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Free biology resources for GATE
The Food Chain Game: Florida Everglades Freshwater
Students learn about interactions in an ecosystem, animal adaptations, and threats to ecosystems in this card game based on a Florida Everglades Freshwater food web. Companion Teaching Slides are available for this resource. Please contact us for access.This card game is based on text and images from Life in the Everglades: A Young Naturalists Field Guide and Manual by Mindy Dickman.Template adapted from phylogame.org.Use these cards for:Food chains and food websAnimal adaptationsThreats to ecos
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3rd - 8th
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Global warming and photosynthesis project based learning task
This resources is a complete project based learning task that requires students to learn about photosynthesis, global warming and the carbon cycle. The project helps students develop their own opinion about a real world 'wicked' problem (a problem where there are multiple perspectives about a 'right' solution). This is a rigorous task that empowers students to see how science concepts affect their every day lives.
Students are presented with the following: "To combat global warming, some indivi
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7th - 9th
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Medical Mystery: What's the diagnosis?
This is a student-paced lesson where students become doctors trying to diagnose three patients. After learning about their patients' symptoms, they explore frontotemporal disorders. Students can work alone or in small groups. After diagnosing their patients, they will practice their Claim-Evidence-Reasoning skills and then use the method of their choice to educate one of the patients on their disease. For students needing translation into another language, I recommend the Pear Deck version, whic
Biomimicry Project Choices
After researching the innovative ideas that have come from the young and evolving science of Biomimicry, students are give the choice of two final projects. I did this unit to extend the regular classroom science curriculum, where they were learning about inventions and inventors. Biomimicry looks first at how other life forms solve problems for survival and then takes those same ideas to inspire designs that can help mankind. The students love this unit each year as it gives them a chance to
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4th - 6th
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Second Grade Lifecycles Gate Content Imperatives
Raise the thinking bar. Students can compare two lifecycles using GATE language to understand parallels in the lifecycle of two different animals. This lesson/ think sheet satisfies a common core second grade science objective.
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2nd
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Science Curriculum and Standards for Gifted and Talented Students - Grade 7
A life science curriculum, complete with lesson plans, for middle school teachers who find that "gifted and talented" students in their classes are not being challenged enough by the current coursework.
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6th - 8th
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A Recycling Initiative - A Scoring Rubric
Do you want your students to engage in a project that is real-word based and can create positive change? Consider having them write recycling proposals they can present to local organizations to persuade them to incorporate recycling to reduce waste.This is a rubric that can be used to assess a student recycling proposal. It can be used as a formative and summative assessment, although its intent is as a summative assessment.Items in the rubric include: quality of ideas, scientific feasibility,
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7th - 12th
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Body Systems Extensions Menu (Science)
Extensions Menu for Body Systems Project. Students are given a variety of project choices that are aligned with Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.
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