8th grade Halloween environment simulations

Population Ecology Lab Simulation - Modeling Population Growth

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This guided inquiry graphing activity (both printable and digital) involves the student in a study of the growth rate of a rabbit population. The student assumes the role of a scientist to determine the birth rate, mortality rate, growth rate, and total population size of the rabbit population over a 20 year period. The data is plotted on a graph where the student will clearly see the initial exponential growth of the population followed by logistic growth. The activity will reinforce the conce

Subjects:

Simulations, Independent Work Packet

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

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NGSS:

MS-LS2-4

, MS-LS2-1

, HS-LS2-1

, HS-LS2-2

Also included in: Population Ecology Bundle

Would You Survive The Salem Witch Trials?

Created by

Wilson Workshop

NO PREP! Students will simulate what it was like to live in Salem during the time of the Witch Trials. Perfect activity to use during Halloween, after discussing the Witch Trials or Colonial America, or after teaching the Crucible! Google Compatible and includes a Slides-based worksheet for students to follow along! PLEASE NOTE: This activity is designed to do as a whole class, so it will show outcomes for all chosen decisions.If you enjoy the witch trials be sure to check out "Would You Survive

Subjects:

Halloween, Other (Specialty), Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 12th

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The Virtual Biodiversity Game

Created by

Darlene Tieu

Students can use this Google form to make choices that determine how many species survive or go extinct in their ecosystem. Through 5 rounds, students are exposed to concepts such as biodiversity, biomes, climate, niches, pollution, and human impact. Students make choices and can see the impact it has on biodiversity (the number of species)This interactive activity is a great introduction to biodiversity. It is a great tool to get students thinking about what contributes to increased or decrease

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Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-5

, MS-LS2-1

, HS-LS4-6

, MS-ESS3-4

, MS-ESS3-3

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Ecology Lab Estimating Population Size

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Population biologists have developed several methods for sampling a population. In this lab, the student will use the sampling technique known as the "mark and recapture method" to estimate the size of a population of wild beans! Students will compare their estimation of the population size obtained from lab data to the actual population size and calculate their percent error.This lab is very easy to set up and very easy to clean up. No fancy materials are required, and yet, I find this to be

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Grades:

8th - 12th

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Also included in: Biology Lab Bundle - Cells Mitosis Genetics DNA Dichotomous Keys Enzymes

Halloween Science Game Teaching Biodiversity

Created by

Focus Learning Resources

The perfect game for Halloween (or any time of year)!In my classroom, this game not only produced lots of laughs, but provided an excellent illustration of biodiversity within an ecosystem that I referred back to often as an example in later class periods.This game consists of two simulations. Each student during each simulation will have a card with a monster. The teacher lurks about the room as a disease. Some monsters are immune to the disease, and some are not. If implemented well (that mean

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Grades:

5th - 8th

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Speciation Activity: Simulate Evolution of New Species: NGSS: Distance Learning

Created by

Next Gen Sci Guy

In brief, students begin by generating questions based upon experimental results (Powerpoint Slide included). Then, they read about several types of speciation. Then, students simulate speciation within a hypothetical population of frogs, using manipulatives to create a model. Finally, students answer post-activity questions.A. NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS HEREINDCI’s: LS3.B: Variation of traits LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityCross Cutting Concepts: Patter

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Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Holidays/Seasonal

Halloween Escape Room - Digital & ELA Skill-Based!

Created by

Smiling in Sixth

This Halloween digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key English Language Arts skills while be a completely no prep activity for you! This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be a part of a group of friend’s adventure that begins when they accept a dare to go into a haunted house on Halloween night. The friends get trapped in the house by the mansion’s ghost and must solve 12 clues and complete 12 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the n

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Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Games, Simulations

Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play

Created by

Mackowiecki Lewis

Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Drama, Halloween

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Worksheets, Scripts, Simulations

Biomagnification Simulation with Skittles

Created by

MsBioArtTeacher

Biomagnification SimulationWhat will the students be doing?In this hands-on activity, students will simulate the biomagnification of a chemical (mercury or DDT) throughout a marine ecosystem. Students will then determine which organisms are most affected by the chemical. After this simulation, students will be able to define and explain biomagnification. This is a fun activity to do with your students. I used it during an evaluation and the principal loved it!What is included?4 Student Workshee

