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How Does Your Garden Grow?
Pupils identify what plants need to grow. In this plant biology lesson plan, students analyze the differences between an artificial plant and a live plant. Pupils plant seeds and discuss what plants need to grow. Students observe the...
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Milkweed Monitoring
Ninth graders study milkweed and see how it is effected by ozone. In this air pollution lesson students complete a lab activity that includes data analysis.
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Let's Learn About Lettuce
Learners learn more about lettuce. In this agriculture lesson plan, students listen to their instructor lecture about the history of lettuce. Learners then participate in an activity that requires them to compare and contrast iceberg...
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Aquaculture Production Systems Worksheet
In this aquaculture production systems worksheet, students compare ponds, cages, raceways, and recirculating systems. Students compare these in 4 categories.
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Biomass: The Energy of the Future
Students research renewable fuels. In this alternative energy lesson, students compile information and create a comparison chart on renewable resources. This lesson includes additional suggested readings, vocabulary, and a Biomass...
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Food Chains and Webs--- "What's for dinner?"
Students study food chains and how the organisms are linked. In this investigative activity students answer food chain questions, and fill out several worksheets.
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Eat Your Plants
Students explore fruits and vegetables. In this fruits and vegetables instructional activity, students work in small groups investigating plant parts. Students discover that fruits and vegetables originate from different parts of plants.
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Arctic Food Web
Students research animals found in the arctic. They discuss what living things need in order to survive and where they get their food. Students discuss the difference between producers and consumers and create a food web for animals in...
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Energy Flow - How Much Biomass do Plants Produce?
Students explore the concept of biomass. In this plant lesson, students conduct a scientific investigation that requires them to observe plant growth and biomass.
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Sugar and Light
High schoolers connect starch to sugar as the storage form of energy. They find that no starch is produced in the plant without light. Students perform the old favorite of looking at starch deposition in geranium leaves using Lugol's...
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Cells Vocabulary List and Definitions
In this cells worksheet, students learn the important vocabulary pertaining to cell biology. Students read 14 words with their definitions. There are no questions to answer.
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Cells
In this cell worksheet, students read a short passage about simple cells or ground cells found in stems and leaves of plants. Students then answer four questions about the text.
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Cell Processes and Energy
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to cell processes and energy. There are 19 biology terms located in the word search.
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Plant and Animal Cell Structure
Seventh graders identify the different parts and functions of the cell. In this biology lesson, 7th graders make a labelled diagram of either a plant or animal cell. They write a story about it.
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Building an Organic Molecule
Glucose is a simple sugar and a molecule that can be illustrated through modeling. Scientific investigators with visual impairments use hands-on models to reconstruct the process of bonding molecules. The tools used in this activity are...
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Photosynthetic Word Search
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms related to photosynthetic process. There are 32 biology terms located in the word search.
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The Structure and Function of Cells: Making Biology Fun
Investigate life below a microscope, and cells and discover the differences between plant and animal cells.
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What is Air?
Learners investigate air by participating in a class experiment. In this matter measurement lesson, students identify air as a gas which consists of mass. Learners utilize a windsock or balloon to measure oxygen and explore it's true...
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Dissolved Oxygen Lesson
Students investigate what dissolved oxygen is and why it is important to aquatic life and what factors influence levels of dissolved oxygen in a lake. They study how to use MS Excel to make charts to show trends and correlations.
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Water Quality and Temperature
Students are led through three activities to explore the effect of temperature fluctuations on the growth and survival of aquatic plants, clams, and shrimp eggs.
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Desert Dynamics
Fourth graders examine the various types of plants and animals found in the deserts of Utah. In groups, they discover how the plants and animals have adapted to the harsh environment. To end the instructional activity, they compare and...
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Chloroplasts and Pigments
In this plant pigments worksheet, students compare the function of 3 types of pigments: chlorophylls, carotenoids, and phycobilins. This worksheet has 23 fill in the blank, 3 drawing, and 2 short answer questions.
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Desert Dynamics
Students investigate the plants and animals found in Utah deserts and how these organisms have adapted to their environment. They brainstorm ways that desert plants are different from or similar to wetland plants.