation of hybrids impacts evolution. **Use of this resource does require prior knowledge of selective breeding and hybridization. Used alone, in pairs, or in small groups, these hybrid matching fl
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Grades:
5th - 10th
NGSS:
MS-LS3-2
Making Poop! Modeling the Digestive System Lab (Digestive System Model)
Get ready to be thoroughly grossed out with your students! This lab will have you modeling the process of digestion and it's a lab your students won't forget. This resource includes colorful directions for each station and two editable student labs : one for printing and one for digital learning management systems. The required materials are easy to find : water, graham crackers, bananas, small plastic bag, big plastic bag, paper towels, and a funnel.
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Grades:
5th - 10th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, MS-LS1-3
Also included in: Human Body Systems Activities Mega Bundle!
Inherited Traits │ Heredity │ Dominant and Recessive Coin Flip Activity │Monster
Looking for an interactive and enjoyable way to help your students truly understand inherited, dominant, and recessive traits? This low prep, printable and digital Create a Monster activity will do the trick! Students will flip 2 coins to decide if their baby monster will inherit a dominant trait or recessive trait from their parents. This pack includes everything you need for each student to create their own baby monster to be compared to the mom and dad monster. These make an amazing hallw
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Grades:
4th - 6th
Build a Digital Plant and Animal Cell Bundle | Organelle | Eukaryotes Activity
Build your own cell activities!Time for some interactive fun! These activities allow students to drag and drop organelles to build their very own animal and plant cell. A plant and animal cell presentation are linked within the activities that teach students the function of each organelle. Simple analogies are used to ensure that students can relate and understand organelle functions. This assignment was created for both elementary students and middle school as there are differentiated activitie
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Grades:
3rd - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS1-3
, MS-LS1-1
Marco Polo and the Silk Road Lapbook and Classroom Simulation
Your class will travel the Silk Road with Marco Polo the explorer. They will learn the route, the customs of the countries, and about all of the trade goods that changed the ancient world. Your class will become traders in the various goods that Marco Polo brought back from his extensive travels. Students will set up trading tables and sell or barter their own products.
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4th - 8th
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Summer Camp In The Classroom: Cross Curricular Lesson Plans
Summer Camp in the Classroom is a simulation in which you transform your classroom into a campground. It has many computer related and non-computer related activities.
Students will work with team mates to select a campsite and map a route. They will participate as a team in learning about:local wildlife; fishing regulations; constellations; campfire cooking; plant, insect, weather, and water safety; using an obstacle course.
Campers will keep logs and scrapbooks while engaging in reading, writ
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Grades:
2nd - 8th
Biomolecule Build Bundle! Physical Model, Cut & Paste, and Digital
This bundle includes all three of our Biomolecule Build activities so you can scaffold to your students preferred methods of learning!Included are the physical model, cut and paste model with questions, and the fully digital Google Slides version.Minimal prep is needed and answer keys included!
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Grades:
5th - 12th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
Fossils & Fossil Evidence Mini Bundle Reading & Digital Lab
Overview:Have you been digging around for something new to teach fossils and fossil evidence? Look no further, this fossils mini bundle is exactly what you need to excite your students when learning about fossils! Complete with a reading passage and digital excavation lab, your students will be instantly engaged.Why You'll Love It:Print-and-go/download-and-goDetailed graphics help build connectionsAwesome sub planWritten with students in mindStudents Will:Reading Passage:Read a passage about fos
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Grades:
3rd - 5th
NGSS:
3-LS4-1
Natural Selection Lab & Mitosis and Meiosis Card Sort Bundle
Are you wanting engaging (and edible) resources to teach natural selection and mitosis and meiosis? This bundle with give you both a lab and card sort that do just that. #1 Natural Selection Lab: This resources asks students to use skittles that represent beetles and the students then act as birds/predators to simulate the process of natural selection. It includes experiment directions, a data sheet, and post lab questions. #2 Mitosis & Meiosis Card Sort: This resource will challenge your st
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Grades:
5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS3-2
, MS-LS4-2
, MS-LS4-6
The 5 senses and the nervous system
This resource is an EXE file containing interactive simulators that will help teachers explain science content.Teachers, use our interactive simulators in your lessons, improve performance and increase student engagement.This file will run until 31/12/2024Contact: +55 2197226-4519
Grades:
5th - 12th
Alien Genetics-- Punnett Squares, Complete, Incomplete, Co-dominance
Alien GeneticsEssential question: Can the phenotype of an offspring be determined if only the parent’s traits (phenotype) are known? Using the alien genetics cards, 12 sets of “alien” parents were created. Students work in pairs using these cards to create the 5-person alien family (2 parents and 3 offspring).Each alien parent in the pair passes one allele for each trait to the offspring. I have students randomly shuffle their 2 alleles and on the count of 3 pick one. They then use this combin
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Best Ever Bird Beak Lesson
Students will enjoy participating in this engaging exploration that helps them understand the diversity of the animal kingdom and the concept of adaptation. They will mimic the feeding habits of birds with various types of beaks to learn how species have adapted to their environments. Options allow the lesson to be extended through the grade levels from primary to middle school and into math, technology, and engineering for a full S.T.E.M. experience.
Grades:
K - 6th
NGSS:
3-LS4-3
, 3-LS3-2
, 3-LS3-1
, MS-LS4-6
Cell differences Science stations (online, group collaboration, teacher-led)
Cell differences science stations comparing plant and animal cells. This Cell differences blended learning rotation station for plant and animal cells incorporates an online simulation station, group collaboration station, and a teacher-led station. You can do all three cell differences stations or pick and choose the stations you want your students to investigate. No matter which station they choose they all will help students understand the similarities and differences between plant and animal
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Levels of Ecosystems Bundle - Life-Sized Sort, SlideShow, Student Notes, Poster
This bundle combines a two-part lesson, along with a colorful poster. Show the brief SlideShow as students follow along, filling in the levels of Ecosystems graphic organizer. Students demonstrate their understanding with a life-sized ecosystem sort.
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Grades:
5th - 8th
Bobby Guts Full Set
This interactive model allows students to take apart and put together organs from the digestive, respiratory and circulatory system. "Bobby Guts" is meant to be a pre and post curriculum activity that helps students understand the interconnectedness of these organ systems.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
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