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Enzymes and Jell-O
Pupils test for the presence of enzymes in fruit and the specificity of those enzymes. They identify the susceptibility of enzymes to certain environmental factors such as temperature and pH in the enzymes environment.
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Investigating Factors That Affect Rate of Enzyme Action
Students explore the properties of enzymes. In this chemical reaction lesson, students explore enzymes through a Web-quest and investigative study. Students will collect and summarize data and create a class presentation. This lesson is...
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Enzyme Lab
Students examine the effects of specific enzymes on samples of liver tissue, muscle tissue (chicken), apples, and potatoes.
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Gelatin and Enzyme Lab
Students observe the effectiveness of detergents on breaking down proteins. For this investigative lesson students participate in an activity that shows how proteins are broken down in gelatin and fill out a worksheet.
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Reaction Rates-Catalysis, Concentration, Surface Area, and Temperature
Students determine the meanings of concentration, surface area, and catalysis through an experiment. In this instructional activity about chemical reactions, students participate in an experiment. Students complete three different parts...
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Enzymatic Action
Students observe how a cell uses an enzyme to rid itself of a poisonous substance by experimenting with hydrogen peroxide, potatoes, liver and carrots. They record the temperature and changes of the hydrogen peroxide as other elements...
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Chemical Reaction Rates
Students observe demonstrations to show factors that affect rates of chemical reactions. In this rates of chemical reactions lesson, students investigate how catalysts, reactant concentrations, temperature and surface area affect the...
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Standard 4 Review Sheet-Key Ideas Biology-The Living Environment
In this living environment worksheet, students answer a variety of questions about living organisms, the processes they go through to make food and break down food, absorb nutrients, and release toxins. They explain homeostasis, they...
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Energy and Metabolism
This four-page worksheet queries young biologists about the process of metabolism in the human body. They describe types of energy, laws of thermodynamics, and chemical reactions related to the processing of energy. Plenty of space is...
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How Much Energy Is That Anyway?
The fifth lesson plan in the six part series introduces units of energy including calories, Calories, and joules. Scholars determine the energy released when eating a snack and during activity.
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Alcoholic Fermentation in Yeast
Biology learners investigate the effect of sucrose concentration on yeast alcoholic fermentation. During the lesson,they compare and contrast the processes of cellular respiration and alcoholic fermentation. They design an experiment to...
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Chemical Energy
In this science worksheet, students read about enzymes and nutrition. Students also answer 2 comprehension questions about the reading.
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Amylase
Learners examine what amylase is and its history. In this digestive instructional activity students study the effect amylase has on starch and how temperature affects the rate of activity.
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Testing for Catalase Activity
In this catalase activity, students read about how enzymes work in cells. Then students conduct an experiment to test for catalase activity in potatoes. This activity has 1 graph and 6 short answer questions.
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Polymerase Chain Reaction Activity
Students explain the importance and function of enzymes. They compare and contrast the processes of DNA replication and polymerase chain reactions. They practice using new vocabulary as well.
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Physical and Chemical Properties of Water
How can you effectively provide detailed concepts of water properties to your high school class in a way they find exciting and challenging at the same time? By letting them play, of course! Through a variety of experiments, pupils...
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Lactose Intolerance
Students are taught how enzymes enable chemical reactions to occur a body temperature and how the lack of enzymes in the body can cause problems in the break-down and absorpion of nutrients. They match up different enzymes with the...
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Enzymatic Reaction
Students explore the effect enzymes have on reactions. They demonstrate the process of enzymatic reaction by making cheese. after experimentation, they answer a series of questions.
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Rennet Cultured Cheese
Fifth graders make cheese using two different methods. In this cheese making lesson, 5th graders make rennet cultured cheese following the step by step directions. They also make cheese using a genetically engineered bacteria that makes...
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Microbe Experimentation: Sour Milk
Sixth graders design and conduct an experiment with milk to investigate how temperature affects bacteria growth. They, in groups, construct a hypothesis, perform the experiment and then record and present the results.
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Rate Law Problems
In this rate law worksheet, students calculate the rate of reactions at specific temperatures with the given rate law for the reaction. This worksheet has 5 problems to solve.
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Jeopardy
Learners played a game of Jeopardy where there was five categories with five questions each in order to assess the retention of concepts taught over the semester. The categories included: Graphing/Summarizing/ Scientific Method, Gravity,...
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The Digestive System: Where Does Food Go?
Would you believe that your digestive system stretches to five times your height?! Help your pupils to understand this relationship as they work through the laboratory exercise. The first instructional activity of a 12-part series is a...
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Chemistry of Carbon
After giving basic details about the properties of carbon, some of the common functional groups and molecules are featured. There is some information about specific functions and impact on the human body. The diagrams are helpful and...