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Critical thinking biology simulations
Growth Mindset Escape Room | Middle and High School
Want a fun and engaging way to teach perseverance, grit, teamwork and why having a growth mindset is important? This Growth Mindset Escape Room is the perfect challenge for middle and high school students to both teach the concepts of a growth mindset and to have fun. ● ● ● Students are given the a scenario where their school is taken over by the evil Dr. Dread, with the only way out is to use their brain power before it turns to mush. By working together, and figuring out the clues, studen
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Escape Room Counseling Bundle | Friendship Growth Mindset Career
Population Ecology Lab Simulation - Modeling Population Growth
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
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Grades:
8th - 12th
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-4
, MS-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-2
Also included in: Population Ecology Bundle
The Sinking of the Lusitania: Solve the WWI Mystery w Primary Source Analysis!
Perhaps one of the most important events of World War One, the sinking of the Lusitania has fascinated kids and adults for years. Use this mystery to harness that fascination and engage students in an inquiry-based mission that they will remember all year long!In this mystery, students are posed with an engaging scenario - they are CIA Agents that must piece together once and for all how and why the Lusitania sank. They are presented with a variety of "exhibits," all cleverly designed to engage
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5th - 12th
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Also included in: GROWING WWI BUNDLE: Higher Order Thinking WWI Activities (SS5H2)
Budgeting Board Game for Financial Literacy - Students Practice Real Life Skills
Empower young minds with the ultimate guide to shaping their dream lifestyle! This resource isn't just a bunch of financial planning worksheets. This game is designed to show pre-teens and teens the real-life impact of personal financial choices on their future. It's a game-changer for helping them grasp the art of budgeting as they transition into adulthood.Over the course of the game, students embark on a journey where they'll make a series of decisions, each one carrying the power to shape th
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6th - 12th
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Oregon Trail: Simulation Game
Super engaging slideshow game to get students thinking about what life on the Oregon Trail was like. You lead the class with 13 scenarios, and students make decisions and keep track of survival points. A great way to introduce the Oregon Trail to students. It includes 42 slides, directions, and a student handout to record survival points. I use this activity with my 8 graders a few details might need to be edited if used with younger grade levels.Takes about 1 hour.
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Western Expansion Games Bundle: Oregon Trail, Gold Rush, Lewis and clark
Speciation Activity: Students model Mutation, Natural Selection, and Evolution
Students often have trouble with the concepts of Natural Selection and Evolution of a species. Where do new traits come from? Does the environment cause mutations to happen? Or does the mutation come first? How does geographic isolation lead to speciation? This is a fun, easy, low-prep activity that allows students to experience the process of evolution (speciation) due to random mutation and geographic isolation. Students get a solid understanding of where new traits come from and how changes i
Grades:
6th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-LS4-2
, HS-LS4-1
, HS-LS4-4
, HS-LS4-5
Lunch Bunch Games | Friendship Escape Room
This Friendship Escape Room is the perfect challenge for upper elementary and middle school students to build teamwork and learn about positive friendship skills. This challenge is meant to be given in a shorter time span than other escape rooms and is perfect for those lunch time groups! Students are given the a scenario where there school is infected with Bully Fever and to release the antidote students need to work together to solve the challenges, release the keys and solve the secret co
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3rd - 7th
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Also included in: Escape Room Counseling Bundle | Friendship Growth Mindset Career
HEREDITY Creature Features - Inherited and Environmental Traits
Use this simple but highly engaging activity to help students make the connection between inherited traits and the similarities between parents and their offspring.
Students will flip a coin to simulate the genetic traits being passed on to the offspring of two made-up “parent” creatures.
