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DNA Questions

For Students 9th - 12th
For this forensic science worksheet, high schoolers analyze the characteristics and uses of DNA to complete 26 short answer questions.
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Genetic Testing: Modern-Day Eugenics?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students trace the history of the development of Eugenics. In this social studies activity, students read and analyze a real life case. They write a paper about what they read.
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Biological Sampling Device Using a Sea Perch

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students construct plankton nets to be towed and collect specimens to be examined and analyzed in the classroom. They develop research skills through collection of an aquatic sample. They write lab reports after interpreting, identifying...
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Why So Many Frogs?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students explain the different stages in the growth of a frog, then analyze and collect data to make generalizations about a larger population. They determine the survival rate of a population of tadpoles under controlled conditions.
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Peter Rabbit Meets Charles Darwin

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders explore evolution. They study a cartoon scenario of a rabbit population in which there is selection and a change of gene frequency. Students discuss frequencies, evolution, and speciation.
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Cougar or Human: Which Needs Protection?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers research the biology and natural history of the cougar. Students conduct Internet research to determine how cougars have been protected by humans and how it is affected by human decisions. High schoolers write about...
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The Changing Coral Reef Community Game

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students examine organisms that inhabit the coral reefs and their living requirements.  In this coral reef lesson students chart population changes and play a game.
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Invasive Species in the News

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explore how invasive species can change an environment. In this critical thinking lesson, students study how invasive animals can change an environments population. They will discuss the implications of an invasive species and...
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Can You Find a Solution?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the topic of public conservation. In this Florida panthers lesson, students read a scenario about the endangered panther and collaborate to plan a way to protect the panther population. Students also participate in a...
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Deadly Disease among Us

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils recognize that infectious diseases are a continuing problem among all human populations. They define and give examples of emerging infectious diseases. Students define and give examples of re-emerging infectious diseases.
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Life Beyond the Fifty Yard Line -- An ecological look at our backyard

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, in groups, stake out and rope off their study area, do population counts and density studies. They construct a map of the whole area, collect plants and insects, and mount and identify the organisms using keys.
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Genes, Environments, and Behavior 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how scientists study the genetic and environmental factors that interact to produce variation in behavior across a population.
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American Chestnut

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers discuss importance of American Chestnut tree, explore its value and uses, examine how it has almost become extinct, and identify ways certain groups are working to help regain American Chestnut tree population through...
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Genetic Disorders with Cultural Roots: International Insects

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students recognize that certain populations have specific genetic disorders that could benefit or harm them in their environment, work out punnett square problems and infer offspring probabilities from results, and provide advantages and...
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To Clear or Not To Clear, That Is the Question

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Pupils plan how to manage a fictional timber resource.  In this earth science lesson plan, students research the options and repercussions of logging a forested plot of land.  Pupils consider the implications of logging to the...
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Develop a Bird Feeder Watch List

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore biology by identifying animals on their school ground. In this bird species activity, students create and utilize a simple bird feeder to attract birds near their classroom at which point they observe the color, size and...
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How a Seed Grows and Who Grows It

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore biology by viewing PowerPoint presentations in class. In this plant life lesson, 1st graders identify the life cycle of a plant and how to properly plant a seed outside. Students view a movie about plant life and...
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Toilets and Neurons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of action potential and its effects on voltage-gated channels. Students compare and contrast a flushing toilet to an action. They examine its effects on the population of voltage-gated channels.
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Virus Tracker

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders will simulate the spread of a virus such as HIV through a population by "sharing" (but not drinking) the water in a plastic cup with several classmates. Although invisible, the water in a few of the cups will already be...
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Pour and Load Agarose Gels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars practice pouring an agarose gel and loading the DNA into the wells to perform a genetic analysis of variation among individuals and between populations. They electrophorese the gel overnight.
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Find the Index Case

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the tracking of viral diseases. They view experiments that compare the genome of the virus known to cause the disease from different areas. Students analyze how these scientists try to figure out the relationships...
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What is Cultural Evolution?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students comprehend what is meant by Cultural Evolution and that it primarily applies at Human Evolution, but that there are examples in higher mammals such as a killer whales, dolphins and great apes of particular groups by exploring...
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"Using Cichlids To Demonstrate the Effects of Human Activity On Ecosystems"

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Young scholars explore the freshwater ecosystem of Africa's Lake Victoria by creating a freshwater aquarium. They investigate factors affecting the aquarium's ecosystem and conduct lab activities.
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium According to Hoyle:

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars gain a feeling for the significance of the Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium without using algebra but participating in an interactice game.

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