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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Active and Passive Transport: Red Rover Send Particles Over

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and contrast passive and active transport by playing a game to model this phenomenon. Movement through cell membranes is also modeled, as well as the structure and movement typical of the fluid mosaic model of the cell...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Organic Solar Energy and Berries

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about how a device made with dye from a plant, specifically cherries, blackberries, raspberries and/or black currents, can be used to convert light energy into electrical energy. They do this by building their own organic...
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Diffusion

For Students 9th - 10th
An activity to understand how diffusion is a result of random motion and collisions of particles. With the virtual labs, explore how a drop of food coloring into a glass spreads and how perfume diffuses at different temperatures and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How to Make Yeast Cells Thrive

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students set up and run the experiments they designed in the lesson Population Growth in Yeasts, using simple yeast-molasses cultures in test tubes. Population growth is indicated by the amount of respiration occurring in the cultures,...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Apoptosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource explains apoptosis (programmed cell death) and how it is different from necrosis (cell death due to injury).
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Website
University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: The Basics and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
This website offers a clear definition of the science of Genetics, highlighting DNA and genes. There is a neat, easy-to-understand animated tour of the basics and an opportunity to go inside an animated cell. Student can build a DNA...
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Handout
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Biotechnology

For Students 9th - 10th
Students read through a complete, interactive lesson on biotechnology. An activity at the end allows students to research and present arguments for or against statements about the ethics of gene therapy and gene manipulation.
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Activity
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Cellular Respiration

For Students 9th - 10th
Web-based activity provides an opportunity for students to study cellular respiration in an up-close and personal way. By following atoms and molecules through an interactive animation, they will be able to see the changes that take...
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Lesson Plan
Other

The Plant Cell: Teaching Tools in Plant Biology: Why Study Plants?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Plants are essential for all life and development. Teach your students about this incredible lifeforce with this teaching guide, lecture notes, and PowerPoint presentation. [PDF]
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Breathing Cells

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use a simple pH indicator to measure how much CO2 is produced during respiration, at rest and after exercising. They begin by comparing some common household solutions in order to determine the color change of the indicator....
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Electrons on the Move

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn about current electricity and necessary conditions for the existence of an electric current. Students construct a simple electric circuit and a galvanic cell to help them understand voltage, current and resistance.
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Website
American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Aaas)

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Association for the Advancement of Science calls itself "The World's Largest General Scientific Society." Here you will find up-to-date news on scientific discoveries, including the EurekAlert! which has breaking news for...
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Death of Dogma

For Students 9th - 10th
This article deals with the controversy around the regrowth of neurons in the central nervous system. Interesting facts relevant to neuron study.
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Organization of the Human Body

For Students 9th - 10th
An illustrated article which helps students understand the levels of organization of the human body.
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eBook
Estrella Mountain Community College

Online Biology Book: Biological Diversity: Protists: Stem Eukaryotes

For Students 9th - 10th
Through full-color images and descriptive information, learn about the evolution of the eukaryotic organisms which eventually led to the presence of protists.
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Handout
American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Carol Greider, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the influential cell research of Carol Greider, Ph.D. and Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn which has furthered our understanding of cancer and moved us one step closer to a cure. This research earned them a Nobel Prize in Medicine....
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Introduction to Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from an introduction to biology course taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The course teaches "biological function at the molecular level" with thirty-five lectures. Lectures vary in length...
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Lesson Plan
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Explore Enzyme Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this science activity, you will investigate the enzyme called catalase to find out how it helps to protect your body from cell damage.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viral Hijackers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how viruses invade host cells and hijack the hosts' cell-reproduction mechanisms in order to make new viruses, which can in turn attack additional host cells. Students also learn how the immune system responds to a viral...
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Handout
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

Merck Manual: Non Hodgkin's Lymphomas

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this website for some in-depth information regarding non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. The article gives details about the incidence rate; the classification system of lymphoma; the difference between non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners are presented with information that will allow them to recognize that yeasts are unicellular organisms that are useful to humans. In fact, their usefulness is derived from the contrast between the way yeast cells and human cells...
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Website
American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Elizabeth Blackburn, ph.d.

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography on Elizabeth Blackburn, a research scientist who is credited with discovering new understanding of telomerase and telomere biology, opening the door to new treatments for degenerative diseases, aging, as well as cancer.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring Solar Power

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This unit provides students the opportunity to explore methods engineers have devised for harnessing sunlight to generate power. Students will initially explore heat transfer and heat storage through the construction, testing, and...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's Dominant?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In a class discussion format, the teacher presents background information about basic human genetics. The number of chromosomes in both body cells and egg and sperm cells is covered, as well as the concept of dominant and recessive...

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