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Free biology simulations
Bird Beak Investigation - Animal Adaptations
Students will explore various kinds of bird beaks to determine which beak works best for different kinds of food/prey. Students will consider how physical and/or behavioral adaptations help animals survive. Teacher's guide included.
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2nd - 6th
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Genetic Mutations - Scrabble Challenge
This activity allows students to simulate a variety of mutations using something they are already familiar with - sentences. Students will begin by building a short sentence (using only 3-letter words to represent codons) out of scrabble tiles. Next, they perform the specified mutation by manipulating the tiles. Finally, they must create their own sentences and apply mutations.
It is a terrific activity to help students understand how a single change can affect a whole sequence or reading fr
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8th - 11th
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PhET: Building an Atom - Inquiry Virtual Lab for Atomic Structure
This handout guides students through the virtual lab "Building an Atom" simulation found for free at phet.colorado.edu. This activity works well as the "explore" phase of the 5e model for a unit on atomic structure or as a quick review for students who have learned atomic structure before.This is an inquiry-based approach to the simulation, where students are directed to play around and determine which subatomic particles (protons, neutrons, and electrons) affect the mass, charge, and name of a
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7th - 12th
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Carbon Cycle Interactive: SELF-GRADING + NO PREP
This Carbon Cycle Interactive takes students on a trip through time starting with Cool Guy Carbon as part of a glucose molecule inside a fern 200 million years ago. Cool Guy Carbon participates in digestion, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and combustion as part of glucose, carbon dioxide, and an oil molecule.Click here to try a test version of the entire activity for yourself.Please test this at your school before purchasing... just to make sure your school doesn't block the interactive.
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6th - 10th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, MS-LS2-3
, MS-LS1-6
Inheritance Patterns in the Kolo Genetics Activity - FREE RESOURCE
In this genetics activity, students will discover the variety of offspring that can come from one set of heterozygous Kolo parents. Kolos are cute little creatures that are rumored to live behind Rainbow Falls on the Big Island of Hawaii. In fact, Kolo means “to creep or crawl” in Hawaiian. All Kolos are very happy, but they have a few characteristics that vary from one Kolo to the next. Students will simulate inheritance principles as they determine the traits of their own unique Kolo, and then
Grades:
6th - 10th
NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
Population Ecology Virtual Lab
This virtual lab activity will allow students to study population growth through a simulation activity. Using an online Glencoe virtual lab, students will conduct an experiment in which they grow two species of the protozoan Paramecium, alone and mixed together [Please Note: online virtual lab requires Flash]. They will collect data to compare the growth curves and analyze their results. The lab handout contains everything students will need to run this simulation lab, and includes questions tha
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7th - 12th
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Virtual Frog Dissection / Virtual Lab
Click Here for the virtual lab. The google doc attached is just a doc with the link.This is a fully virtual, interactive frog dissection activity. It is an interactive Canva presentation. The activity covers lab safety materials, exploration of internal organs, external sensory organs, sexing, reproductive systems, and some multiple choice questions testing scientific knowledge as it relates to frogs :)PLEASE, please leave a review if you're happy with the product. I worked very hard on this and
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Grades:
6th - 12th
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Biotechnology Virtual Lab Worksheets
This biotechnology packet contains a series of questions which correspond to free virtual labs which focus on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), gel electrophoresis, DNA microarray analysis, reproductive cloning, and stem cell biology. While the labs themselves are wonderful resources, I wished they included worksheets for the students to complete to keep them focused on the material. As a result, I decided to create some! They are a great way to expose high school students to the steps of ge
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Microscope Simulation (Virtual Lab/Virtual Microscope)
I know everyone is getting accustomed to online learning. In order to make that transition a little easier I decided to make a simulation I created free. In order to make online learning easier, feel free to download for classroom use. I do not claim ownership of the microscope image. I did use that image to create a virtual lab where students can use an interactive simulation to identify the various parts of a microscope. I spent a great deal of time generating the simulation. Students can clic
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Grades:
6th - 12th
Enzyme Virtual Lab | Google Slides
This digital activity is a companion to an online simulation lab on enzymatic function. This Google Slide deck serves as the 'Student Sheet' for students to record their work as they complete the virtual lab (Please Note: online simulation lab requires Flash). In the lab, students will run a simulation that tests enzymatic function at various pH levels and with various amounts of substrate. This activity can be assigned and completed through Google Classroom, making it great for Remote/Distance
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Zombie Survival Ice Breaker and Introduction to Science Activity
The goal of this activity is to serve as an icebreaker and introduce students to the basic concepts of effective science at the start of the year. To be meaningful in science, our results must be reproducible and that starts with effective note taking. In this activity students must keep a detailed log of what they are doing to build their construction. This will be tested when groups exchange their logs and attempt to reconstruct the original creation.
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9th
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Virtual Enzyme Lab
Students use the glencoe virtual lab website to see how pH and substrate concentration work with an enzyme. Great for distance learning or for students who miss the hands-on lab due to absence.This lab requires FLASH....be aware that flash is not supported by many computers anymore.
