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Serc: Iron in My Cereal
Students will investigate the ingredients found in different cereals to find the amount of iron in each cereal. After their findings, students will write a short report explain their results.
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Serc: Investigating Wolf Behavior
In this classroom activity, students will observe different wolf behavior, facial expressions and body language to identify as either submissive or dominant behavior. Wolfs are observed in photos and short movie clips. Students will also...
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Serc: Investigation of Pitch and Rate of Vibration
An inquiry lesson where students explore pitch and the rate of vibration. Students will look at how the rate of vibration which creates pitch is affected by the size of the object studied.
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Serc: Is Greenland Melting?
An activity where learners monitor the thickness of ice sheets found in Greenland by looking at photographs, map views, and tabular data. During this activity, students will make a conclusion to whether the ice sheets are melting.
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Serc: Landscape Regions
A lab activity where students study the" relationships between landscape appearance, topography and underlying geology". In this particular activity students explore the landscape region of New York State to see the effects of...
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Serc: Isolation of Pure Cultures of Bacteria
A web page that gives activities for use of bioluminescent organisms in the classroom. Specifically on the page is "an isolation protocol for the bioluminescent bacteria Vibrio phosphoreum".
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Serc: Lab: Horizontally Launched Projectiles (With Uncertainty Analysis)
This lab takes a "time- tested" lab and puts a new spin on it by using the uncertainty of all measurements and uncertainty of their prediction. Students will use this measurement technique while using the kinematics equation to predict...
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Serc: Lab 1: Think Globally: Act Locally
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores Earth Science Systems. This lab introduces students to the parts of the Earth system: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and pedosphere. As the students learn about the...
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Serc: Lab 2: Drawing Local Connections
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores Earth Science Systems. In this lab, students study the four components of the Earth system by diagraming the flow of energy and matter through it.
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Serc: Lab 4: A Bird's Eye View: Exploring Your Region
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will investigate their region by using Google Earth and predicting what...
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Serc: Lab 5: It's All Connected: Global Circulation
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. During this lab, students will focus on the pathways of wind and water to and from their location...
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Serc: Lab 6: Air, Water, Land, & Life: A Global Perspective
An investigation that is part of a series of lab lessons that expose students to Earth Systems through research, data, and visualizations. In this lab, students will follow the pathway of water on a big scale and a small scale down to...
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Serc: Lab 1: Coral Reefs: The Human View
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates coral. During this lab, students will experience coral reefs by watching the IMAX film Coral Reef Adventure. After watching the movie, students will examine coral and its...
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Serc: Lab 2: Anatomy of Coral
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates coral. In this activity, students will use a microscope to examine the feeding behavior of a hydra, a fresh-water relative of coral. They will also observe the characteristic...
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Serc: Lab 3: Building a Reef
Students learn how corals grow and reproduce in this lab about the life cycle of corals. During this lab, students will model reef formation. This lab is part of a series of experiments that investigate coral.
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Serc: Lab 4: Finding Coral's Ideal Environment
An investigation that is part of series of lab lessons where students study coral. In this particular experiment, students explore the optimal environmental conditions for coral to survive. Students will study temperature, water depth,...
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Serc: Lab 5: Trouble in Paradise: Factors That Impact Coral Health
Students examine the status of coral reefs around the world using an online geographic information system (GIS). They also investigate some of the major factors that disrupt corals-watersheds, exploitive fishing, coastal development, and...
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Serc: Lab 6: Using Data to Identify Hot Spots and Predict Bleaching Events
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates coral. In this particular lab, students look at data to study the concepts of coral bleaching, bleaching hot spots, and degree-heating weeks.
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Serc: Lab 3: Land Ice
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates climate and the cryosphere. Here you can learn about how glaciers form. Understand how glaciers offers scientist evidence for climate change. Lab includes both an online...
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Serc: Lab 6: Future of the Cryosphere
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that investigates climate and the cryosphere. In this lab, students predict what Earth's climate may be like in the future based on models. They also predict how warming temperature and melting...
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Serc: Lab 1: Where's the Water?
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores drought. Here students look at the availability of world's fresh water by investigating graphics and analyzing data to see where the world's water supply is going.
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Serc: Lab 3: Normal Climate Patterns
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. In this lab, students analyze data to determine what a normal climate should be.
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Serc: Lab 4: When Precipitation Patterns Change
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. This lab has students looking at precipitation data to define what a drought and predict drought conditions.
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Serc: Lab 5: Droughts of the Past
A lab experiment in a series of experiments that explores droughts. In this activity, students investigate droughts of the past by watching a PBS video and examining maps and animations of drought patterns.