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The Great Volume Exchanger...or the Magic Matter Maker ®

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners pour water into a "magic" box and examine how it comes out with a much larger volume of water. They, working in small groups, design a volume exchanger and explain its design to the whole class.
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Palpating Pachyderms: How Do We Interpret Observations?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students interpret a poem before completing activities to distinguish observations and interpretations. They examine how personal background can influence how a person interpreters what they observe.
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Cladistics Is a Zip...Baggie

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils explore how the grouping of organisms based on their shared derived characters forms the basis of a cladogram.
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Blocks And Screws (or "screwy Contrivances")

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners, given a block of wood and a screw or nail, are asked to put that screw or nail into a block. They examine how many contrivances and other imperfections found in living things are best explained by the process of evolution.
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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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What Can Pseudogenes Tell Us About Common Ancestry?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare/constrast DNA sequence data for a portion of the rat GULO gene to the corresponding sequence in the inactive GULO gene in humans, chimpanzees, orangutans, and crab-eating macaques by identifying the shared sequences in...
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How Things Fly

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Students research the mechanics of flight and create a slideshow with one slide dedicated to each of these topics: lift, drag, thrust, and weight. They create a short quiz regarding the material that they presented and give it to their...
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The Periodic Table

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders examine the history and development of the periodic table and properties of elements. They complete worksheets, take notes during a teacher-led discussion, and produce their own periodic table.
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Landfill Lounge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars accurately construct a model of a sanitary landfill and identify the parts of the landfill and explain their function. They work in grous using a clear plastic box, modeling clay, soil and a variety of garbage to create...
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Weather Proverbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate various concepts related to weather. They conduct historical research to see how the study of weather originated and the application of the latest technologies in the field. Students summarize the information with...
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Cloud Discovery

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a HyperStudio stack that describes and illustrates twelve different kinds of clouds. They then make inferences about which types of weather the different types of clouds could help predict.
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Water Quality of Local Lakes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners research the quality of water in a regional lake of West Bloomfield in the past and present. They compare conditions of the lake, past and present. They then give examples of local and regional human activities that may have had...
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Archaeological Finds

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students demonstrate the goals and methods of archaeology and write a report of an archaeological dig at a site associated with a specific culture. They explore the science of archaeology and how it contributes to the understanding of...
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Making a Taxonomic Key

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students work as a team of abalone taxonomists who examine and classify abalones based on their shell characteristics of the four most common species. They also study the visible details of each species shell, make notes and eventually...

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