Grades:
9th - 12th
Also included in: IB Biology Biochemistry Unit
Horrible Heredity - Monster Genetics
In this activity, students will be tossing coins to determine genetic outcomes. Students will then draw a picture of their monster and go on a gallery walk to explore the different traits of the baby monsters that resulted from the same parents.Inheritance modes explored are standard Mendelian, codominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, and polygenic traits.Three processing question versions are included - standard grade level, scaffolded, and advanced.
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
, HS-LS3-1
, MS-LS3-2
, HS-LS3-2
Octopus Paper Dissection
Here is the latest installment of my paper animal dissections which are becoming popular these days for different reasons. Even thought the octopus isn't a standard animal that is dissected in Biology classrooms, it could be dissected in Marine Bio and AP Bio. Advanced 8th grade science and regular Biology classrooms could also do this activity as an added-on activity when doing the frog or fetal pig for comparison, when learning about classification and the different classes in the animal kin
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8th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-3
, HS-LS1-2
Interactive Karyotype Activity for Google Slides™
This is an interactive karyotype activity for Google Slides™. A great resource for your students to use through Google Classroom™. This free resource includes a karyotype activity which contains 46 chromosomes that can be dragged and dropped into their respective places. A brief description explaining the basic concepts of a karyotype is also provided which makes this a wonderful self guided activity for students learning from home. If you enjoy this activity then please feel to support my e
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8th - 12th, Higher Education
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Photosynthesis - Virtual Game/Simulation (Digital/Printable)
This activity is interactive and engaging as students drive a “spaceship” to travel into a leaf and then a chloroplast to play a game that simulates the cellular actions of photosynthesis. The simulation includes extensive details of the Light-dependent Reactions and the Calvin Cycle and may not be appropriate for some students depending on your objectives. It is best used after an introductory lesson on photosynthesis or as a review activity. Review questions are included.Due to the web-based r
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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NGSS:
MS-LS1-7
, HS-LS1-5
Natural Selection and Adaptation Simulator
Free worksheet that goes with the simulator found at http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/natural-selection I found it there and wanted to share! Enjoy!
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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Virtual Frog Dissection
A worksheet to go with a frog dissection simulation from this website --> The Frog: A Virtual dissection (ilc.org)
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6th - 12th
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Protein Synthesis Recipe Lab
PROTEIN SYNTHESIS RECIPE LABThis lab allows students to simulate the process of protein synthesis by using a recipe analogy. Student will receive a DNA gene sequence, a.k.a “recipe” and will transcribe the gene sequence into an mRNA strand. Students then identify the codons and amino acids present in their gene sequence. Each amino acid is represented by a food item. Students then correlate the amino acids to the food items they represent and assemble their protein, a.k.a “snack mix” This l
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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NGSS:
HS-LS3-1
, HS-LS1-1
Ecological Competition Online Interactive Worksheet- Barnacles
This student worksheet is to be used while students are working through the publicly available online interactive found on the following website: http://virtualbiologylab.org/ModelsHTML5/BarnacleCompetition/BarnacleCompetitionModel.html
The worksheet includes instructions for students to navigate through the website and answer questions as they run the simulations.
The simulation has students complete a background reading about realized vs. fundamental ecological niches, inter-tidal zones and
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Grades:
6th - 10th
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Virtual Game/Simulation on the Cell Membrane (Digital/Printable)
Need a fun activity to engage students in learning about the cell membrane? This activity is interactive and engaging as students create a functioning cell membrane and observe and simulate cellular transport via animations and related activities. Guiding and Practice questions are included as well as a final challenge for students to keep a cell alive in a hypertonic solution*****************************************************************************WHAT'S INCLUDED:★ Virtual Game/Simulation:E
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Grades:
8th - 11th
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NGSS:
HS-LS1-2
, K-LS1-1
, HS-LS1-3
Also included in: CELL TRANSPORT ACTIVITY BUNDLE - WEBQUESTS, VIRTUAL LABS and a WET LAB
SBI4U Biochemistry Activity: Modeling Transport
A fun modelling activity for students gain a better understanding of active and passive transport. This package includes the following items:teacher and student instructionsrole cardsexit ticket + answer key
Grades:
12th
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Forensic Science RFLP DNA simulation activity
This is an excel file containing printable materials for use to simulate a very basic Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of DNA.
This is a paper/pencil simulation of RFLP! It does not include animations or directions for the actual manipulation of DNA.
The activity has students analyze the DNA of 7 subjects, then compare those subjects' DNA to three known DNA sources.
Items include teacher directions, student directions, DNA strips to fill in, a simulated gel box to
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Grades:
10th - 12th
Genetic Code Decoder (RNA to DNA)
Software that decodes the mRNA given by the user into the DNA sequence that originated it.
The program applies the rules of the genetic code and uses the sequence of RNA nucleotides to discover the sequence of DNA nucleotides that was used (via transcription) to synthesize it.
The user can find out the part of the genome that was responsible for the given mRNA.
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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