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Stem Cell Differentiation Game

For Teachers 7th - 10th
This carad activity helps students explore detailed facts and scientific procedures around the human body and its cells. In this stem cell lesson, students utilize different colored flash cards to represent different types of human...
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A Hard Sell on Stem Cells?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine their prior knowledge of cell regeneration and therapeutic use of stem cells. After reading an article, they discover new techniques for deriving embryonic stem cells. In groups, they research on the different types of...
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Variety Is the Spice of Cellular Life

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Do you need to review animal cell structure? Investigate the ways in which different types of cells interact in a common human reflex. Your students can explore the functions of stem cells, consider various illnesses and assess stem...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stem Cells and Diabetes

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students investigate stem cells. In this science lesson, students discuss stem cells and view a video about human embryonic development. Students conduct the pulse-chase.
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Human Embryonic Stem Cells

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students use the Internet to discover information about human embryonic stem cells from the National Institutes of Health. They examine different sides of the debate to use or not to use stem cells. They can also listen to speeches given...
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The Way We Were: Embryological Development and Disease

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars use microscopes to study live fish embryos and animated diagrams of cell division on the Internet. They see that scientists rely on technology to enhance the gathering and manipulation of data. They create web pages on...
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Getting Up the Nerve

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the basics of the nervous system through an interactive program. They discover how the brain is linked to muscle movement. They can test cells through the interactive program to see how it reacts to different stimuli.
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Blood Cell Basics

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design a proportional model of blood out of red gelatin, a plastic bag, and rice. They study the components that make up blood and investigate what happens when the arteries in different scenerios. They work in pairs in order to...
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Heads or Tails? Studying Regeneration in Planaria

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students view a video on stem cells and regeneration.  For this investigative lesson students complete a worksheet while viewing the video.
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Towson University

Mystery Disease

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How did scientists determine the cause of illness before technology? Science scholars play the role of medical researcher in an engaging guided inquiry activity. Using observations, technical reading, and Punnett squares, learners...
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Two-Cell Battery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students build their own two-cell battery and determine which electrolyte solution is best suited for making a battery. They discuss background information for their experiment, construct and test their battery, and using the chart on...
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Cells, The Structural and Functional Units of Life

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils observe the general structure and organelles of plant and animal cells. Students prepare microscope slides of elodea, onion, check, and cork and identify the cells by size and shape as unicellular, multicellular, plant or animal.
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Tech Museum of Innovation

Analogous Models

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
What goes into a museum display? A secondary-level STEM project prompts groups to design a museum display for the Tech Museum of Innovation. They create an analogous, interactive model illustrating a science concept to complete the lesson.
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Mitosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the four stages of mitosis. They view a prepared slide of an onion root tip undergoing mitosis to identify the stage for each cell in view. They record the number of cells in each stage, graph the results, then calcualte...
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Introduction to the Circulatory System

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the circulatory system. In this circulatory system, 5th graders participate in five stations with different activities at each station. Students discuss their findings from each station.
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Cell Energy-Bubbling Plants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss the process of photosynthesis in plants and that oxygen is produced as a by product. They observe underwater Elodea plants "breathing" in a hands-on activity. After setting up the experiment, they observe the...
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TE Lesson: What's Dominant?

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students study the number of chromosomes in the body cells, sperm cells, and egg cells of humans. They define allele, and examine the difference between dominant and recessive alleles. They complete an activity with jelly beans that...
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Nuclear Transplants

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students model the removal of a cell nucleus and the insertion of an alternate control center. They define some of the challenges faced in this type of transplant procedure. Students discuss cloning.
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TE Activity: Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars use a purchased kit to build a solar powered car. They connect a solar photovoltaic panel to a motor which runs the car forward and backward. They determine how to wire the car to move in both directions.
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Help or Hype: The Ethics of Bio-Nanotechnology

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed Standards
Ethical concerns are not always black and white. A well-designed activity presents learners with scenarios for which ethics may come into question. Scholars learn to consider the different sides of a situation and make an unbiased...
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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Synthesis of Nickel Nanowires

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's all about the scale—they're not just wires, they're nanowires! The second lesson plan of the series builds on the oxidation-reduction experiment in the first lesson plan. Scholars synthesize a sample of nanowires using electrolysis....
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Chromosomes

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars explore genetics, chromosomes and DNA.  In this genetics lesson students design a chromosome and identify a family tree through genetics. 
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Ready for Roots

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders sort seeds and predict what conditions are needed for them to germinate. They keep the seeds moist, observe and measure their growth and graph the results. As the seeds start to grow students compare and contrast the each...
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Photosynthesis

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students are introduced to the process of photosynthesis. In groups, they test the effects of the lack of sunlight on plant leaves and compare the results with their hypothesis. They note the characteristics that plants and animals share...

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