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The Membrane Potential

For Students 9th - 12th
Give this summary of 16 pages of a text to your class to deepen understanding of cell permeability, diffusion, ions, and more. The handout portion includes vocabulary clarifications, detailed color diagrams, and important information;...
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Living Environment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this environment worksheet students complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions on organisms, reproduction, DNA and cell division.
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Launch Biotechnology into Your Classroom: Drug Delivery and Diffusion

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students distinguish between diffusion and osmosis and describe ways that drugs can be administered.  In this diffusion lesson plan students research career paths and create a presentation to give to the class. 
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Sugar Solutions

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study biological systems and how they reach equilibrium.  In this system balance lesson plan students divide into groups and complete an osmosis lab activity.
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Osmosis and Diffusion: Egg Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine why diffusion and osmosis happen in an egg cell.  In this diffusion lesson students demonstrate a semi permeable membrane.
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Properties of Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the properties of matter. In this properties of matter lesson, students observe containers of different metals and discuss their properties including density. Students find the density of an unknown metal and of...
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Mystical Membrane

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate osmosis, diffusion and a semi-permeable membrane. In this cell membrane lesson plan, students observe the movement of molecules out of a bag filled with sugar and starch into a beaker of water. They test the beaker...
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Osmosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners investigate osmosis and diffusion in a liquid environment. For this osmosis lesson plan, students use dialysis tubing made into bags and filled with 3 different solutions. They observe the movement of water molecules into higher...
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Diffusion

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate diffusion using different solutions of chemicals placed in agar dishes. In this diffusion lesson plan, students observe 3 demonstrations of diffusion using perfume, food coloring in water and sugar cubes in water....
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Movement Across the Membrane (Diffusion)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concept of diffusion and how materials enter and leave a cell. In this movement across a membrane lesson plan, students use perfume, food coloring in water and a sugar cube in water to observe diffusion. They...
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The Effects of Osmotic Balance and Imbalance In Living Cells

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate osmotic balance in living cells. In this osmotic balance lesson plan, students use elodea leaves to study the effects of salt solutions on the cell. They compare the changes in an elodea leaf with salt water on it to...
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Diffusion Through a Membrane

For Students 9th - 12th
In this diffusion through a membrane worksheet, students fill in the blanks to complete 27 statements about cell membranes, the movement of molecules across the cell membrane, concentration gradients and diffusion.
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Dispersement of Particles: Diffusion and Osmosis

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore the dispersement of particles. In this science lesson plan, students describe the many ways in which particles move and transfer from one source to other areas.
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Biotechnology: Drug Delivery and Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars discover advances in biomedical technology such as transdermal delivery and other non-invasive procedures. In lab activities, they examine how medication is given and how molecules travel, observe electrophoresis, and...
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Smelly Balloons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of diffusion through a membrane. They do this through the conduction of a simple experiment. Students make observations while determining if the smell of different chemicals seeps through the...
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Chemistry in Soil-Plant Relationship

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students apply the science of chemistry to soil and plant relationships. They define diffusion and indicate for which of these nutrient(s) would you expect diffusion to be the most important for movement to the plant root? Pupils...
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Cell 5 Diffusion and Osmosis

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students distinguish between active and passive transport. Students identify key words associated with active and passive transport. They draw and explain the structure f the cellular membrane. They are able to define phospholipid...
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Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students design and carry out an experiment according to the scientific method. The experiment must test the effects of time and concentration on the rate of diffusion of potassium permanganate into potato cubes. After performing the...
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SA/V Ratio and Rate of Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students calculate the SA/V ratio and volume of phenophthalien agar that are cut into different shapes. They then let ammonia diffuse into the various pieces of agar and determine the effect that SA/V had on the rate of diffusion.
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Mirror Mirror

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in an experiment to help them explain specular and diffusion reflection.
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Graham's Law Of Diffusion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers demonstrate Graham's Law by observing a gaseous diffusion. After a lecture/demo, students perform an experiment then complete a write up activity which is imbedded in this plan to reinforce what they have observed during...
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Vocabulary - The Gas Laws

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
For this gas laws worksheet, students use textbooks and dictionaries to find the definitions of 20 terms associated with the gas laws.
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AP Biology Lab Review

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A seventy-two slide PowerPoint that reviews several lab explorations done in an AP Biology course. For each lab there is a description, concepts, and conclusions. Many pictures and graphics make this visually appealing, but it would not...
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Why is the Sky Blue?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore diffusion or scattering of light. For this physics lesson, students explain why the sky is blue and sunsets/sunrises are red.