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- 6th - 12th
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Students act as ethnobotanists and investigate the relationship between plants and people. Pairs of students explore different plants, focusing on environmental requirements, life cycle, sustainability, and benefits to humankind, and then create poste Full Review »
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- 8th - 11th
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Students work as a team to gather organisms from a stream to evaluate if the water quality is excellent, good, or fair to poor. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students read about and discuss life of Russian geneticist Nikolai Vavilov, define terms related to field of genetics, complete worksheets, conduct seed experiments, observe and record results, and locate seed banks on world map or globe. Full Review »
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- 5th - 7th
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Students examine the lives and contributions of people who have worked in the fields of genetics and biotechnology. Students work in small groups and read a biography of a person associated with genetics. After filling out a comparison chart for their scientist, students share their information with other groups. Students complete the comparison chart on the other scientists then write a biography about a hypothetical geneticist of the future. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students examine how different nutrients in the soil and fertilizers affect plant growth. In groups, they participate in a role play in which allows them to see the interactions of humans and plants. They also read articles and record their opinions about issues related to agriculture. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students collect data as they identify and classify native prairie plants and insects. They create their own population study using a variety of sampling techniques to determine the population density of various species. Students identify various layers of soil through a soil profile. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students are introduced to the effect of gravity on plant growth. They describe the major processes and mechanisms by which plants grow, develop, and supply various products, including energy and nutrition, needed by other organisms. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the pH of the soil in which different plants grow. They design and carry out an experiment to determine the factors that affect the growth of a population of plants, identifying and controlling major variables (e.g., examine the effect on plant growth of the quantity of nutrients, or the quantity and quality of light, or temperature, or salinity). Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students read a story about the life of Russian plant breeder Nikolai I and Vavilov and the national seed bank he established. They research the Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s and identify the cause for this famine and make suggestions that could have prevented this from happening. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students discuss plants and what they need. They are asked if all plants are alike, and what they require to grow. Students view the video "All About Plants." They discuss the types of plants featured on the video. Students discuss the parts of flowering plants and the process of photosynthesis, the process by which plants make food. Full Review »
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