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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: It Takes Teamwork: How Endosymbiosis Changed Life on Earth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A tutorial on symbiotic relationships that explores the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells as well as the origins of eukaryotic organelles possibly being from endosymbiotic relationship. This tutorial also offers...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Symbiosis

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify and understand the various types of symbiotic relationships. Recognize the three primary kinds of symbiosis.
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University of Hamburg

University of Hamburg: Symbiosis & Normal Microbiota

For Students 9th - 10th
A diagram of the different types of symbiosis. There are 4 examples of symbiotic relationships and explanations. Read this page and then give yourself a quiz.
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University of South Florida

Project Oceanography: Single Celled Organisms [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
For this lesson, students explore three kinds of symbiotic relationships involving unicellular organisms. They will also look more closely at the relationship between zooxanthellae and coral, and the importance of nitrogen-fixing...
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Rainforest

For Students 4th - 7th
Explains what mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism are.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Symbiotic Relationships in the Tundra

For Students 4th - 6th
Explains what mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism look like in a tundra biome.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Mutualism Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how mutualism benefits the organisms in a symbiotic relationship and what the different types of mutualism are. Provides lots of examples.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How We Think Complex Cells Evolved

For Students 9th - 10th
Adam Jacobson explains endosymbiosis, a type of symbiosis in which one symbiotic organism lives inside another. [5:42]
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PBS

Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Decomposers

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives a detailed overview of "decomposers": bacteria, fungi, and earthworms. Content includes a look at how decomposers contribute to a symbiotic relationship.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.9 Symbiosis

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the many types of symbiotic relationships in an ecosystem.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Clownfish and Sea Anemone

For Students 7th - 8th
Clownfish and sea anemone have a special relationship-a "symbiotic relationship." As you read, take notes on the specific ways in which clownfish and sea anemones contribute to their symbiotic relationship. It also offers a guided...
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Interactive
University of Nebraska

University of Nebraska State Museum: Brazil Nut Tree Community

For Students 9th - 10th
Investigate the numerous symbiotic relationships that exist between the Brazilian Nut Tree and six other organisms in its community.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Volcanoes of the Deep

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discuss how individual organisms and groups of organisms interact with each other, and research and classify symbiotic relationships between individual organisms of different species.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: What Are Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes symbiotic relationship between leguminous plants and nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Explains the mechanism the bacteria use to fix nitrogen, the chemical formula involved, and different types of nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 6.11 Fungi Symbiosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the symbiotic relationships involving fungi.
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Other

Pde Sas: Relationships Among Organisms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, young scholars compare various types of relationships among organisms (i.e., biotic interactions). Students will: explain the roles of producers and consumers, and predators and prey in an ecosystem. Explain the levels of...
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Ecology: Lichen

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing the different categories of lichens, their physical features, how they reproduce, their evolution, and important benefits lichens provide to humans. (Published: July 19, 2010)
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Endosymbiosis the Evolution of Eukaryotes

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn about the evolution of eukaryotes which is explained by the endosymbiotic theory.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Evolution of Eukaryotes

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Take a close look at the endosymbiotic theory scientists have developed to explain the evolution of eukaryotes. Understand that chloroplast and mitochondria used to...
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Always Craving Cookies? Blame It on Your Gut Bacteria

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about how the bacteria in your digestive system influence the decisions you make about the food you eat.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Coevolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Find out how coevolution can occur in nature and identify the endosymbiotic theory.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Symbiosis

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Symbiosis describes a close and long-term relationship between different species. At least one species will benefit in a symbiotic relationship. There are three...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Networked Beauty of Forests

For Students 9th - 10th
Deforestation causes more greenhouse gas emissions than all trains, planes and automobiles combined. Suzanne Simard examines how the complex, symbiotic networks of our forests mimic our own neural and social networks- and how those...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Rise of Human Computer Cooperation

For Students 9th - 10th
Brute computing force alone can't solve the world's problems. Data mining innovator Shyam Sankar explains why solving big problems is not a question of finding the right algorithm, but rather the right symbiotic relationship between...

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