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7th grade Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa basic principles simulations
Survival Games: An Fun, Adaptations-Based Challenge for the Evolution Unit
Explore the theory of evolution with your students as they create a creature that can survive a changing environment!Students will select from thirty two different adaptations, all with different survival perks, in order to design an organism that can (hopefully) survive drastic environment changes. In a Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque style, each adaptation provides points in certain categories of survival. My students become quickly enthralled with the challenge of picking just the right combinatio
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6th - 9th
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Also included in: Biology Activities & Worksheets Bundle
Virtual Density Lab
Students use PhET Sim to explore density in an inquiry based lab. Check out the Sim here:: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/density/latest/density_en.html?fbclid=IwAR09bUeRxx_DckEweccfg2_1DozdustsrS4RJYOtwDkaHwiyJ6RDzLTofPIThis lab first walks students through finding volume through water displacement. Then students explore densities of different materials with the same mass but different volume, same volume but different mass, and then same density but different masses and volumes. Finally
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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NGSS:
MS-ESS2-1
, MS-PS1-2
, MS-ESS2-5
Also included in: Weather Activity Bundle
STEM Lab Activity Balloon Rockets - Newton's Third Law of Motion
Students will experiment with balloon rockets to observe and study Newton's Third Law of Motion and the principles of rocket propulsion. Students will collect, analyze, and graph data from the launches in this STEM lab activity.
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K - 12th
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Test My Genes Lab: Students Use Their Traits to Practice Punnett Squares - NGSS
In Brief: The lab proceeds as follows1. Students complete a short matching section using important genetics terms2. Students read about five different human traits (Interlacing of fingers, PTC tasting, Presence of Palmaris Longus Muscle, Hair Texture, and Color Vision)3. Students attempt to determine their genotpyes, based upon their phenotypes, and the information in the lab.4. Students perform Punnett Squares using their genotypes, in order to make predictions about future generationsA. NEXT
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Grades:
7th - 12th
CELLS & Compound Light Microscopes Virtual Lab/Simulation (Digital/Printable)
Looking for a virtual lab alternative for your introductory lab on the use of a compound light microscope and types of cells? Or do you need an alternative makeup lab for students who were absent? This virtual lab is interactive as students manipulate a virtual microscope and view specimens via the virtual eyepiece. Comprehension questions are included. Note: It is recommended that students have an understanding of prokaryote and eukaryote cells prior to completing this lab. Due to the web-based
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Cell Structure and Function BUNDLE
Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
Get BOTH of my Christmas Digital Escape Rooms that are NO PREP for a discount when you buy the bundle. These escape rooms will give your students the fun experience of helping Santa be ready for Christmas Eve in the North Pole AND a scavenger hunt at a school's Holiday Jubilee! The North Pole Escape Room has 12 ELA skill-based challenges and 12 tasks to complete. The Holiday Jubilee Escape Room has 14 ELA skill-based challenges and 22 tasks! These are both all digital and are done in Google F
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5th - 8th
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Social Skills Task Cards | Winter Break | Winter Holiday | Conversation
Do your kids struggle with conversations? Want to prepare them for coversations and social situations they may experience over their winter break? These Winter Break/Christmas Social Skills Task Cards have 64 task cards that will help your students practice how to enter and maintain conversations dealing with Christmas, New Years, holidays and winter break, problem solve difficult situations that might arise, practice body language and wording of answers for situations, and talk about what the
Grades:
4th - 10th
Also included in: Social Skills Task Card Bundle
DNA Fingerprinting-Gel Electrophoresis "paper lab"!
Absolutely no prep! Just print and go! This activity will teach students why and how gel electrophoresis is used. Students will also analyze a gel or "DNA fingerprint" and help to solve a crime! This is a great product for a Biotech unit if you do not have the equipment to run an actual gel or use as a fun pre-lab! Used by thousands of students!
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6th - 12th
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Christmas Traditions History Holiday Activity CSI Mystery of History Analysis
Explore the history of Christmas and Christmas holiday traditions from around the world! Your students will explore leading theories about the history of Christmas traditions with this festive crime scene investigation activity that encourages engagement and original thinking!A visually engaging case file is provided with comprehensive background readings on the history of Christmas and its traditions. Leading theories about the making of modern Christmas traditions are provided, spanning from R
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5th - 10th
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Evolution by Natural Selection Interactive Tutorial
First off, this is NOT a typical PowerPoint that simply lists main idea bullets. This is an interactive tutorial using engaging pictures, animations, and questions that require student input in order to proceed. This tutorial will guide students through the process of evolution by natural selection. The tutorial begins by taking readers through an introduction of Charles Darwin and his voyage on-board the HMS Beagle. Next, the tutorial will guide students thought the principles of natural select
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6th - 12th
PhET Forces and Motion Webquest
Access a free PhET simulation and allow students to work independently in discovering the effects of forces on objects.
