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The Flower and the Fly
It's like a biological "Beauty and the Beast!" The fascinating mutualism between a South African meganosed fly and a deep-throated geranium builds a case study in coevolution for your biology buffs to analyze. After reading about this...
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Investigating Our Past: Where Did Humans Come From?
Investigate the theories of human evolution. In this research based lesson, learners research and discuss how geographic isolation, interbreeding, generalization, and specialization are factors in the history of humans. Groups work...
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Charles Darwin's Hardware Shop
Using an assortment of hardware, junior biologists explore the theory of evolution. They consider how simple pieces of hardware might be changed into similar items and display their discoveries on a poster. The lesson would be...
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Introduction to Fair Trade
Young scholars investigate fair trade practices. In this economics instructional activity, students conduct collaborative research on fair trade practices, the controversies of trade, and the effects of fair trade practices. Young...
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Cell Processes and Energy - Reading/Notetaking Guide - Cell Differentiation
Written as a textbook section reading guide, this worksheet presents an empty outline on cell differentiation for biology learners to complete. There are also a few questions to answer about how cells specialize and become organized,...
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A Cell-a-bration
Young scholars identify the different types of animal and plant cells. In this cell lesson students label the different cells and their functions.
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Investigating Our Past: Where Did Humans Come From?
High schoolers brainstorm about evolution and explore the processes of evolution. In this investigative lesson students map out evolution and compare the two theories after researching them.
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57 Varieties of Interdependence
Learners examine the life of Henry J. Heinz and how he began his career in food service. For this economic history lesson,students study how Henry J. Heinz started his business. Learners will create and answer key questions that that...
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Charles Darwin's Hardware Shop
Students construct an evolutionary tree representing specialization, diversity, and selection using easily obtained materials. They use at least twenty pieces of hardware to classify then develop "evolutionary" relationships between the...