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Handout
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing With Scientists With the American Museum of Natural History

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Follow this six-step method and you'll have a good understanding of what a good scientific research paper involves and how it is organized. There are plenty of samples for you to look at. This explanation is also very helpful for...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Worm Investigation to Explore Experimental Design

For Teachers 6th - 8th
For this lesson, students learn about how to design an experiment, factor in other potential effects, take observations, and record their findings. The experiment is done using worms in a lab setting.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Buoyancy, Density, and Fluid Principles: Make Mini Submarine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will use the scientific method to design an experiment that explains how/why a submarine floats and sinks.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Observations & Interpretations: Engaging Students in Classroom Experiments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use this method to emphasize and clarify for learners the importance of differentiating between observations and interpretations, and qualitative and quantitative observations. Students will learn how a hypothesis may change as new...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Creation of Dichotomous Keys From a Bio Blitz

For Teachers 6th - 8th
An outdoor lab where middle schoolers investigate the environment and decide a method of survey to identify trees in their area. To finish the exercise they will create a dichotomous key of the ten they identified.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Cube Puzzle and Toilet Paper Roll Model in Teaching the Nature of Science

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson incorporates inexpensive materials such as carton boxes, toilet paper roll tube, strings and toothpicks. It engages young scholars to conduct pattern observation, prediction, testing and ends up with a model construction. It...
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Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Chickscope: The Journey Begins

For Students 3rd - 8th
Journey with the chicken egg, from formation to hatching, and learn about its embryology.
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Lesson Plan
Pennsylvania State University

Penn State University: Embryology in the Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Come and learn more about how to incorporate embryology into your classroom. This site features tons of information about the embryology of chickens.
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Website
Other

Kiddy House: All About Chickens for Kids and Teachers

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive resource features everything you want to know about chickens. Students and teachers will "cluck" when they explore this site.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Magnet Muscles (Lesson Plan)

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A teacher lesson plan which includes a station lab; students navigate through four stations with separate activities on magnetic principles. Easily adaptable as a student project.