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5th - 8th
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Winter Holidays Christmas Around the World Music Traditions Activity Lesson
Explore winter holiday and Christmas music culture and traditions from around the world! This activity will take your students on an engaging tour of diverse winter holiday and Christmas music customs, and learn about the global instruments used in traditional holiday music!Your students will learn about diverse music holiday traditions that are celebrated around the world, and journey to ten notable countries. This activity is a perfect way to promote cultural diversity around the holidays! St
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3rd - 8th
Proper Microscope Drawings PowerPoint
This PowerPoint provides expectations and examples of proper scientific drawings when making microscope observation. This is NOT a simple main idea/bullet point slide show. This is a multimedia presentation filled with engaging images and animations to better assist with learning.Better yet! You can preview the entire PowerPoint prior to purchase on my YouTube channel. If purchased, the PowerPoint will NOT be narrated. However, all else remains as appears in the YouTube video.Preview on YouTube
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Google Slides - Evolution unit - adaptation, variation, evidence and graphing
6 consecutive lessons with activities!Independent work, partner work, group work, whole class.Summative and formal assessmentsStudents will be able to construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughou
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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NGSS:
MS-LS4-3
, MS-LS4-1
, MS-LS4-2
, MS-LS4-5
, MS-LS4-4
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What is in the Sky? A Nature of Science Modern Mystery of Social Media and Bias!
Have your students embark on this modern mystery where they are challenged to identify examples of bias found in social media! This activity, based on true events, begins when several people spot an unknown object in the sky above a tornado ravaged city in Ohio. Cell phone-armed citizens begin taking pictures of the object before sending them to the local weatherman for answers. Ten eyewitnesses debate their inferences regarding the object's identity until the sun sets and they are left with no
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6th - 9th
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Forensic Science Christmas Activity Crime Scene Investigation & Fat Analysis
Looking for a FUN Forensic Science Christmas Activity? This public-school, low-prep activity is EASY to set up and FUN for students! Students will use brown paper bags to investigate the fat content of cookies. This information will be used to solve a holiday mystery. Then, students will examine motives for each suspect in the mystery and write a short article. Your students will love this Holiday-themed, engaging FUN FORENSICS activity... NO ONE DIES! This activity aligns with Next Generation S
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5th - 10th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, 5-PS1-3
Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room NO PREP! Escape to Winter Break
This digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key ELA skills while being a completely NO PREP activity for you!This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be participating in a scavenger hunt at their school's Holiday Jubilee in hopes of not only winning, but also escaping to winter break. Students will have to solve 22 clues and complete 14 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the next section and finish the scavenger hunt. This will keep stu
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5th - 8th
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Also included in: Christmas DIGITAL Escape Room BUNDLE No Prep!
Lab Periodic Table Activity Simulation: Alien Element Organization
This is a comprehensive Periodic Table Lab Activity Simulation for students. There are 3 documents:
1) Lab Introduction Document with Questions and setting the context to examine unknown elements from the Planet Pumpernickel
2) 9 page flash cards of unknown alien elements that have element properties of atomic radius, electronegativity, ionization energy, conductivity, electron configuration, etc.
3) Answer Key for the most consistent element arrangement
I found this to be most successful when
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Grades:
6th - 11th
Forensic Science Crime Scene Investigation Middle School Holiday Lesson Plans
Forensic Science Activities are a fun, yet educational, way to celebrate holidays without sacrificing instruction time in Middle School. This collection of forensic science crime scene investigation (CSI) activities includes 4 engaging laboratory activities that infuse the excitement of holidays with the intrigue of forensic science. Each activity is specifically designed for 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade and provides a unique opportunity for students to apply forensic science techniques in a fun
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5th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, 5-PS1-3
, HS-LS3-1
, MS-LS1-1
Sex-Linked Inheritance Interactive Tutorial and Punnett Squares
Genetics is at the heart of modern biology. This tutorial will guide students through the sex-linked inheritance (X-linked recessive) pattern. The tutorial begins with a review of Mendelian genetics and then proceeds into the rules and patterns of X-linked inheritance. Along the way, students will meet 3 fictional families, each with a different history of a sex-linked disorder. Students will guide the families through genetic counseling and reveal the likelihood that each couple could pass on t
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7th - 12th
Rock Cycle Game Connect 4
Rock Cycle Connect 4 Game includes a diagram of the rock cycle, a detailed lesson plan with suggested pre-game activities and a preparation checklist, tokens for each player, a familiar looking gameboard, a visual example of gameplay and easy to follow game instructions.Field tested with sixth-graders, this game challenges students to think of the rock cycle in terms of states of matter and geologic processes. It helps students to break misconceptions of the rock cycle as a predetermined order r
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Earth Science Games Bundle
Engineering Design Process PPTX
This PowerPoint reviews the students on the basics of the Engineering Design Process. It will answer two basic questions. What is the engineering design process? What are the different steps of the process? It also goes into the different ways that these steps can be implemented.
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6th - 12th
Choose your Own Path: Observation and Inference
Use this self paced, choose your own adventure style, observation and inference "story" to support students understanding. This can be used in both middle school and high school as you talk about the scientific method. There is a story embedded in the slides that students uncover one word at a time. Each student chooses their own path which eventually leads to an amazing class discussion about gathering evidence and drawing conclusions. Included is an editable slide deck, a published version
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6th - 10th
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Water Cycle Game Connect 4
Water Cycle Connect 4 includes a diagram of the water cycle, a detailed lesson plan with suggested pre-game activities and a preparation checklist, tokens for each player, a familiar looking gameboard, a visual example of gameplay and easy to follow game instructions.Field tested with sixth-graders, this game challenges students to think of the water cycle in terms of water stores and water flows. It helps students to break misconceptions of the water cycle as a simple process involving only eva
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5th - 9th
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Also included in: Earth Science Games Bundle
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