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Curated OER

Making Craters

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Young scholars study craters and identify the different things that characterize craters.  In this crater lesson students create a model of an impact crater. 
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Curated OER

Gas Properities Definitions

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students, after reading the Web page Gas Properties Definitions, complete the activity to demonstrate an understanding of the properties of gases.
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Curated OER

Cladistics Is a Zip...Baggie

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore how the grouping of organisms based on their shared derived characters forms the basis of a cladogram.
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Curated OER

Why Do We Need Vitamin C in Our Diet?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare/contrast the DNA sequence data of the rat GULO gene to the inactive human GULO gene. They translate and align the sequences, and propose a scenario to explain the occurrence of an inactive DNA sequence to that of an...
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Curated OER

A Tree Full of Ancestors

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study human evolution and the scientific process. They complete the Origins of Humankind Web activity to become familiar with the hominid species as well as the associated evidence found, in the form of fossils and artifacts.
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Curated OER

Calculating the Average Mass of the Newly Discovered Element: Bean

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Learners determine the average mass of a new element using masses from three isotopes. In this chemistry lesson, students explain what an isotope is. They discuss their importance and uses.
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Curated OER

How Can You Study Things You Can’t See Like: Atoms?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students simulate how scientists studied things they can't see like atoms. In this chemistry lesson, students predict what is inside the numbered obsertainers. They design a way to investigate what's inside without opening it.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The Nature of Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teaching box engages middle and high school students in the Nature of Science - what it is and what it isn't - along with activities to ensure engagement and enhance science understanding explicitly.
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Other

Denver Museum of Nature & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is the homepage of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Find out everything you'd want to know for planning a visit and see what exhibitions are currently showing.
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University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Nature of Science

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A great beginner's guide to examining the nature of science. Covers the basics of how science helps us to understand the surrounding world.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Rutherford's Enlarged: A Content Embedded Activity on Nature of Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through a study of Ernest Rutherford's experiments with atomic structure, students develop a deeper understanding of the nature of science. The activity is taken from a linked article by the author that was published in the Journal of...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: The Nature of Science: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Answer five comprehension check questions about the nature of science in this interactive quiz.
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University of California

Understanding Evolution: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the processes behind the nature of science.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of classroom lessons to help high school biology teachers teach evolution and the nature of science. This highly lab-oriented module is a very useful evolution and deep-time teaching site.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Science as Storytelling for Teaching the Nature of Science

For Teachers 10th - 12th
For this activity, students first read an essay entitled Science As Storytelling, then respond to the questions accompanying it. The purpose of the lesson is for students to develop a deeper understanding of science as more than just...
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Science for All Americans Online: The Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of how scientists look at the world. Written in a way that the average person can understand, it opens up the world of science to everyone.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
In this online course, students look at the big ideas and themes of biology and review how these ideas are used to develop scientific inquiry and research.
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Other

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Follow a Fossil

For Students 9th - 10th
Students examine paleontology, the study of ancient life on Earth. Some topics explored are vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants.
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Other

Denver Museum of Nature and Science: What's the Weather Like Today? [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Weather is all around us. We can see it, feel it, touch it, hear it, and even taste it. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere with respect to temperature, humidity, wind, and other factors. Some of the many weather conditions...
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California State University

Csun: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
This California State University Northridge essay on the "Nature of Science, the Scientific Method, and Measurement" includes a historical perspective.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Nature of Science

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition and goal of science and how science advances.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Presents science as a group effort and covers how science information is communicated and shared.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry: Nature of Science

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition and goal of science and how science advances.
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Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: The Nature of Science and Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the scientific reasoning and critical thinking to take an in-depth look at the basics of biology.

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