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Dichotomous Key for Identifying Pine Trees

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the species of pine trees that are found in their area. They use unlabeled "mystery" samples and a dichotomous key to identify the pine trees to species. After identification, they use a field guide to answer worksheet...
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Prairie Find Outdoors

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students take a field trip to a local prairie. Using identification books, they identify various forbs and grasses in the prairie. As a class, they discuss the importance of forbs and grasses to the ecosystem and review the various types...
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What is Life? Demonstrations & Discussion

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Display seven items for your biologists to consider. Are they living or non-living? How can you tell? This is a simple outline of what you can display and questions that can be discussed as this topic is explored. One way to use this...
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Pollinators and Wildflowers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how plants depend on pollinators to reproduce.  In this pollination lesson students dissect a local flower and collect and identify pollinating insects. 
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Prairie Restoration and Prairie Ecology

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars 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...
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Exploring the Temperate Forest: Biodiversity and Interdependence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the consequences of cutting down large amounts of forests throughout the world. In groups, they use the internet to complete a module taking them on a tour through different temperate forests. To end the lesson, they...
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"Greenhouse" Sprouts Garden

For Teachers K - 8th
Students grow sprouts in soil inside clear plastic bags. They record and monitor the growth for five days, and present their findings to the class.
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Enzymes in Action

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore how enzymes are important in the chemical reactions of all living things.  In this enzymes and catalysts instructional activity students complete an activity to see how enzymes change living things.
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Can Photosynthesis Occur at Saturn?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students identify the different requirements for photosynthesis to take place. In this space science instructional activity, students simulate conditions in Saturn to investigate if photosynthesis is possible there. They use data and...
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Getting a Handle on Your Bee

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe dried bees, carefully glue them to toothpicks, and use them for cross pollinating their Brassica plants. They also describe reasons why two similar investigations can produce different results. Finally, students...
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Mushroom Prints

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Learners create a mushroom spore design on paper while studying the facts on fungi.
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Investigation Xylem

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate how water travels up the stem of vascular plants by using food coloring to stain the xylem of a number of different plants. They know the function of leaves, stems, and root at the end of the experiment.
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Making a Brassica Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply skills they have learned to construct an accurate model of the Brassica and then work together on a group project. They analyze how the parts of a system go together, and how these parts depend on each other. Finally,...
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Space Age Technology Comes to Earth

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore jobs related to agriculture. In this technology/agriculture lesson, students recognize the importance of natural resources and agriculture on the use of Range Rambler software. Students complete an experiment and a...
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Reclamation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students recognize the importance of reclaiming the land after mining. They observe the experiment demonstrating the process of erosion and record their results of the effects of rain upon the land.
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Bird Beak Adaptation Lab

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate bird beaks to determine which physical adaptations are necessary based on the types of food the birds eat. They participate in a lab by visiting multiple stations to determine which beaks are most efficient, and...
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Water Properties introduction

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students list items they know and want to know about water on personal K-W-L charts. They describe what happened during the warm up activity in their science journal. Students travel to four different stations and perform the different...
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Where Do Weeds Grow Best?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Student design an experiment in order to determine where weeds grow the best. Through data collection and observations, they discover optimum conditions for weed growth, conditions that make it difficult for weeds to grow, and create...
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Finding and Collecting in the Field

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the types of plants brought over to America from immigrants. They research how some of these types of plants cause damage and alter the landscape. They record data and share the information with the community.
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Bean and Ozone Project

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students performed an experiment in which they grew beans in an ozone chamber and some in regular air in order to see if the ozone causes damage to the plants.
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Relationships and Biodiversity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine diversity on the planet and the differences within a species.  In this investigative lesson students complete a lab that allows students to better understand the relatedness between plants. 
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Crickets on the Hearth

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers investigate how crickets behave in cold temperatures. In this life science lesson, students explain the beneficial and harmful effect of pests. They research ways to properly manage them.
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Educating the Community

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students research the effects of invasive and exotic plants. They create posters, webpages and books to educate the community. They present their material in different forums.
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Enzymes in Action: An Inquiry Approach to the Effects of Enzymes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students experiment with enzymes as key components of chemical reactions in all living things through this series of lessons.

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