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Lesson Plan
NASA

Microbes @ Nasa: Science Lesson Plan: Day One Microscope Activity [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A middle school experiment on the cell structure of cyanobacteria.
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Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Garden Lesson Plans: Investigation: Pollen Collection [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After learning about what pollen is, its health effects, as well as how it benefits humans, students take part in a lab activity. For this, they collect schoolyard pollen on slides, stain it, and then examine it under a microscope.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Activity: Is There Really Life on Mars?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) activity explores the controversy over whether or not there is life on Mars. Part of the Mysteries of Deep Space Program that originally aired in April 1997, the activity includes instructional...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Blood Cell Basics

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this lesson students learn about the circulatory system and how it relates to engineering. Then in a hands-on activity they create a model of blood. Students also act out cholesterol in a blocked artery and look at blood cell in a...