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Radical Raptors

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students are introduced to raptors and their role in the environment. They identify three characteristics of raptors and list several types of raptors found in nature. They discuss their positive and negative experiences with raptors and...
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We Arrived 10,000 Years Ago...

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explain ways that humans migrated from Asia and settle in the Americas.  In this investigative lesson students participate in a brief archaeological demonstration and review what they learned. 
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Cancer as a Multistep Process

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze the causes of cancer from a genetic standpoint. They explain the increase in cancer with age and create a hypothesis for cancer development. They use the laws of probability as well.
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Nature vs. Nurture

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders investigate the concept of nature versus nurture in human development through this series of lessons.
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Continuing Life

For Students 9th - 12th
In this reproduction instructional activity, students will review the genetic processes in sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction by answering 6 true or false statements. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions about...
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Somatic Cell Division

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this cell division activity, students review the steps involved in a human somatic cell, from interphase to mitosis, to cytokinesis. This activity has 21 fill in the blank statements.
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Population Study and Applications Using PTC Paper

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study human population traits. In this science lesson plan, students gain an understanding of the terms dominant, recessive, haploid (monoploid), diploid, genotype, phenotype, scientific sampling, and scientific modeling as they...
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Making Babies

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders complete a human traits survey.  In this genetics lesson students read articles and fill out a worksheet on genotype and phenotypes. 
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Panther Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the Florida Panthers through a Web-quest. In this web-based lesson, students find clues that will help them to identify the habitat of the Florida Panther and the history of human activity which threatens these wild cats.
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Time Conceptualization

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers relate the number and length of generations in their living family members to the number of generations that have passed since specific events in recorded history. They then apply this time conceptualization to the number...
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Rennet Cultured Cheese

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders make cheese using two different methods. In this cheese making lesson, 5th graders make rennet cultured cheese following the step by step directions. They also make cheese using a genetically engineered bacteria that makes...
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Ecological Dilemmas

For Students 6th - 8th
In this ecological dilemmas worksheet, learners read about people's impact on ecosystems. Students complete 3 activities that require them consider the negative impact humans have on their environment.
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Science and Values: Using Science to Shape Our Future

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explore and discuss the link between values and science. They read several articles on such topics as global warming, cloning, genetically modified crops and animal testing and then identify the subjective aspect of...
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T's Alive! Or Is It?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore data on the bone, muscle, and skin of living systems and then create a list of characteristics of these systems and relate these characteristics to bone, muscle, and skin.
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Sex-Linked Genes and Disorders

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this genes worksheet, students determine how the gender of a baby is produced plus explore sex-linked disorders such as hemophilia. This worksheet has 20 fill in the blank and 8 short answer questions.
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Whose Life Is It?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students consider the implications of cloning. In this science and ethics lesson plan, students consider when cases of cloning are ethical and when they are not as they discuss scenarios and their discussion questions.
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Healthy Hearts

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research the basic concepts of heart health and disease and become an expert in an area as it relates to the heart and circulatory system. They prepare a multimedia presentation of their findings.
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Body Organization and Organ Systems

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders begin the lesson by building a house of cards. They discuss ways that building a house of cards is similar to the way the body is built: different systems work together to help the whole body work together. Students listen...
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Neuroscience for Kids

For Students 7th - 12th
In this neuroscience worksheet, students explore the Neuroscience for Kids website and then complete the questions. Students compare axons and dendrites, the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system, and the different lobes of...
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Why do we need Vitamin C in our diet? Or Why do we carry old inactive genes in our genome?

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students explore and explain how mutations in the DNA sequence of a gene may be silent or result in phenotypic change in an organism and in its offspring. They analyze how evolution and biodiversity are the result of genetic changes that...
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High School Students Experience Feelings of Being Handicapped

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Your genetics juniors will benefit from this lesson. They read an article about a Special Olympics winner and then discuss how life might be for someone who suffers from Down Syndrome.
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Biodiversity Bird Hunt

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the influence of biodiversity on human culture through the use of birds. They brainstorm words that come to mind when they think of human cultures. They describe ways that human culture and biodiversity are linked.
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Bioethics and the HGP

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students analyze case studies using the rules and principles of ethics. They comprehend which rules and principles of theics are of great importance to the Human Genome Project. Students participate in mock student hearings.
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Doggy DNA: The Power of PCR

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students listen as the teacher lectures about Polymerase Chain Reaction, and the technical information about its uses. They collect dog saliva and run/analyze a gel electrophoresis. Students use a computer to integrate information, and...

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