Subjects:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Ocean Floor Mapping Battleship Game

Created by

Middle School Earth Science

Teacher Review: "My students are obsessed with this activity! They even ask to play during indoor recess!" - Turner's Teaching Troop (January 22, 2020)Ocean Floor Mapping Battleship includes 36 unique maps of the ocean floor, a recording sheet, a detailed lesson plan with suggested pre-game activities, a blank map students can use to draw their own ocean floor, a diagram showing the layers of the ocean, and easy to follow game instructions. Field tested with sixth-graders, this game challenges s

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Graphing

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

CCSS:

5.G.A.1

Also included in: Earth Science Games Bundle

World Population Growth Poster Project Activity | Human World Geography

Created by

Let's Cultivate Greatness

Explore just how big the world’s population really is with this two-part activity that includes an eye-opening simulation and a creative poster project while stretching their math skills.The posters make for a fun and engaging hallway display for the whole school to learn from!These activities come as both print-and-go PDF and editable, paperless Google files and are included in the complete Human Population Growth Unit.Greatness is being able to make the incomprehensible easy to understand.A mi

Subjects:

Environment, Geography, World History

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Projects, Simulations

CCSS:

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Antibiotic Resistance Lab: Simulate the Evolution of a Superbug - NGSS

Created by

Next Gen Sci Guy

In brief, students begin by answering an intriguing “bell ringer” (Powerpoint Slide included). Then, they simulate the use of an antibiotic on bacteria. The bacteria then mutates, requiring them to try an different antibiotic the following round. Finally, the two strains perform conjugations, and students try both antibiotics on the new strain, to no avail. They discover that a superbug has evolved. Students take data, graph the data, and analyze the data by answering post-lab questions. A.

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Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Social Studies - History

Edgar Allan Poe Activity CSI Mystery of Literary History Analysis

Created by

Learning Pyramid

Explore Edgar Allan Poe's greatest mystery: his own death! Your students will explore primary sources, non-fiction text, and leading theories about Poe's early death with this engaging crime scene investigation activity that encourages original thinking!A visually engaging case file is provided with comprehensive background readings on Edgar Allan Poe's life and literary accomplishments, and the events and circumstances leading up to his death. Leading theories about Poe's death are provided. St

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Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Activities, DBQs, Simulations

CCSS:

, W.8.1e

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Intro to Economics: Needs V. Wants

Created by

Interactive Learning Hub by Sarah Austin

An engaging way to begin a unit on economics! This fun and hands-on activity will have students explore the important concepts of human needs versus wants through an engaging rocket ship simulation. Students will be vicariously drawn into an emergency situation in which they must collaborate, and agree as to what items they consider as ‘essential’ for their survival on their rocket ship mission to live on a far away planet. An interactive Slide Presentation will help guide the groups on their jo

Subjects:

Economics , Environment, Other (Social Studies - History)

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Evolution Lab Activity Modeling Natural Selection - Mechanisms of Evolution

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Students will master the concepts of evolution by natural selection as they become predators in this lab simulation. Many students can recite a definition of natural selection, but they may have trouble visualizing how the process actually works. This lab provides a hands-on, visual activity that clearly shows natural selection in action. Further, this activity allows students to gather quantitative data to show that a population changes over time. This activity will show students that the en

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Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RST.9-10.3

, RST.11-12.3

NGSS:

HS-LS4-2

, HS-LS4-3

, HS-LS4-4

, MS-LS4-4

, MS-LS4-6

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Also included in: Biology Curriculum Full Year Bundle

Interactions Within Ecosystems - a complete science unit

Created by

Off the Page

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

Subjects:

Unit Plans, Activities, Simulations

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Also included in: Science Bundle - Structures and Forces, Ecosystems, Flight, and Electricity

Ecology Lab Effect of Acid Rain on Seed Germination

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What is acid rain and how does it form? What affect does acid rain have on seed germination and the growth of plants? What is the pH of acid rain in your local environment? These are a few of the questions that students will be exploring in this biology or ecology lab activity. The "Human Impact on the Environment" is a vital portion of any ecology unit. It is extremely important that we teach our science students the impact that human activities have on the environment.What is included in

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Grades:

8th - 12th

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Also included in: Biology Curriculum Full Year Bundle

Evolution Game: Mutation and Speciation in Action!

