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To See or Not to See
Students identify and discuss key factors that determine how effective color camouflage is in certain habitats. In this investigative lesson students divide into groups and study light.
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Entering the Twilight Zone
Students describe major features of cold seep communities and list organisms that are found in these communities. In this water habitat lesson plan students examine trophic levels, describe the process of chemosynthesis and...
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Fighting Invisible Enemies
Students examine antibiotics, what they do and what things were like before we had them. In this antibiotics lesson students research bacteria and antibiotics then as a group prepare a written report.
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Digital Wildflower Collection
Students examine biodiversity and classify organisms. In this wildflower lesson plan students go out and take pictures of plants then create a presentation to show the class.
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Life is Weird
Learners describe features of cold seep communities and list organisms that can be found in these communities. In this exploratory lesson students complete an activity and describe the process of chemosynthesis.
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Mayflies on the Move!
Seventh graders investigate mayflies and their environment. In this biology lesson plan students examine the relationship between the mayfly and the water quality of Lake Erie.
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Chemosynthesis in the Classroom
High schoolers observe the development of chemosynthesis in bacterial communities. In this bacteria lesson students explore that chemosynthesis is and how it is relevant to biological communities.
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Water Ecology Lab
Students determine the characteristics of a stream ecosystem and its organisms. For this water ecology lesson students complete several labs that shows them presence of life, water appearance, and water flow.
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Biochemistry Detectives
Learners explore the process of chemosynthesis and relate it to the biological communities in cold seeps. For this biochemistry lesson students interpret analyses of enzyme activity and draw inferences about organisms in cold seep...
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Aquatic Foodweb
Students explore what a food web is. In this science lesson, students examine how nutrients and other pollutants enter a lake and play a food web game whereby students pretend they are either zooplankton, planktivore,...
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Tree of Life: lineage
In this organism worksheet, students use the website provided to trace the lineage of an organism. Students complete 17 lineage lines.
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Life is Weird
Students describe features of cold seep communities and investigate five organisms that live there. In this biological organisms instructional activity students research a given species and give an oral presentation on their...
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Climate and Temperature
Students explore what the soil temperature would be on the north and south sides of a building. In this temperature lesson plan, students hypothesize what the results will be using a thermometer and then after a week see what...
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Seabird Survival Adaptation Card Game
Pupils study seabirds and how they have adapted to their environments. In this activity based lesson students will play a card game that will allow them to have a better understanding of seabirds and their adaptations.
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Symbiotic Relationships
Seventh graders research types of symbiotic relationships on the Internet and explain what the effects would be in one of the species disappears. For this investigative lesson students use the Internet to do research then...
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Diverse Life Forms of the Ocean
Students recognize marine organisms and differentiate between plankton and nekton. In this investigative instructional activity students create a concept map using their list of terms and study marine life forms.
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Drifting Downward
Students study the effects of different salients and temperatures on vertical movement of an organism. In this experimental lesson students design different shapes of foil to simulate drifting planktonic organisms.
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How Hot is Too Hot?
Fifth graders use the scientific method to conduct experiments on the temperature effects on organisms. For this temperature effects on organisms lesson plan, 5th graders observe and record the hatching or the developing of organisms...
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Creepy Critters
Students classify imaginary newly discovered organisms. In this classification lesson, students are given cards showing imaginary organisms that have been recently discovered. They must classify the organisms based on their characteristics.
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Symmetry in Nature
For this symmetry worksheet, students put organisms into categories of having line symmetry or rotational symmetry and answer questions about them. Students put 8 organisms into the chart and answer 3 questions.
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Biology: Humans as Organisms
Students examine body systems. In this biology lesson, students explore the roles of different body systems and discover the effects of smoking, drugs, alcohol, exercise, and good nutrition on human body systems.
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Classification of Organisms
In this classification of organisms worksheet, students use a classification key to identify organisms, then go to a website for help in making up their own classification key.
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I Am Unique
Students study traits of organisms including genetics and inheritance. In this genetic traits lesson plan, students complete a shared reading and discuss the 6 traits of uniqueness. Students sort themselves by specific traits and chart...
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Living Organisms Digital Scavenger Hunt
Students photograph living organisms. In this plan for a field trip, students go to a local park or pond and photograph themselves with various living organisms on their scavenger hunt list. The photographs taken are compiled into a...