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Statistics Education Web

The Case of the Careless Zookeeper

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Herbivores and carnivores just don't get along. Using a box of animal crackers, classes collect data about the injury status of herbivores and carnivores in the box. They complete the process of chi-square testing on the data from...
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Virginia Department of Education

Heat Loss from a Fur-Insulated Animal

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How do animals adapt to weather changes? Provide your class with the ability to understand adaptations and body temperature as they participate in this hands on experiment, using fake fur and hot water. Pupils collect data and analyze...
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Curated OER

Hawaiian Bird Beak Adaptation

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students explore adaptation by participating in a lab activity. In this bird characteristics lesson, students discuss the different purposes birds have for their beaks and conduct an experiment testing which beaks collect food best....
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Curated OER

Testing for Catalase Activity

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this catalase worksheet, learners read about how enzymes work in cells. Then students conduct an experiment to test for catalase activity in potatoes. This worksheet has 1 graph and 6 short answer questions.
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Science Matters

Spaghetti Fault Model

For Teachers 6th Standards
Does increasing the pressure between two moving plates provide a stabilizing force or create more destruction? The hands-on lesson encourages exploration of strike-split fault models. The sixth lesson in a 20-part series asks scholars to...
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Virginia Department of Education

Adaptation and Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Um may be the atomic symbol for confusion, but it won't be needed in this lesson. Scholars rotate through seven stations completing experiments, hands-on activities, writing exercises, and analysis. Stations include material on...
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Curated OER

Aquaculture Production in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the basics of aquaculture and how to successfully raise aquatic plants and animals.  In this water lesson students perform water quality tests on fish tanks, record and graph their results. 
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Virginia Department of Education

Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Get your class outside to observe their surroundings with a instructional activity highlighting weather patterns and seasonal changes. First, learners take a weather walk to survey how the weather affects animals, people, plants, and...
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Virginia Department of Education

Body Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
The human body is an amazing thing! Explore the body with your high school class as they investigate each system in detail. They learn components of each organ system and disease processes that can negatively affect general health and...
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Curated OER

Hare vs. the Tortoise

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify and create questions and hypotheses, dependent and independent variables and form a conclusion that can be answered and tested through scientific experimental investigation. In this relationship lesson, 7th...
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Curated OER

What Does It Eat?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, working in research teams, investigate the eating habits of crickets. They collect and record data and compare their methods and results with other groups by making tables or graphs. They sumarize their findings with posters or...
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Curated OER

Isopod Activity

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students enter information and compare relationships that they are measuring.
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Curated OER

Not Just a Fish Tank

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students learn about a specific species of fish, study the effects of outside substances on the reproductive development of a fish, and explore the process of a wastewater treatment facility.

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