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Teacher Instructions
Parent Creatures Posters
Student Sheets
Answer Key
Sample Student Work
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5th - 8th
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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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Biochemistry Activity Bundle with Four Macromolecules for High School Biology
Use beads, pipe cleaners, and paper clips to model all four types of molecules studied in a traditional high school biology biochemistry unit. Students will model monomers, polymers, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). This is a tough unit to teach. Chemical structures, monomers, and polymers are so abstract! You will never teach biochemistry without these activities again!My students love my carbohydrate, protein, and lipid structures activities. Performing th
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9th - 12th
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Escape Room Solve the Mystery Challenge | Teamwork Activity | Breakout Game
Bring the fun and excitement of a breakout room to your classroom! This cross curricular mystery challenge will have your students engaged, investigating and challenged from start to finish without the need of complicated locks or boxes. Students will work their way through 4 clues, each time they complete the clue challenge, they eliminate a suspect. You can use this as an introduction to teaching mysteries or a review day game!This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available her
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3rd - 4th
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The Virtual Biodiversity Game
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
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NGSS:
MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-1
, HS-LS4-6
, MS-ESS3-4
, MS-ESS3-3
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Ecosystem in a Bottle Project: An Inquiry-Based Ecological Investigation
In this inquiry-based lab investigation, students will create an ecosystem simulation using 2-Liter bottles to explore the cycling of the essential elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen through biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem. Students will need a minimum of two 2-Liter bottles for this project – one to represent an aquatic ecosystem and one to represent a terrestrial ecosystem. Students will work with a partner to design a way to connect these two bottle ecosystems so th
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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Wants and Needs Sort - 1st grade Social Studies Needs vs Wants Activities
These interactive needs vs wants activities are perfect to teach your students about wants and needs, and to help them understand the consequences of choosing wants vs needs in real-life situations.PACKED with everything you need! Includes a lesson plan, simulation activity with teacher script, vocabulary aid, sorting activities, critical thinking worksheet, and writing activity.Description:This fun interactive activity sends students on an adventure simulation as they pack their backpacks with
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K - 2nd
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Ecology Lab Estimating Population Size
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
Also included in: Biology Lab Bundle - Cells Mitosis Genetics DNA Dichotomous Keys Enzymes
Back to School Escape Room | Team Building Activities | First Week of School
Are you ready to kick off the new school year with a thrilling and collaborative experience for your students? Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities will make the first week of school unforgettable as students work together to solve puzzles, decode challenges, and build lasting connections.This is the PRINTABLE VERSION, the DIGITAL VERSION is available here. Why Choose Our Back-to-School Escape Room Team Building Activities?Engaging and Interactive: The escape room format adds
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3rd - 4th
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Also included in: Escape Room Challenge Bundle | Breakout Games | Teamwork Challenges
Mock Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Classroom Mystery/Detective Simulation Game
Stage a mock crime scene investigation in your classroom! Kids solve the mystery through observation and science labs. They study crime scene photos, gather clues, analyze fingerprints, and experiment with powders and chromatography. Students love participating in this forensic science simulation - and cracking the case!Open the preview to take a closer look at the game-like project. The crime scene and detective activities are laid out for you. With a few common household items (such as pens, p
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3rd - 5th
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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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Grades:
5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
NGSS:
HS-LS3-3
, HS-LS3-1
Frog Paper Dissection
This activity is a perfect alternative to dissection or as an elaboration or evaluation. I have taught Biology for 36 years, and have done many real dissections of many different animals, but have changed my mind on whether students need a real frog to dissect in high school. Recently, I have given this activity to my students instead of doing a real dissection, and they have fun, stay safe and don't hurt any animals! Students who were absent during a real dissection could do this activity to
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7th - 12th
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Halloween Science Game Teaching Biodiversity
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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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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Grades:
6th - 9th
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Also included in: Biology Activities & Worksheets Bundle
Mitosis and Meiosis Cell Division Modeling Simulation Lab
This modeling activity is a Mitosis and Meiosis Lab Simulation. Students will model the stages of mitosis and meiosis using either the hands-on pop bead version or the digital Google Slides "drag and drop" version. Both versions are included in this resource.Suitable for Biology or Life Science Students in Grades 9-12In the hands-on pop bead version, students will use chromosome simulation (pop bead) kits to assemble and manipulate chromosomes during both types of cell division. The student hand
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Grades:
9th - 12th
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CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-LS1-4
Also included in: Mitosis and Meiosis Cell Division Bundle
4th Grade Science Plant and Animal Structures Bundle (NGSS Aligned)
This bundle includes two units: Plant Structures and Animal Structures. This bundle was created to support 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. The unit is appropriate for grades 3-5.This bundle is full of inquiry-based engaging activities. Since each of these units is sold separately, you can click on the links below for a full description of what's included
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Grades:
3rd - 5th, Higher Education
NGSS:
4-LS1-1
DNA Fingerprinting Simulated Crime Scene Activity Distance Learning
This DNA Fingerprinting Simulated Crime Scene Activity is a great way to begin your unit on the structure, function and processes of DNA in order to elicit student interest in learning about the DNA molecule! I introduce this crime scene situation on the first day of studying DNA then do a series of lessons on DNA structure and replication, all while the crime scene is set up in the classroom to keep my students engaged. The last day of the week, we do this fingerprinting activity to determine t
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Grades:
7th - 10th
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NGSS:
HS-LS1-1
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