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Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Plant or Animal?
For this lesson, students investigate and compare the needs of plants and animals. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: We Need Water
This lesson focuses on living things' need for water. Students make lemonade and learn that water can be found in liquids other than a glass of water, and is also found in plants. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Need or Want?
Students learn the difference between wanting something and needing something in order to survive. The lesson can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Bio Ed Online: Living Things and Their Needs: Animals' Needs
Students learn about the basic needs of animals by creating and observing a worm terrarium. The instructional activity and student worksheets can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Bio Ed Online: Needs of Living Things: Post Assessment
A post-assessment at the end of a unit on the needs of living things. The lesson materials can be downloaded in PDF format.
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Bio Ed Online: What Do You Know About Microbes? (Pre Assessment)
A pre-assessment at the beginning of a unit on microorganisms to see what students understand about microbes. The lesson and a set of slides can be downloaded. An included instructional video on microbes is 14 min. 44 sec.
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Magnifying and Observing Cells
In this activity, students create slides of plant cells and observe them under a microscope. The lesson plan and PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. The included instructional video on cell observation is 20 min. 44 sec.
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: The Variety and Roles of Microbes
Learners learn about the four major groups of microbes and their characteristics, and the roles microbes have in the world. The instructional activity and PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. The included instructional video on the four...
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Defending Against Microbes
Students learn about the immune system and complete a crossword puzzle to practice vocabulary. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. Includes an instructional video on immune system vocabulary terms [7:13]
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Microbes and Disease
Students learn about six diseases caused by microorganisms. A video that looks at the impact disease has had on human history and society is provided. Students work in groups to read information about one disease, then share what they...
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Hiv/aids: Modeling an Hiv Particle
Students read about the emergence of HIV/AIDS and construct a 3-D model of an HIV virus particle using the provided outline drawing. The activity materials and a set of slides can be downloaded.
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Bio Ed Online: Calculating Exponential Growth
Disease is a breakdown in structures or functions of an organism. Some diseases are the result of damage by infection by other organisms. In this lesson students read an essay, "It's All in the Numbers," about the rapid spread of HIV...
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Hiv/aids: Hiv/aids in the United States
When HIV/AIDS first emerged in North America, people were frightened by it and this led to the spread of false information about this disease. Students will learn to separate the facts from the fiction, and will create presentations on...
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Tools of Magnification
The invention of magnifiers that allow us to see things that are otherwise invisible to us has revolutionized science. In this lesson, students use several types of magnifiers to investigate magnification, and record their observations....
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Observing Different Microbes
Students prepare slides of and examine three types of common microbes using a light microscope, recording what they observe. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying instructional video is 22 min. 36 sec.
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Comparing Sizes of Microorganisms
Students create models of microbes to scale, and compare their sizes and shapes. A 'Microbe Scaling Chart' is provided. The activity and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying instructional video is 6 min. 39 sec.
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Microbes Are Everywhere
Middle schoolers learn how to safely work with microbes in petri dishes, and how quickly they can develop into colonies. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying instructional video is 10 min. 24 sec.
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Infectious Disease Case Study
In this activity, young scholars analyze a child's symptoms to determine whether she has a cold, the flu, strep throat, or a nasal allergy. They also learn the differences between viruses and bacteria. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint...
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Bio Ed Online: And Now, What Do You Know About Microbes? (Post Assessment)
A post-assessment at the end of a unit on microbes where students complete a multiple-choice quiz, and create and present a concept map of what they learned. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. An accompanying...
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Making Copies of an Hiv Particle
Students read an article about how the HIV virus replicates itself in a host cell, and the parts of an HIV particle. Includes labeled drawings of an HIV particle and of its replication cycle. The lesson materials and a set of PowerPoint...
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Bio Ed Online: The Science of Microbes: Mapping the Spread of Hiv/aids
After reading an article about how the spread of HIV/AIDS was first tracked, students act as epidemiologists to map its spread round the world. The lesson materials and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded.
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Bio Ed Online: Resources and the Environment: Is It Natural or Transformed?
In this activity, students learn about natural resources. They sort materials into two categories, whether it is natural or if it has been changed by humans.
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Bio Ed Online: Resources and the Environment: Make a Processed Food
Students learn the difference between natural and processed foods when they make a frozen banana pop dipped in chocolate sauce.
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Bio Ed Online: River Ecology
In this lesson plan students are required to simulate activities that can affect a water source, such a river as it flows from one place to another within a community.