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Jeopardy 8th Grade (Science)

For Teachers 7th - 8th
There are so many topics touched upon in this Jeopardy-style science game, that it is difficult to classify! The categories include electricity, matter, ecology, earth and space, and scientific investigation. This would best be used at...
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Light - Plant Science Chapter #8

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A brief presentation provides notes on light for agriculture pupils. Topics covered are light quality and duration, how resulting temperatures affect crop selection, vernilization, and bolting. Even though this is titled "Light," it...
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Factors Affecting the Rate of Photosynthesis

For Students 9th - 12th
In this photosynthesis worksheet, learners explore the 3 major factors that affect the rate of photosynthesis. This worksheet has 6 short answer questions.
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Key Scientists in Photosynthesis Research

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this photosynthesis worksheet, learners use a textbook to research the different scientists involved in the discovery of the process of photosynthesis. This worksheet has 31 fill in the blank questions.
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Creatures That Glow In The Night

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the different bioluminescent organisms. They use microscopes in order to make observations and draw what is seen. Students demonstrate they have studies the differences between the process of photosynthesis and...
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Deep-Sea Ecosystems – Chemosynthesis for the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Photosynthesis was discovered in the 1770s, but chemosynthesis wasn't discovered until 1977. While many have performed an experiment to show how photosynthesis works, the activity allows pupils to observe chemosynthesis. Scholars set up...
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Producers Make Their Own Food

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
During an inquiry-based lesson, scholars decide which variable to test and then design an experiment to determine the needs of producers. After two weeks, they complete a full analysis and research paper.
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Benefits of Indoor Plants

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars diagram a plant. In this Science instructional activity, students explore the concept of photosynthesis focusing on the oxygen production. Young scholars calculate the amount of plants needed to filter the air in their...
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Biology Junction

Protists

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Protists carry out around 40 percent of all photosynthesis on Earth. Pupils view a presentation focused entirely on protists. It focuses on reproduction, structure, function, the benefits, and the dangers introduced by these tiny plants. 
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Leaf, Tree and Prairie Study

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students are introduced to the topic of Botany and the process of photosynthesis. Using various habitats, they research the amount of destruction it is facing and how to solve the problem. They make a leaf booklet with leaves they find...
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Using Spectrophotometers to Examine Photosynthetic Rates

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine how photosynthetic rates can change by using different qualities of light. They practice using spectrophotometer and the scientific method to detect the absorbance values in light treatments.
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It Ain't Easy Being Green!

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Pupils explore the needs of plants. In this science lesson, students plant seeds and place one in a sunny spot and the other in a dark area. Pupils observe what happens.
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Stomata

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore what the stoma does for a plant.  In this botany lesson students complete a stomatal peel experiment and measure its densities.
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Plant Sleuth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars learn about the parts of a plant, and how plants live and grow.
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Glucose Factory

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders determine, through laboratory activity, the presence or absence of glucose in a variety of plant leaves and stems. They work in groups and perform a three part laboratory which shows them how plants convert sunlighht to food.
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Food Webs

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.
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Food Webs

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students create a bulletin board display illustrating food chains they make from a list of ocean organisms. Students also play a game showing what happens when one of the organisms is removed from the food chain and how they are all...
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Producers and Energy Transfer

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders discuss the relationship between producers, consumers, and decomposers as they look at the energy pyramid. While working in small groups, they create an ecosystem that includes all or some of the given categories, and they...
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Energy in Cells

For Students 9th
In this biology instructional activity, 9th graders explain how producers make their own food. Then they describe the food chain and what the end products are of respiration. Students also describe how muscles continue to get energy...
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A Walk in the Woods

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders observe and identify the different levels of the forest.  In this forest zones instructional activity students observe, identify and name a variety of forest components and describe how humans impact the forest ecosystem. 
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Using A Winogradsky Column to Analyze Microbial Communities

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars use easily obtained materials to study ecological succession in a microbiological community. This investigation is appropriate for a variety of age groups. Elementary Students be fascinated by the changes occurring over...
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Science: Leaf Study

For Teachers 1st
First graders go on a leaf-hunting expedition around the schoolyard. They determine from which trees they fell using identification cards. Students read several books about leaves and apply their artistic skills by using the collected...
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Science: What Is the Carbon Cycle?

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine the carbon cycle while identifying its sources, sinks, and release agents. Using magazines and newspapers, groups of students design collages illustrating the carbon cycle. Finally, they write responses to several...
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Energy in a Cell

For Students 9th - 12th
In this energy worksheet, students describe how plants store energy and how animals use the energy stored in plants by answering 5 short answer questions.

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