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Cpalms: Structures and Skeletons

For Students 8th Standards
In this interactive learning module, students read informational text about dinosaurs and examine paragraph structure. They will learn about different types of text structure for informational paragraphs, identify the most effective...
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Cpalms: All Circles Are Similar

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A formative assessment where students are asked to demonstrate how to prove that two circles are similar. Includes downloadable worksheet and a rubric, as well as followup questions to clarify or deepen...
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Cpalms: Measure Up! Measuring to Make a Line Plot

For Teachers 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch and show the data by making a line plot. This lesson includes an...
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Mountain Bicycles, Inc.

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: The Enlightenment Thinkers

For Students 7th - 8th
Links to a concentration game where students must match famous Enlightenment thinkers to their ideas.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Finding Civic Solutions

For Students 7th - 8th
These tutorial explains what responsible citizenship looks like and ways individuals can contribute to their communities. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Evolution: Examining the Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
Strengthen understanding of how different types of scientific evidence support the theory of evolution, including direct observation, fossils, DNA, biogeography, and comparative anatomy and embryology.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Diagramming Diversity I

For Students 9th - 10th
Identify how living organisms are classified according to their evolutionary history. Recognize how a hierarchical classification scheme can be used to classify living organisms based on physical characteristics.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Diagramming Diversity Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Expand understanding of classification with this tutorial designed to help you learn how living organisms are classified according to their evolutionary history.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Classification Using Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Identify the differences in genetic and non-genetic classification methods. Why is genetic evidence powerful for understanding evolutionary relationships among organisms? Find out!
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Climbing Around the Hominin Family Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
Identify basic trends in the evolutionary history of humans, including walking upright, brain size, jaw size, and tool use.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Identify the conditions required for natural selection and describe how it can result in changes in species over time. Follow Charles Darwin through a life of exploration, observation, and experimentation to see how he developed his ideas.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Amazing Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 8th
Explore various characteristics and adaptations that help organisms survive in different environments.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Do You Need Me to Repeat That?

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn how repeated trials during experimentation leads to more reliable results.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Some Like It Hot

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn how heat is a form of energy that can be helpful and it can come from many sources and change form.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Water in Our World

For Students 5th - 8th
Discover the processes of the water cycle and learn about its effect on weather and climate.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Natural Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
Enrich studying natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes. Know how to identify several types of natural disasters that occur in Florida, and describe how these disasters can affect people living there.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Atmospheric Blanket

For Students 6th - 8th
A tutorial exploring the atmospheric blanket to show how the atmosphere supports life and insulates the Earth.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Levels of Organization

For Students 5th - 7th
FSERL: Explanation of the hierarchical levels of living things.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: The Cell Theory

For Students 5th - 7th
Learn how the Cell Theory defines living organisms.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Classifying Living Things

For Students 4th - 7th
Learn how all living things are classified.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Scientific Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientific law is defined and contrasted to societal laws. Examples are given.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Models in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of what models are and how using them benefits science. Examples are given.
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Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Tracking Distance Over Time

For Students 5th - 7th
Using turtle migration to find the relationship when measuring distance over time.