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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students design and carry out an exercise to determine if a given fruit or vegetable is composed of cells. They dissect out sections of the fruit or vegetable, prepare stained slides, and make observations under a compound microscope. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 6th
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Students experience how texture is one of the six basic elements of design. It gives an image authenticity and 'flavor'. It invites the audience to enter a piece and encourages each viewer to experience rather than simply observe. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the findings of the environment that is around them. They make observations and think reflectively about nature. Students make cognitive connections from the world around them and write reflectively. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 11th
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Students write a five paragraph theme that explains how the novel which they read in this unit effectively utilized various literary elements to portray the impact of a disease on a population. They then decide which three literary elements to write about because these best explored the impact of the disease on the time and culture examined in his or her book. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 9th
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Students explore the parts of flowers and how they reproduce. They dissect flowers and observe the reproductive organs. Students observe anthers and ovaries of Tiger Lilies under a microscope. They investigate how insects and other organisms are involved in the reproduction process. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students conduct field and laboratory investigations using safe, environmentally appropriate, and ethical practices. They are expected to demonstrate safe practices during field and laboratory investigations; and make wise choices in the use and conservation of resources and the disposal or recycling of materials. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students watch and discuss a demonstration of a Strombolian Eruption. The teacher first opens a can of soda that has been agitated and then opens a second can more slowly to demonstrate that this lets out the gas slowly so the pop does not erupt as violently. Students work on computers to demonstrate volcanic eruptions. They record their observations on a worksheet Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students study nanotechnology and GMR, a phenomenon based on nanotechnology. They review basic concepts of electricity and magnetism and participate in an interactive, hands-on activity that relates current computer technology to their lives. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students create three dimensional cell models. They may choose to make either a plant or animal cell but must use a ziploc bag as the cell membrane, slime for the cytoplasm, and a strawberry baskets for the cell wall if making a plant cell. They may choose what they wish to represent all the other organelles of the cell and must include a key. Project is completed by mathematically comparing the size of the cell they created to an actual cell. Full Review »

