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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students discuss scientific advances brought about by the Mars Surveyor Space Program which impact on daily life, identify laboratory apparatus like microscopes, slides and coverslips, and use the microscopes to view cells and organisms. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students pretend they were Anton looking through the microscope for the first time. They describe the way he felt when he observed tiny moving objects in the sample of pond water. They look at their own samples of pond water, make observations and drawings, and describe what they see, and how they felt. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students investigate specialized structures in both plants and animals. They relate structure to function, as they determine why the specialization is necessary and useful to the living organisms involved. They use microscopes to look at cells and they investigate the differences between different types of cells. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use microscopes to observe E. coli bacateria on prepared slides and in a live culture. They use micro-slide viewers to observe the shapes of various bacteria and the structures within the bacterial cell. Students make an hypotheses and compare similarities and differences among organisms. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students are able to see onion root cells undergoing mitosis underneath a light microscope and determine the phase of mitosis the cells are in. They draw a sketch of the mitotic cells. Students explore the phases of mitosis and the cell cycle. They explore why cells undergo mitosis and how uncontrolled cell division leads to cancer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students observe organisms found in pond water with a microscope. In groups, they discuss how single-celled organisms satisfy their needs for food, water and air. They compare and contrast the needs of macroscopic and microscopic organisms and review the basic cell structure. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students work at science centers in order to look at several plants under the microscope. They work in small groups to look at a slice of an onion and a green plant under the microscope. They draw the cells that they viewed and label specific parts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students study spiders. They view spider silk through a microscope and compare it to human hair or other fibrous materials. In groups, they compare the strength and elasticity of spider silk. Finally they watch a teacher demonstration on polymers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students explore how to collect plankton and use microscopes to observe and identify it. They collect the plankton sample and classify the various components of the plankton. Students identify organisms in the plankton and draw inferences about the productivity based on their sample. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 3rd
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Students observe and find out about features in the place that they live and in the environment all around them. They assess recordings seen through a microscope or magnifier, the similarities and differences between seeds and how to manipulate different tools and colors to draw on a computer screen. Full Review »
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