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Summer Science Recipes: Experiments on the Grill and in the Kitchen
Generate ideas about the most scientifically sound ways to prepare foods safely and efficiently during the summer season. Learners will use the GED Connection Science Workbook, so they can practice the skills needed to prepare for the...
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this life science GED activity, students complete a crossword puzzle given 9 clues about structures of the nervous system, the circulatory system, evolution, the digestive system, molecules and fossils. Students are given a word bank...
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this life science vocabulary learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle using 10 given clues about various topics of life science such as natural selection, cell structures and function and components of the body systems....
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this life science worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given nine clues and nine terms. Topics include systems of the body and their structures, cloning, photosynthesis and denitrification.
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this life science learning exercise, students complete a crossword puzzle given eight clues about and a word bank about cloning, evolution, the human brain, photosynthesis and the respiratory system.
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this GED life science activity, high schoolers complete a crossword puzzle given 8 clues about cell division, genetics, and the human body systems.
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GED: Vocabulary: Life Science
In this GED vocabulary activity, students complete a crossword puzzle given 10 clues about genetics and cloning, food chains, vaccines, the brain and the nervous system and organisms. Students are given a word bank to use to complete the...
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Scientific Method
Here is a resource with a descriptive approach to explaining the scientific method. It's simple, but effective for both introduction and reinforcement of this concept.
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What's Inside
Students become more familiar with life science in the context of the scientific method which helps them to become familiar with the various kinds of life science diagrams they may see on a GED science test.
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this life science worksheet, learners review terms such as genetics, mutation, trait, predator, and herbivore by completing 8 questions in this crossword puzzle.
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Acid in the Water
Ninth graders learn about the effect pollution has on water and how this affects their community. In this environmental awareness lesson, 9th graders expand their vocabulary and create a flowchart that demonstrates the process of acid...
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Taste and Smell
Students experiment with sense of smell, and how it relates to sense of taste.
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First You See It - Auroras!
Students read science article on auroras and create a class bingo game with the scientific terms.
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Interpreting a Flowchart
Students examine insects place in a community. They discover the communities of insects.
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Golden Stars?
Pupils explore the possibility that all the gold on Earth came from another source. Discussions of how the materials arrived and its source forms the basis of data used to play a review game.
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Sleep Today - No, Maybe Tomorrow
Students read and interpret handout about sleeping habits and disorders, and plan and create classroom bulletin board that displays causes, disorders and effects of sleep deprivation.
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Diabetes - It's a Killer!
Students survey, graph and chart their prior knowledge about diabetes. They read a handout and complete a K-W-L chart. They develop a rubric to assess their diet and exercise and develop a shopping list, menu and exercise plan to share.
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What's My BMI?
Students construct the Metric Pyramid from the handout. They use the Metric Pyramid to convert from standard to metric measure and vice versa. They compute their own Body Mass Index.
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Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
Young scholars review basics of subject and verb agreement, and write sentences in which the subject and verb are in agreement.