Created by

Astonishing Science

You know you have a winning lesson when your entire class of students begs you to let them continue playing a learning game in their free time. That’s the case with this evolution game: not only does it help students experience how evolution works through mutations, cross-breeding, speciation, extinction, and diversity, but it is really fun and creative. Students start out as a flock of white, flightless birds that only eat worms. By rolling dice and pulling mutation and event cards, they mutate

Subjects:

Games, Simulations, Lesson

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

NGSS:

MS-LS2-4

, MS-LS2-1

, MS-LS3-1

, MS-LS4-2

, MS-LS4-4

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Extreme Weather Interactive Simulation Lab- Tornados, Thunderstorms & Hurricanes

Created by

ORANGE CAT PRODUCTIONS

**NO FLASH REQUIRED** This is an ONLINE, INTERACTIVE SIMULATION LAB about Extreme Weather. My students enjoyed this lab because it presents the material in a fun, game-like manner.Includes: PART I: Build a Tornado & determine the Fujita Scale based on the damage it caused. PART II: Build the largest Thunderstorm from three weather variables. PART III: Build a Hurricane and see how land and cold water weakens it and PART IV: EXTRA CREDIT - Another Hurricane Simulation..The Lab is Step by

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Science

Grades:

5th - 11th

Types:

Laboratory, Simulations

Class Escape: Halloween Edition

Created by

Erin Smith ELA

My students loved my original Class Escape, so I created the HALLOWEEN EDITION when they begged me to make another! Modeled after the popular "Escape" games in many cities around the country, this classroom version prompts students to work together as a class to solve puzzles, connect the clues, and crack the code! Your students will be totally engaged in this hands-on, Halloween-themed challenge! You will need the following tools: - tape - color printer (preferred) or regular printer - scisso

Subjects:

Critical Thinking, Gifted and Talented, Halloween

Grades:

6th - 12th, Adult Education, Staff

Types:

Games, Simulations

The Biodiversity Game | Human Effects | Environmental Effects | VA LS.8-9

Created by

Kangaroo Science

This life science game shows how biodiversity depends on the environment that organisms are living in. New species are gained or lost based on environmental and human changes. This is a fairly simple activity, which allows the teacher to easily differentiate based on the ability level of the present class. Differentiation suggestions could be: modify instructions/game rules; have students answer questions individually, with partner(s), or whole class; have students create their own "biodiversity

Subjects:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Biogeochemical Cycles: The Carbon Cycle Dice Simulation Journey of a Carbon Atom

Created by

AwesomeScience

A journey though the Global Carbon Cycle like you have never experienced before!With a roll of the dice, students will travel around the classroom visiting nine of Earth’s carbon reservoirs: atmosphere, terrestrial plants, terrestrial animals, soil, rock, marine plants, marine animals, surface ocean, & deep ocean.In the process, they will learn a whopping amount of information that will link to many other scientific units of study. Examples include: weather, circulation of air in the tropos

Subjects:

Earth Sciences, Environment, Science

Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Centers

CCSS:

RST.6-8.7

, RST.9-10.5

, RST.9-10.7

NGSS:

MS-LS1-7

, HS-LS2-3

, MS-LS2-3

, HS-LS2-5

, MS-LS2-4

...

Also included in: Ecology, Environmental Studies, and Earth Science Activities Bundle

Human Impact Sustainability Overfishing Simulation Activity

Created by

Avery Science

Overview:Hit the point home on sustainability with this overfishing simulation activity. In this activity, students will play the role of fisherman removing fish (paper clips) from a pond. They will explore how sustainable fishing practices strengthen ecosystems and increase the amount of useable resources.Why You'll Love It:Easy to implement (few supplies required)Engaging and hands-onGenerates discussion with a real world exampleStudents Will:Work in pairs to simulate unregulated and regulated

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Grades:

6th - 9th

Types: