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Guided Reading Organizer for Chain Reaction
The class uses Chain Reaction, a magazine, to build a better understanding of Latin and Greek roots found in scientific vocabulary. They use two attached worksheets to help them read a scientific article, using visual clues and their...
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Biology - Life Cycles Game
Students develop a working vocabulary of terms related to the life cycle. In small groups, students play the life cycle's game which consists of matching and defining vocabulary. Directions for creating the game board are included with...
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Remember This?
Students investigate the mechanics of an fMRI and the properties of neurons. In this biology lesson, students analyze the way the brain works by performing tests in the neurons in the brain. This is all done theoretically.
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A Raisin in the Sun: Vocabulary Bingo
Students study A Raisin in the Sun. Students study new vocabulary through a game of bingo. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I Have a Dream" as a supplementary text. Students create their own bingo cards.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Students examine causes and treatment options for cholera. In this biology lesson, students model the osmotic basis of cholera using dialysis tubes. Students propose treatments for hypothetical patient.
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How Does Chance Influence Inheritance?
Students complete a lab based on how chance affects which genes appear in gametes as in Mendel's Law of Segregation. They review the theories, vocabulary words, and historical background of Gregor Mendel's work with pea plants. They...
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Neural Pictionary
High schoolers explore the nervous system. They pictorially illustrate terms that deal with the nervous system. Students play a "pictionary" game to review nervous system vocabulary words.
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Blood type Switch
High schoolers read a text about blood groups and answer such questions as what, where and why regarding a scientific discovery. They complete vocabulary worksheets, comprehension exercises and utilize problem solving skills to decide...
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Keeping Watch on Coral Reefs
Students investigate the dangers Coral Reefs face by investigating satellite images. In this environmental protection lesson, students utilize the Internet to discover the types of satellites and sensors used to provide oceanographic...
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Respiration Crossword
For this respiration worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle by figuring out the vocabulary words associated with the 14 clues given.
Teach Engineering
Heart to Heart
Begin a unit on the heart, the parts and the function of the heart, and about heart disease with a resource that includes a lecture, a PowerPoint presentation, and research information. The lesson is the first of a four-part series and...
Teach Engineering
Tissue Mechanics
Engage your class by showing them how silly putty and human tissues are alike. Pupils learn more about tissue mechanics by reflecting upon their experiences with silly putty. The lesson covers collagen, elastin, and proteoglycans and...
University of Hawaiʻi
Taxonomy and Me!
Taxonomy is the study of organisms and how you phylum. Three biology activities are included, helping scholars understand four of the six kingdoms, specifically Protista, Plantae, Fungi, and Animalia. Scholars observe and classify in...
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Understanding the Body, Day 1: Anatomy
Intended for moderate to severely disabled students, this lesson focuses on building an understanding of human anatomy. A secondary special education class reviews, identifies, and labels parts of the body. Including the internal and...
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The Use of Biocards for Topical Review
Students create biocards to represent vocabulary from their biology course. They review and reinforce their basic knowledge of terminology, structures, or concepts. They create the cards to test themselves or classmates.
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What Happens When A Cell Divides?
Students investigate the cycle of mitosis. In this biology lesson, students discuss the different stages of mitosis through cell reproduction. They further their investigation through laboratory analysis.
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Biology Research Assignment
Learners become aware of and develop an appreciation for science in the world around us.
Cornell University
Plant Cell Crime Scene
Use science to solve the mystery of the Poplar murder. Pupils use forensic botany to determine if a suspect could be the killer. By analyzing images from a Transmission Electron Microscope, learners determine if the material found on the...
University of Georgia
Monohybrid Crosses and The Punnett Square Lesson Plan
Looking for a quick, hands-on activity to teach young scientists about Punnett squares through monohybrid crosses? then check out this one.
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Antigen Switching in Malaria
Learners model how the malaria-causing protist avoids immune response in its host. In this parasite biology lesson, students use printed cell images to model the way that Plasmodium changes surface protein markers every few generations...
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Biochemistry Detectives
High schoolers explore the process of chemosynthesis and relate it to the biological communities in cold seeps. In this biochemistry lesson plan students interpret analyses of enzyme activity and draw inferences about organisms in cold...
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Blood Vessels & Circulation
Young scholars participate in a layered curriculum designed lesson in order to study the cardiovascular system of the human body. The assessments and activities are student centered.
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How Can We Target Tumor Angiogenesis?
High schoolers define and use new vocabulary. They review the process of angiogenesis and describe the characteristics of a tumor. They discover how chemotherapy targets these types of cells.
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Biodiversity
Students match certain animals with a possible fate that could happen to them from a provided list in order to discover the threats to biodiversity and the role humans play. They also discover the importance of biodiversity and what we...