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Alcohol and Pregnancy Don't Mix!

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders learn about John Kellerman, a youngster who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. They learn how alcohol and pregnancy doesn't mix.
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The Nash Case -- Identifying, Choosing and Using Genes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars complete a variety of exercises as they examine the case of the Nash family who conceived one child in order to provide cells that may be used in a cell transplant for a dying sibling.
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Diabetes Lesson Plans

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students can be educated about diabetes, nutrition, and exercise through these lesson plans.
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Cloning

For Students 9th - 12th
For this cloning worksheet, students will read a paragraph about how cloning has been a benefit to medicine and agriculture. Students will underline the main idea in the paragraph and write down three supporting details. Then students...
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Cancer Causes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners explore why people get cancer. They explore human cells by taking a close examine their own. take a small sample of the epithelial cells that line the inside of their mouth. They glimpse how scientists investigate inside cells.
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History Detective

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study the effects of the Great Exchange on the Americas.
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A Hard Sell on Stem Cells?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners examine their prior knowledge of cell regeneration and therapeutic use of stem cells. After reading an article, they discover new techniques for deriving embryonic stem cells. In groups, they research on the different types of...
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Mountaineering: How Our Bodies Acclimatize

For Students 9th - 12th
In this mountaineering and acclimatization worksheet, high schoolers read about the changes that take place in the blood as the body acclimatizes to high altitude. They answer three critical thinking questions about acclimatization.
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The Challenge to Deliver Insulin

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students study the types of diabetes and why insulin is important.  For this diabetes lesson students build molecular models and create a healthy lifestyle plan. 
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Heredity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, middle schoolers find the answers to various types of heredity problems. They use the sheet to set goals for completing the unit.
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Diversity

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students access prior knowledge of the five senses and relate to students with disabilities. In this people with disabilities instructional activity, students research and use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast famous people and...
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Race Toward a Cure

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students come to explain how the presence of a mutation in the BRCA-1 or BRCA-2 gene, along with another acquired sometime after birth, affect the chances developing breast cancer.
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Hazardous Chemicals in Your Neighborhood

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the effect of hazardous chemicals on humans. They discover how the chemicals are cleaned up and the facilities in their neighborhood. They identify federal and local agencies that oversee environmental hazards
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Using Abiotic and Biotic Parameters to Monitor Air Quality

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students identify the abiotic factors that influence a river or stream and the organisms that live in it. They measure several abiotic and biotic parameters to gauge water quality. Students examine the biotic environment by identifying...
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Biodiversity - Who Cares?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students articulate some of the impacts of loss of biodiversity. They play a game that demonstrates why having a rich variety of life is important to the survival of ecosystems and how invasive species are threatening local biodiversity.
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Pollinator Habitats

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students read and discuss background information included with this lesson. They brainstorm the best sources for developing a list of native or migratory pollinators. Students work in groups to design habitats based on information...
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Viruses

For Students 9th - 12th
In this virus activity, students answer questions about viruses, the parts of a virus and how viruses reproduce through the lytic and lysogenic cycle.
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Engineering Redesign

For Teachers 4th - 8th
You can use these hands on lessons to get kids excited about the field of engineering!
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Pedigree Charts

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students explain how offspring inherit traits from their parents. In this biology lesson, students investigate the genes for nicotine addiction using an interactive website. They construct a fictional pedigree using their chosen...
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Passive in Context

For Students 5th - 10th
In this tense instructional activity, students read the sentences or phrases and choose which tense they are written in. Students complete 10 problems total.
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Cancer Risks

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learnersbrainstorm ideas about Cancer and its couses. They read an article which describes communities in the United States that have been affected by high rates of cancer and information which describes hereditary factors that...
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A Priceless Collection

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students read and discuss the background of plants, seeds, and gene banks and grow seeds on their own. In this seeds lesson plan, students also use maps to identify seed banks and research plant farmers.
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The Challenge to Deliver Insulin

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate these fundamental chemical and cellular processes. They recognize the long-term danger that comes from a diet of fast food, chips, and soda, realize that avoiding diabetes is their responsibility, and establish...
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Apoptosis: Programmed Cell Death During Development

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students model the plasticity of neural pathways for memory in the brain. They simulate the cell activity according to dots on cards that they are given. They complete various simulations of different cell combinations.

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