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Using Plant Pigments to Link a Suspect to a Crime

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use chromatography to separate plant pigments collected from a fictitious crime scene and suspects. They compare the Rf values of the plant pigments to determine whether the plant pigments found on any of the suspects...
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Investigating Plant Pigments: A Guided Inquiry Laboratory Experiment

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students participate in a three-part lab in which they investigate plant pigments. Part I is designed to teach basic laboratory techniques of column chromatography, in Part II students design an experiment to separate the components of a...
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Using Plant Pigments as Natural Dyes

For Teachers 1st - 7th
Students create friendship bracelets and quilt squares. In this plant lesson student dye their own string and cotton material with plant pigments. Students use the naturally dyed materials to create the friendship bracelets and quilt...
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Sunlight Cal-Tech

Chromatography of Plant Pigments

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Through a hands-on activity, an acetone-spinach solution is pre-made and learners use this solution to separate the pigments found in spinach using chromatography. The comprehensive resource includes an analysis and conclusion questions.
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Function of Plant Parts

For Students 6th - 8th
In this biology worksheet, students examine the functions of plant parts while solving the crossword puzzle. This strengthens vocabulary knowledge.
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Biology Junction

Plant Diversity

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Ginkgo trees existed for more than 350 million years, and, at this time, only one species still remains. While plant diversity generally increases over geologic time, some interesting exceptions occur. Young scientists learn about plant...
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Plant Pigment Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discover the roles of pigments present in leaves. They extract and isolate pigments present in autumn leaves using a thin layer chromatography. Very nice lesson and lab!
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Plant Pigments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the components of chlorophyll. They use paper chromatography to separate the many pigments of chlorophyll from one another.
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Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) Separation of Plant Pigments - Chlorophyll, Carotene

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use TLC separations to identify various substances.  In this chlorophyll lesson students separate pigments found in different plants.
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Plant Parts And What They Do (5.2)

For Students 4th - 6th
In this identifying plant parts and what they do worksheet, students answer multiple choice, true and false, and fill in the blanks with the best vocabulary words. Students write fifteen answers.
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Food Color Chemistry

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students investigate plant pigments in fruits and vegetables. In this plant pigments lesson plan, students observe the effects of pH changes on chlorophyll in one demonstration and they observe the effects pH changes on flavonoids in...
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Pigment Puzzles

For Teachers 5th - 7th
A hands-on chromatography lesson brings science to the magic of changing autumn leaves. After collecting plant samples, young scientists use paper strips, two liquids, and coffee filters to separate the pigments, then match their print...
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American Chemical Society

Isolation of Phytochrome

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Why do soybean plants that are planted weeks apart in the spring mature simultaneously in the fall? Four independent activities cover the history of phytochrome research, scientist collaboration, the electromagnetic spectrum, and...
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The Absorption of Solar Energy

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Two sequential parts to this lesson introduce your class to the electromagnetic spectrum, the ability to absorb radiant energy, and the pigments in leaves that are responsible for collecting sunlight to be used in the photosynthetic...
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Cell Structures and Their Functions

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Life science learners investigate live cells. They examine wet mount slides of cyanobacteria and Elodea plants. They peer into the dynamic microscopic world of protists. Afterward, they construct a model of a cell, including rudimentary...
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Recognition and Classification of Mixtures

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Immerse your chemistry class in solutions! They melt and compare the mixtures that make up margarine, separate black ink into its component colors, distill ocean saltwater, and practice chromatography with plant pigments. There are eight...
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Alabama Wildlife Federation

Colors to Dye for!

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Nature provides a rainbow of colors at one's fingertips. A hands-on activity uses natural plant materials to create all-natural dyes. Plants range from fruits and vegetables to flowers and greens. After extracting the pigments, eager...
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Pigment Plucking

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars examine pigments found in different fruits and vegetables and practice the processes for extracting the pigments. Pigments are used to create artwork and a class PowerPoint presentation is made on the different types of...
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The Effects of Light and Temperature on the Growth and Development of Plants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the effects of light and temperature on plant growth and development. In this plant growth lesson plan, students use radish plants and cover them with different shades of green and red transparencies and...
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Photosynthesis

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students assess and experiment with the role of plant pigments in photosynthesis. They relate the basic principles of photosynthesis utilizing paper chromatography to evaluate a hypothesis regarding plant pigments as well as the role of...
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Chlorophyll

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explain the importance of chlorophyll in plants. In this biology lesson, students extract chlorophyll from different plant sources using chromatography. They discover the different factors needed for photosynthesis to take...
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Paper Chromatography-Chemical and Mechanical

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students perform paper chromatography to determine pigments in plants. In this paper chromatography lesson plan, students isolate leaf pigments, prepare a chromatogram and place their chromatogram in a solvent to separate the pigments....
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Plant Growth - Light and Shade

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders conduct an experiment comparing plants.  In this plant lesson, 3rd graders plant seeds and grow two varieties of plant comparing the light needed for it to grow.  Students make predictions and record their observations....
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Flower Pigments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils experiment with Thin Layer Chromatography to separate pigments found in flower petals.

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