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Bone Fractures and Engineering
Students examine bone fractures and the role that engineers play in repairing them. In this biomedical engineering lesson students describe the factors that engineers consider when designing devices.
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Identifying Fossils
Students create model fossils. In this fossils lesson, students view pictures of fossils and compare and contrast these fossils. Students read about fossils and create a database chart with the facts they learn. Students construct...
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Fossils
In this fossils worksheet, students review the different types of fossils including index and trace fossils. This worksheet has 6 matching and 9 true or false questions.
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Fossils
In this fossil worksheet, students match six terms with their definitions about types of fossils and they circle the proper term to make nine statements true about preservation of fossils.
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What is a Fossil?
In this fossil worksheet, learners are given twelve terms to find in a word search that are related to the types of fossils and the study of fossils.
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Do-It-Yourself Fossils
In this fossils instructional activity, students create their own casts, molds, imprints, and embedded fossils. Then students complete a fossil comparison chart. This instructional activity has 12 fill in the blank questions.
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Fossil Impressions of Ancient Life
Young scholars make a mold using Plaster of Paris and then make a cast using that same mold. They pick a fossil and describe how it looks. They write a fictionalized story about its life, or burial. (
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Spider
Students use a spider casting kit to mold a tarantula spider. They discuss the tarantula, its parts, and its habitat.
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Made for the Movies
Students create a movie flyer to advertise the novel that the class has just finished reading in small groups. They search the Internet, format their flyer, select a slogan for their film, write a brief plot summary, without giving away...
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Mold It
Students make molds of various items of their choosing using the Molt-It kit. They discuss the scientific value of making molds.